< The 2017 Tech 40

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38. Michael Cooper
Chief Technology Officer
BT Radianz
Last year: 36

The ease of access and favorable economics of cloud computing only begin to explain the revolution it is enabling, according to Michael Cooper. The 54-year-old, who has been watching the cloud unfold since he joined Radianz in 2001, says the technology provides "the ability to implement significant changes quickly, to experiment ad infinitum and with more certainty." The startup's shared telecommunications infrastructure was a precursor of cloud utilities, like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, that emerged later in that decade. Radianz's specialization in financial services made it attractive to the U.K.'s BT Group, which bought the company from Reuters Group for $175 million in 2005. BT Radianz Cloud now offers a high-performance network connecting thousands of global institutions and market participants accessing applications and services from more than 400 providers. This year BT completed the purchase of IP Trade, a provider of unified communications technology for trading floors. Cooper, BT Radianz's chief technology officer since 2010, says that "it is obligatory for anyone in this industry to focus on security and the cyberthreat landscape," noting that BT commits significant resources to cybersecurity.


 
The 2017 Tech 40

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1. Adena Friedman
NASDAQ

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2. Catherine Bessant
Bank of
America Corp.

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3. Robert Goldstein
BlackRock

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4. Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange

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5. Lance Uggla
IHS Markit

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6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg

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7. David Craig
Thomson Reuters

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8. Michael Spencer
NEX Group

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9. Don Callahan
Citigroup

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10. Elisha Wiesel
Goldman Sachs Group

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11. Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

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12. Terrence Duffy
CME Group

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13. Charles Li
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

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14. Sean Belka
Fidelity Investments

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15. Chris Concannon
CBOE Holdings

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16. Guy Chiarello
First Data Corp.

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17. Steven Lieblich
Citadel

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18. David Rutter
R3CEV

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19. Blythe Masters
Digital Asset Holdings

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20. Alfred Spector
Two Sigma Investments

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21. Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw Group

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22. Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets

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23. Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings

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24. David Gledhill
DBS Bank

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25. Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings

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26. Antoine Shagoury
State Street Corp.

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27. Peter Brown &
Robert Mercer

Renaissance Technologies

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28. Lou Eccleston
TMX Group

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29. Peter Cherecwich
Northern Trust Corp.

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30. Mike Chinn
S&P Global Market Intelligence

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31. Chris Corrado
London Stock Exchange Group

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32. Neal Pawar
AQR Capital Management

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33. Gary Norcross
Fidelity National Information Services

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34. Steven O'Hanlon
Numerix

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35. Sebastián Ceria
Axioma

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36. Brian Conlon
First Derivatives and Kx Systems

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37. Tyler Kim
MaplesFS

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38. Michael Cooper
BT Radianz

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39. Robert Schifellite
Broadridge Financial Solutions

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40. Jim Minnick
eVestment