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34. John Fawcett
Chief Executive Officer
Quantopian
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Quantitative investment firm Quantopian is built on crowdsourcing. The platform connects more than 100,000 members from 180 countries who have created more than 400,000 algorithms. "Anyone with interest in coding and a passion for finance can get paid if their algorithm is chosen to be included in our investment management business," its website says. Founded in Boston in 2011 by John Fawcett and Jean Bredeche, Quantopian has raised about $50 million in venture capital from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Spark Capital. Joining that group last summer was Point72 Ventures, an arm of Point72 Asset Management, the family office led by SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen. Concurrently, Point72 Asset Management committed to allocate up to $250 million to Quantopian's algos.
CEO Fawcett, 39, was a founder and chief technology officer of Tamale Software, developer of an investment research management system, which was acquired in 2008 by Advent Software, now part of SS&C Technologies. Quantopian CTO Bredeche also worked at Tamale and Advent. Jonathan Larkin, formerly of Hudson Bay Capital Management and BlueCrest Capital Management, joined Quantopian last June as chief investment officer.
The 2017 Trading Tech 40
1. Richard Prager BlackRock 
2. Chris Isaacson Bats Global Markets 
3. Bradley Peterson Nasdaq 
4. Brad Levy MarkitSERV 
5. Dan Keegan Citi |
6. Glenn Lesko Bloomberg Tradebook 
7. Bryan Durkin CME Group 
8. Mayur Kapani Intercontinental Exchange 
9. Mike Blum KCG Holdings 
10. Raj Mahajan Goldman Sachs Group |
11. Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional 
12. Nick Themelis MarketAxess Holdings 
13. Jenny Knott NEX Optimisation 
14. Billy Hult Tradeweb Markets 
15. Rob Park IEX Group |
16. Bill Chow & Richard Leung Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing 
17. John Mackay (Mack) Gill MillenniumIT 
18. Paul Hamill Citadel Securities 
19. Eric Noll Convergex 
20. Veronica Augustsson Cinnober Financial Technology |
21. Tyler Moeller & Joshua Walsky Broadway Technology 
22. Alasdair Haynes Aquis Exchange 
23. Gaurav Suri Arcesium 
24. Manoj Narang Mana Partners 
25. Michael Chin & Neill Penney Thomson Reuters |
26. Robert Sloan S3 Partners 
27. Anton Katz & Stephen Mock AQR Capital Management 
28. Donal Byrne Corvil 
29. Stu Taylor Algomi 
30. Alfred Eskandar Portware |
31. Steven Randich Financial Industry Regulatory Authority 
32. R. Cromwell Coulson OTC Markets Group 
33. Peter Maragos Dash Financial 
34. John Fawcett Quantopian 
35. Donald Ross III PDQ Enterprises |
36. Jennifer Nayar Vela Trading Technologies 
37. Dan Raju Tradier 
38. Susan Estes OpenDoor Trading 
39. David Mercer LMAX Exchange 
40. Oki Matsumoto Monex Group |
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