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The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Gerard Beatty

#11 Gerard Beatty, Global Head of Equities Technology, Goldman Sachs Group

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Gerard Beatty
Global Head of Equities Technology
Goldman Sachs Group
Previously Not Ranked

Trading technology is but one facet of Gerard Beatty’s 22-year career at Goldman Sachs Group. From his 1992 start designing risk management infrastructure for commodities and structured products, Beatty moved on to building the firm’s institutional web portal, followed by a buy-side stint creating an online business for the wealth management group. He then helped rebuild the investment research group’s analytics and publishing platform, launched two multistrategy hedge funds and served as co-head of technology for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Currently global head of equities technology, the 49-year-old oversees investment research systems and securities division sales and data services. New York–based Goldman has “written over 1 billion lines of code across all of our businesses,” Beatty says, noting that nearly one third of the firm’s 33,000 employees are engineers. Today, Goldman is leveraging cloud computing and open-source development to extend the reach of its platforms. A case in point is Symphony Communication Services, a messaging platform built in collaboration with other firms that is now being rolled out to the broader financial services community. “Companies that see themselves as technology companies and embrace digital platforms will continue to unlock new sources of value for their clients and grow market share,” says Beatty, a University of Vermont graduate whose first software engineering job was designing embedded controllers for cardiac equipment.


The 2015 Trading Technology 40

1
2
3
4
5
Kevin Kometer
CME Group
Richard Prager
BlackRock
Raymond Tierney III
Bloomberg Tradebook
Jonathan Ross
KCG Holdings
Charles Vice
Intercontinental Exchange
6
7
8
9
10
Chris Isaacson
BATS Global Markets
Bradley Peterson
Nasdaq OMX Group
Brad Levy
MarkitSERV
Dan Keegan
Citi
Ronald DePoalo
Fidelity Institutional
11
12
13
14
15
Gerard Beatty
Goldman Sachs Group
Gerald O'Connell
CBOE Holdings
Brenda Hoffman
TMX Group
Billy Hult
Tradeweb Markets
Nicholas Themelis
MarketAxess Holdings
16
17
18
19
20
Bina Kalola
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Gil Mandelzis
EBS-BrokerTec (ICAP)
Steven Randich
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Jerry Dobner
GFI Group
Michael Liberman
BlueMountain Capital Management
21
22
23
24
25
Bill Chow and Richard Leung
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Jamie Selway
Investment Technology Group
Brad Katsuyama
IEX Group
John Mackay (Mack) Gill
MillenniumIT
Jamil Nazarali
Citadel Execution Services
26
27
28
29
30
Robert Cornish
International Securities Exchange
Tyler Moeller andJoshua Walksy
Broadway Technology
Rishi Nangalia
REDI Holdings
Manoj Narang
Tradeworx,
Thesys Technologies
Oki Matsumoto
Monex Group
31
32
33
34
35
Alasdair Haynes
Aquis Exchange
Veronica Augustsson
Cinnober Financial Technology
Stu Taylor
Algomi
Luís Otávio Saliba Furtado
BM&FBovespa
Tal Cohen
Chi-X Global Holdings
36
37
38
39
40
Donal Byrne
Corvil
R. Cromwell Coulson
OTC Markets Group
Alfred Eskandar
Portware
Richard Korhammer
SR Labs
Hazem Dawani
OptionsCity Software


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