< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow

The Nasdaq Stock Market may have lost the big new listing of last year, the $25 billion Alibaba Group Holding IPO, to the New York Stock Exchange, but it’s still sharpening its edge as a growth- and tech-stock-oriented marketplace — of which it is itself a member. Nasdaq-listed Nasdaq OMX Group, with a market cap of $8 billion and a technology solutions business that generated $403 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2014, “has always been associated with innovative tech companies,” notes executive vice president and chief information officer Bradley Peterson, 55. With start-ups tending to stay private longer, Nasdaq increasingly wants to build relationships in the pre-IPO phase to “help these companies control how they’re structured and when to time a public exit,” explains Peterson, who was CIO at eBay and Charles Schwab Corp. before taking the Nasdaq position two years ago. A case in point is ExactEquity, a cloud-based capital management tool introduced last July that allows companies to link to Nasdaq Private Market for full tracking of primary and secondary share transactions. Nasdaq is assisting international customers — exchanges in Egypt, Indonesia and the Philippines are recent buyers of its technology — with similar strategic concerns. “We’re with these companies,” Peterson says. “We’re talking to them and starting to see that common thread” of nurturing companies while they are private and keeping them local when they go public.

See also Peterson's profile in the 2012 Tech 50.

 
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 Zef Nikolla	8	9	10
Chris Isaacson BATS Global Markets	Bradley Peterson Nasdaq OMX Group	Brad Levy MarkitSERV	Dan Keegan Citi	Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional
11 Mark McQueen	12	13	14	15 Margaret Fox
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 Martin H. Simon	19 Todd Plitt	20 A.E. Fletcher Photography
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 Photographer:http://www.digitalh	23	24 Dennis Degnan	25 Paul Elledge
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 Picasa	29 Andrew Harrer	30 Takashi KATO
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 unknown	33 Douglas Kurn	34 Luludi/LUZ	35 William Neumann Photography
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