The 2014 Tech 50: Hauke Stars

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Hauke Stars

Head of Information Technology, Market Data and Services

Deutsche Börse

(PNR)

Two decades in increasingly senior technology industry positions, including running Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Swiss business from 2007 to 2012, didn’t quite prepare Hauke Stars for the risk management and compliance requirements that she sees as unique to financial services. “It’s not only about delivering the fastest networks or being the first to launch a new application,” she says. Stars, 47, got up to speed quickly after being hired straight onto the five-person executive board of Deutsche Börse, the world’s second-largest exchange group by revenue, in December 2012. She oversaw the merger of — and now heads — the combined market data and IT services divisions, which generated 19 percent of the group’s €1.9 billion ($2.6 billion) in revenue last year. Currently focusing on analytic services and automated regulatory reporting capabilities (which Deutsche enhanced with its January acquisition of London-based Impendium Systems) as key drivers of growth, Stars notes, “It’s interesting how the rapid growth of technology has impacted the need for regulation, and now regulatory changes will drive the kinds of IT advances we see in the future.” She’s also pushing technology and data services as vehicles for boosting the group’s business in Asia. Last year Deutsche Börse licensed its T7 derivatives-trading platform to Mumbai’s stock exchange and entered into a market data and analytics partnership with the Indian bourse.

The 2014 Tech 50Click name to view ranking profile.

1 Dave Cross	1	3 IAN CURCIO 2011	4 FayFoto/Boston	5 Teri Pengilley
Thomas Secunda Bloomberg	Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange	Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.	Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments	Lance Uggla Markit
6	7	8 Photographer:Charlie Simokaitis	9	10 Mark McQueen
Robert Goldstein BlackRock	David Craig Thomson Reuters	Phupinder Gill CME Group	Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group	R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group
11	12	13	14	15 Christopher Elston
Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures	Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse	Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings	Michael Spencer ICAP	Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
16	17	18 Todd Plitt	19	20
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
21 Larry Lettera/ Camera 1	22	23	24 XT	25
Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ	Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets	Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings	Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings	Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group
26 Production	27 Wayne R. Martin	28	29 Thorsten Jansen	30 Adam B. Auel
Christopher Perretta State Street Corp.	Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co.	Peter Carr Morgan Stanley	Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse	Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp.
31	32	33 Paul Elledge	34	35 Stephen Brashear
David Gershon SuperDerivatives	Chris Corrado MSCI	Joseph Squeri Citadel	Tanuja Randery BT Global Services	John Bates Software AG
36	37	38	39 Photo Credit: Kevin Irby	40
Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group	David Gledhill DBS Bank	Simon Garland Kx Systems	Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab	Jeff Parker EidoSearch
41	42 Jeff Smith Photo	43	44	45
Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank	Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates	Tyler Kim MaplesFS	Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp.	Jim Minnick eVestment
46	47	48 tomohisa ichiki	49 David Poultney	50 A.E. Fletcher Photography
Steven O’Hanlon Numerix	Sebastián Ceria Axioma	Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute	Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners	Mas Nakachi OpenGamma