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The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Charles Vice

#5 Charles Vice, President and Chief Operating Officer, Intercontinental Exchange

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Charles Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer
Intercontinental Exchange
Previously Not Ranked

NYSE Euronext, which Intercontinental Exchange acquired in November 2013 for $11 billion, was “a very complex, difficult-to-manage organization,” says Charles Vice. “Our goal was to simplify it.” A member of CEO Jeffrey Sprecher’s management team since Atlanta-based ICE’s inception in May 2000, COO since 2001 and president since 2005, Vice played a major role in postmerger processes that were as much about melding “very different cultures” as they were technical — and quick. ICE, which now has no chief technology officer (longtime CTO Edwin Marcial, No. 1 last year, left the company in October), by summer 2014 had sold off parts of the NYSE Technologies unit and absorbed other data center and market data businesses. Vice, 51, led a team that between August and November integrated London-based Liffe — the NYSE Euronext derivatives affiliate that most closely complemented ICE’s platforms and that the COO characterizes as “our highest interest” in the acquisition. Staying on the acquisition trail, ICE bought security valuation and analytics company SuperDerivatives for $350 million in October and a majority stake in the Holland Clearing House in December, moves that Sprecher said “will accelerate our growth initiatives related to risk management and data services.” Meanwhile, the venerable New York Stock Exchange had a banner year, with an industry-leading $182 billion in proceeds from 545 IPOs, and a new trading platform will be built this year. Vice admits to being surprised by the value of the brand in the listings business: “A brand like NYSE needs to be spotlit.”

The 2015 Trading Technology 40

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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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