FX Alliance Inc. Hires CIO Steve Rubinow
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
NEW YORK, NY, April 2, 2012 - FX Alliance Inc. ("FXall") (NYSE: FX - News), the
world's leading electronic foreign exchange platform, announced today that Steve
Rubinow has joined the company as Chief Information Officer. Based in FXall's
New York headquarters, Mr. Rubinow is responsible for leading the company's
technology operations globally, and reports directly to Phil Weisberg, Chief
Executive Officer of FXall.
Mr. Rubinow joins FXall as a leading technology executive with more than 25
years of experience across a variety of industries. For the past six years, Mr.
Rubinow served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of NYSE
Euronext, Inc. and five years prior to that as Chief Technology Officer of
Archipelago Holdings, Inc, before its merger with the New York Stock Exchange
("NYSE") in 2006, where he was responsible for re-architecting and implementing
the exchange's global IT organization, technology platform and electronic
trading capabilities as well as the exchange's new state-of-the-art data centers
and global innovation. Additionally, he led the post-merger technology and
organizational integration of NYSE and Euronext. Prior to Archipelago, Mr.
Rubinow worked in Silicon Valley as Senior Vice President and Chief
Information/Technology Officer at NextCard, Inc., a leading Internet provider of
consumer credit that had a successful IPO in 1999. Previously he was also Chief
Information Officer of AdKnowledge, a leading online advertising company, and
vice president of corporate management information systems at Fidelity
Investments, where he developed systems that provided company and investment
industry intelligence for company management and evaluated new companies as
potential candidates for investment by Fidelity Ventures. Earlier in his career,
he held senior roles with Budget Rent a Car and Quaker Oats. He served on the
adjunct faculty in Computer Science at DePaul University from 1986 to 1994,
where he taught undergraduate and graduate classes in database technology and
analytic systems.
Phil Weisberg, CEO of FXall, commented, "Steve's experience and strong
familiarity with the electronic trading industry makes him a great addition to
the FXall team. We are delighted to have someone of his caliber take on the
position as our CIO. Steve's ability to combine a deep understanding of the
capital markets with the competency to manage the technology infrastructure that
is vital to powering today's global financial trading will be highly valuable in
driving FXall forward. At our core, we serve customers with the very best
technology to facilitate superior FX execution, and I look forward to working
with Steve to further build and improve this already successful platform."
"FXall is a technologically innovative company that connects its loyal customers
to the foreign exchange marketplace through a comprehensive suite of execution
capabilities and tools," said Rubinow. "I very much look forward to building
upon the achievements that Phil and his team have made over more than a decade."
Steve earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry and a M.B.A. at the
University of Illinois as well as a M.S. in Computer Science at DePaul
University. He was named by Computerworld as one of 2012's "Premier 100 IT
Leaders." Also, he was featured as the subject of one chapter of the book CIOs
at Work by Ed Yourdon (2011), recognized as one of the top 10 CIOs on Wall
Street in 2010 by Securities Technology Monitor magazine, recognized as one of
the top CIOs on Wall Street in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Wall Street &
Technology magazine, and received an InfoWorld Award as leader of one of the top
100 IT projects of 2009. He is on the advisory boards of the University of
Illinois College of Business Administration, the DePaul University College of
Computing and Digital Media, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science
and Technology) and Northwestern University's Kellogg Technology Summit. He is a
frequent speaker on a variety of business and technology topics at conferences
all over the world.
About FXall
FXall is the leading independent global provider of electronic foreign exchange
trading solutions, with over 1,000 institutional clients worldwide. FXall's
offices in New York, Boston, Washington, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, Tokyo,
Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai serve the needs of active traders, asset managers,
corporate treasurers, banks, broker-dealers and prime brokers. For more
information on FXall, visit www.fxall.com.
Contacts:
U.S. Contact
Jim Cheston
FTI Consulting
Telephone: +1 (212) 850-5675
Mobile: +1 (646) 641-7728
jim.cheston(at)fticonsulting.com
U.K. Contact
Dafina Grapci-Penney
Greentarget
Telephone: +44 20 7324 5486
Mobile: + 44 752 533 5733
dafina.grapci-penney(at)greentarget.co.uk
This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf of
Thomson Reuters clients. The owner of this announcement warrants that:
(i) the releases contained herein are protected by copyright and
other applicable laws; and
(ii) they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and
originality of the information contained therein.
Source: FX Alliance, Inc via Thomson Reuters ONE
[HUG#1599020]
Datum: 02.04.2012 - 14:11 Uhr
Sprache: Deutsch
News-ID 131048
Anzahl Zeichen: 6111
contact information:
Town:
New York
Kategorie:
Business News
Diese Pressemitteilung wurde bisher 379 mal aufgerufen.
Die Pressemitteilung mit dem Titel:
"FX Alliance Inc. Hires CIO Steve Rubinow"
steht unter der journalistisch-redaktionellen Verantwortung von
FX Alliance, Inc (Nachricht senden)
Beachten Sie bitte die weiteren Informationen zum Haftungsauschluß (gemäß TMG - TeleMedianGesetz) und dem Datenschutz (gemäß der DSGVO).
