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30. Alfred Eskandar
Chief Executive Officer
Portware
Last year: 33

Today many financial technologists have artificial intelligence in their toolbox. Not so in 2012, when Alfred Eskandar, formerly head of corporate strategy at buy-side trading platform company Liquidnet Holdings, joined New York–based Portware and set it apart with an AI component that raised the level of sophistication of its execution management system. As of November 2016, with the release of Portware Enterprise version 6.4, the "thinking EMS" offers real-time analytic and decision support enhancements that, according to the 43-year-old CEO, amount to "a virtual trading assistant" supporting complex, global strategies across multiple asset classes.

With more than $10 trillion in institutional assets running on its software, up from $3 trillion in 2012, Portware became part of FactSet Research Systems in an October 2015 acquisition. A year later FactSet bought CYMBA Technologies and Vermilion Software, U.K.-based providers of order management and client reporting systems, respectively. FactSet CEO Philip Snow says the company aims "to more holistically address the portfolio life cycle through both innovation and acquisition," and there is a clear implication that more moves are to come.


 
The 2017 Trading Tech 40

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1. Richard Prager
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2. Chris Isaacson
Bats Global Markets

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3. Bradley Peterson
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4. Brad Levy
MarkitSERV

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5. Dan Keegan
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6. Glenn Lesko
Bloomberg Tradebook

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7. Bryan Durkin
CME Group

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8. Mayur Kapani
Intercontinental Exchange

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9. Mike Blum
KCG Holdings

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10. Raj Mahajan
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11. Ronald DePoalo
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12. Nick Themelis
MarketAxess Holdings

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13. Jenny Knott
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14. Billy Hult
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15. Rob Park
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16. Bill Chow & Richard Leung
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17. John Mackay (Mack) Gill
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18. Paul Hamill
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19. Eric Noll
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20. Veronica Augustsson
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21. Tyler Moeller & Joshua Walsky
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22. Alasdair Haynes
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23. Gaurav Suri
Arcesium

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24. Manoj Narang
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25. Michael Chin & Neill Penney
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26. Robert Sloan
S3 Partners

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27. Anton Katz & Stephen Mock
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28. Donal Byrne
Corvil

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29. Stu Taylor
Algomi

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30. Alfred Eskandar
Portware

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31. Steven Randich
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

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32. R. Cromwell Coulson
OTC Markets Group

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33. Peter Maragos
Dash Financial

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34. John Fawcett
Quantopian

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35. Donald
Ross III
PDQ Enterprises

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36. Jennifer Nayar
Vela Trading Technologies

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37. Dan Raju
Tradier

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38. Susan Estes
OpenDoor Trading

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39. David Mercer
LMAX Exchange

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40. Oki Matsumoto
Monex Group