< The 2017 Tech 40

11. Michael Bodson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Last year: 14

Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., labeled by regulators as a systemically important financial market utility, processes $1.5 quadrillion worth of securities transactions a year. It is fixated on accuracy, efficiency, security, and risk mitigation in posttrade operations, yet it is hard to keep a conversation with president and chief executive officer Michael Bodson from veering into cloud computing, machine learning, or the distributed-ledger technology of the blockchain. The last was seen as an existential threat to clearinghouses like DTCC before Bodson began to have his say. In his letter in DTCC's 2016 annual report, the 59-year-old refuted "the overheated rhetoric that predicted our demise" and wrote "now many of the key blockchain players want to engage with us on initiatives." At the forefront of blockchain experimentation and deployment, New York–based, industry-owned DTCC has invested in Digital Asset Holdings (Bodson is a board member) and joined collaborative standards groups Hyperledger Project and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. In an interview, he says, "We are strong believers that the distributed ledger will play an important role in the financial industry in the future."

 
The 2017 Tech 40

1. Adena Friedman NASDAQ 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. 3. Robert Goldstein BlackRock 4. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange Finding, Applying for, and Winning Grant Funding: Tips for Nonprofits Sponsored by Fidelity Investments April 29, 2025 5. Lance Uggla IHS Markit

6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 7. David Craig Thomson Reuters 8. Michael Spencer NEX Group 9. Don Callahan Citigroup 10. Elisha Wiesel Goldman Sachs Group

11. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 12. Terrence Duffy CME Group 13. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing 14. Sean Belka Fidelity Investments 15. Chris Concannon CBOE Holdings

16. Guy Chiarello First Data Corp. 17. Steven Lieblich Citadel 18. David Rutter R3CEV 19. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings 20. Alfred Spector Two Sigma Investments

21. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw Group 22. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 23. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 24. David Gledhill DBS Bank 25. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings

26. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp. 27. Peter Brown & Robert Mercer Renaissance Technologies 28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 29. Peter Cherecwich Northern Trust Corp. 30. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence

31. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group 32. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management 33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services 34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma

36. Brian Conlon First Derivatives and Kx Systems 37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS 38. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 39. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions 40. Jim Minnick eVestment