Bruce Ferguson

Penson Worldwide, Inc. is a provider of a broad range of critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the global financial services industry. Its products and services include securities and futures clearing and execution, financing and cash management technology and other related offerings, and provide tools and services to support trading in multiple markets, asset classes and currencies. Penson Worldwide was founded by Phil A. Pendergraft and Daniel P. Son in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Nexa Technologies, Inc. provides online and direct access trading solutions. It offers multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, an Order Management System (OMS), comprehensive data and market access to European and North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs. The company was founded by Eric Stoop in 1999 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.