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The 2015 Tech 50: Antoine Shagoury
The London Stock Exchange Group COO climbs to No. 18 on this year’s Tech 50 ranking.
Acquisitions are by definition heavy lifting for technology executives responsible for postmerger integrations. A string of such projects has kept Antoine Shagoury hopping since he joined London Stock Exchange Group as chief information officer in 2010 — none more strategically transformational than the May 2013 purchase of clearinghouse operator LCH.Clearnet. “This is that nirvana piece for us,” says the 45-year-old, who added to his CIO title that of chief operating officer in May 2012. “We’re closing the loop on providing a single source of clearing solutions, not only for the LCH businesses but also so we can expand that further, internally and externally, as a third-party service provider.” Now with a portfolio that includes world-class posttrade capabilities alongside core exchange operations — the latter platforms were unified on Shagoury’s watch using technology from Sri Lanka–based MillenniumIT, which LSE has owned since 2009 — the COO-CIO looks to share technologies as much as possible across businesses to reduce costs and time spent on product development. Following an “anything as a service” philosophy, LSE has licensed technologies to bourses in Hong Kong, Singapore, Peru and elsewhere. On the R&D front Shagoury, a former American Stock Exchange CIO, is exploring natural language processing, machine learning, cognitive computing and adaptive heuristics. “Natural language processing gives us the engine to interpret market scenarios,” he says. “And with a transition into machine learning, we can be predictive and proactive about how we react to traditional investment scenarios as well as extreme anomalies” that might foreshadow market crashes.
See the full story, “The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge.”
 1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange  2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.  3. Phupinder Gill CME Group  4. Lance Uggla Markit  5. Robert Goldstein BlackRock |
 6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg  7. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group  8. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures  9. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments  10. Adena Friedman Nasdaq OMX Group |
 11. David Craig Thomson Reuters  12. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings  13. Michael Spencer ICAP  14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.  15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing |
 16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets  17. Christopher Perretta State Street Corp.  18. Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group  19. Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co.  20. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co. |
 21. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets  22. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings  23. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings  24. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp.  25. Frank Bisignano First Data Corp. |
 26. John Marcante Vanguard Group  27. Joseph Squeri Citadel  28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group  29. Claude Honegger Credit Suisse  30. Chris Corrado MSCI |
 31. David Gledhill DBS Bank  32. John Bates Software AG  33. Michael Cooper BT Radianz  34. Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group  35. Sunil Hirani trueEX Group |
 36. Hauke Stars Deutsche BÖrse  37. Brian Conlon First Derivatives  38. Jim Minnick eVestment  39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais  40. Tyler Kim MaplesFS |
 41. Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp.  42. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix  43. Sebastián Ceria Axioma  44. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America  45. Stephane Dubois Xignite |
 46. Mazy Dar OpenFin  47. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software  48. Mas Nakachi OpenGamma  49. John Lehner BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group  50. Jock Percy Perseus |