Michael Rude

Barra LLC provides investment analytics, trading solutions and software to investment professions. The company provides risk management technology for investment professionals. Barra was founded by Barr Rosenberg and Andrew Rudd in 1975 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

NYFIX, Inc. provides electronic trading solutions. It provides value-added informational and analytic services and powerful tools for measuring execution quality. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ness Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of digital transformation and custom software product engineering services. It offers cloud and platform engineering, engineering automation, big data and analytics, and digital operations. The company was founded by Morris Wolfson, Raviv Zoller, and Tsvika Ben Porat in 1999 and is headquartered in Teaneck, NJ.

AcadiaSoft, Inc. develops and markets derivatives and collateral management solutions for institutional investors. It allows market participants to communicate vital information on exposures, commitments and adjustments between counterparties in a complete, verifiable and secure manner. The firm solutions include MarginSphere, ProtoColl, Exposure Manager for IM, and Service Platform. The company was founded by Craig Welch in 2009 and is headquartered in Norwell, MA.

FinancialCAD Corp. provides software tools for the analysis of capital markets financial instruments and derivatives. Its clients include banks, asset management firms, and insurance companies. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Surrey, Canada

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of News Corp., Dow Jones Telerate, Inc. sells business magazines and newspapers. The company is based in New York, NY.

Radianz Americas, Inc. provides information services to financial industries. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC engages in the provision of investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

LiquidityBook LLC provides cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions to some of the largest and most sophisticated firms in the industry. The company is based in New York, NY. The platform is easily configurable and is enhanced daily with client requests, ensuring that it adapts and scales as the firms grow. The company has been a disruptive force in the market for nearly 20 years and employs a client-centric business model with no hidden fees. LiquidityBook's scalable trade management solutions enable buy-side, sell-side, and outsourced trading firms to connect, track, and execute. LiquidityBook was founded in 2005 by Kevin Samuel, who has been the CEO since then.

Sand Hill East LLC (Sand Hill East) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Andrew William Fraser Brown and Josh Burwick. The firm is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Refinitiv US Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of financial market data analysis services. It offers solutions for investment banking, risk management, corporate treasury, Islamic finance, investing and advisory, market data, financial crime, cloud computing, trading, regulatory service, wealth management, and sustainable finance. The company was founded by David William Craig and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Firestartr LLP (Firestartr) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by by Anil Hansjee, Richard Mortimer Muirhead and Chipper Boulas. The firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

D2IQ, Inc. provides open-source software services. The firm solutions include ksphere, mesosphere, datasphere, services & support, and training. Its products include kommander, konvoy, dispatch, MKE, DC/OS, data science engine, and KUDO. The company was founded by Tobias Knaup, Florian Leibert and Benjamin Hindman in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BioCatch Ltd. provides cyber security solutions. It offers behavioral biometric, authentication, and malware detection solutions for mobile and web applications. The firms products include behavioral authentication, remote administration tool detection, and fraudulent and criminal activity detection. The company was founded Benny Rosenbaum, Tal Bakish, Uri Rivner and Avi Turgeman in 2011 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Alacra, Inc. develops workflow applications for financial institutions and professional service firms. Its products include business research services which offer custom analysis and research reports by request. The firm’s compliance services which help clients reduce the cost of effective compliance with KYC/AML requirements. The company was founded by Steven Goldstein and Michael Angle in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Algomi Ltd. operates as a software company. It provides technology to bond market participants, to improve workflow and liquidity by data aggregation, pre-trade information analysis, and execution facilitation.The company was founded by Stu Taylor, Usman Khan, Robert Howes and Michael Schmidt in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

GoldenSource Corp. provides enterprise data management software. The firm provides preconfigured connectivity and data integration interface which applies into EDM applications. It also provides solutions for the derivatives and fixed income markets. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Droplets was founded in March 2000 by veteran software entrepreneurs with over 15 years experience working and innovating together. Along with the entire Droplets team, they bring a history of unique technology development and focused client service to a growing list of customers and corporate strategic partners. Its goal is to meet the needs of enterprises who seek more efficient ways to deliver highly functional and scalable applications over the Internet. Through Droplets and the Universal User Interface, companies can provide dynamic, accessible applications across devices, and at the same time minimize the infrastructure costs of development, deployment and upgrades. Droplets has offices in Texas and Seoul, Korea. Its growing roster of corporate strategic partners includes Borland, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sun Microsystems.

Trilio Data, Inc. engages in the development of a software provides data protection through point-in-time capture, storage, and application recovery. It focuses on providing native data protection for OpenStack clouds and Red Hat Virtualization hypervisors. The company was founded by, David S. Safaii, Giri Basava, Murali Balcha, and Sanjay Baronia in 2013 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.