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The 2014 Tech 50: John Bates

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John Bates
Chief Technology Officer, Intelligent Business Operations and Big Data
Software AG

At the CeBIT technology extravaganza in Hannover, Germany, in March, both U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stopped by the exhibit of Software AG. “That’s how big we are,” says John Bates of the €973 million ($1.3 billion)-in-revenue company. Outside Europe and particularly in capital markets, Darmstadt-based Software AG doesn’t have the brand recognition of the much larger German enterprise-software provider SAP. Bates, 44, and the intelligent-business-operations platform he oversees are changing that. While teaching at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s, Bates was an inventor of complex-event processing, now ubiquitous in algorithmic trading and other high-performance computing operations. Apama, the CEP company he founded, was acquired in 2005 by Bedford, Massachusetts–based Progress Software Corp., where Bates was chief technology officer until the July 2013 sale of Apama to Software AG. Still a CTO, based in the Boston area but spending much of his time on the road, the British-born computer scientist is a key player in Software AG’s push to deliver “smart big data”solutions. Along with the mark Apama and its analytics have made in e-trading, compliance and regulatory surveillance, other Software AG properties, such as Terracotta (in-memory databases and low-latency messaging, acquired in 2011) and JackBe (real-time visualization, 2013), constitute “a new paradigm for high-velocity capital markets applications,” says Bates.

The 2014 Tech 50

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Thomas Secunda
Bloomberg
Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange
Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.
Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments
Lance Uggla
Markit
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10
Robert Goldstein
BlackRock
David Craig
Thomson Reuters
Phupinder Gill
CME Group
Anna Ewing
NASDAQ
OMX Group
R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group
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Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures
Dan Mathisson
Credit Suisse
Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings
Michael Spencer
ICAP
Michael Bodson
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corp.
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Joe Ratterman
BATS Global Markets
Dominique Cerutti
Euronext
Ron Levi
GFI Group
Gaurav Suri
D.E. Shaw Group
Charles Li
Hong Kong
Exchanges and
Clearing
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Lou Eccleston
S&P Capital IQ
Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets
Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings
Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings
Antoine
Shagoury

London Stock
Exchange Group
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Christopher
Perretta

State Street Corp.
Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.
Peter Carr
Morgan Stanley
Hauke Stars
Deutsche Börse
Robert Alexander
Capital One
Financial Corp.
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David Gershon
SuperDerivatives
Chris Corrado
MSCI
Joseph Squeri
Citadel
Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services
John Bates
Software AG
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Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group
David Gledhill
DBS Bank
Simon Garland
Kx Systems
Cristóbal Conde
FinTech Innovation Lab
Jeff Parker
EidoSearch
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Kim Fournais &
Lars Seier Christensen

Saxo Bank
Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates
Tyler Kim
MaplesFS
Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.
Jim Minnick
eVestment
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Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix
Sebastián Ceria
Axioma
Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute
Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners
Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma

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