Mark Loftus

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.

Quadriserv, Inc. engages in the provision of securities finance activities. The company was founded by Martin Hakker, Gregory W. DePetris, Sean McNamara, and Joseph Charles Weinhoffer and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of CME Group, Inc., Pivot, Inc. is a company that provides liquidity management and collaboration software to the financial markets. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by David Ho, Furqan Nazeeri. Pivot was acquired by CME Group, Inc. on August 01, 2012.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. provides clearance, settlement and information services. The firm offers institutional trade processing, clearing, settlement and asset, wealth management, repository and derivatives and data services. The company was founded in 1999 is headquartered in New York, NY.

Eontec Ltd. produces Java based banking software. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., onExchange, Inc. is a company that specializes in health insurance and benefits, including group medical insurance. The company is based in Lexington, MA. The company also offers services related to account exchange, cheap health insurance, and exchange email servers. onExchange was acquired by The Clearing Corp. on August 19, 2004.

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.

PolarLake’s Financial and Reference Data Management Platform enables some of the largest firms in Financial Services to acquire, manage and distribute Reference Data with speed, agility, control with embedded Security not seen before in the Reference Data Management Market. A number of leading Financial Services firms are using PolarLake to load data up to 11x faster, query securities from the store 17x faster and onboard new data feeds 20x faster than their legacy Data Management Platforms. PolarLake have implemented a truly disruptive technology based on a unique combination of XML streaming, storage and semantic web technologies. PolarLake's Data Management Platform is a post relational database solution, enabling firms to utilize semantic web technology to solve problems that relational data models were never designed to solve. The Platform also has the leading Reference Data Distribution capability in the market. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries' quadrant.

KCG Hotspot FX LLC operates as an on-line foreign exchange trading platform. It serves financial institutions, corporations, hedge funds, and individual investors. The company has offices in Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; London, the United Kingdom; Beijing, China; and Singapore, Singapore. It was founded in January, 2000 by Steve Leibowitz, Steven Reich, Howard Silverman & Barry E. Calder and is located in Jersey City, NJ.

Alphacet, Inc. provides software solutions. The firm engages in the development of software tools. It offers quantitative modeling software tools and systematic trading systems that help quantitative analysts, traders, and portfolio managers create consistent alpha, or absolute, returns. The company was founded by Rosario M. Ingargiola in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tribeca Early Stage Partners (Tribeca ESP) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Rushmore. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Sindice Ltd. develops data intelligence platform. It provides search and analytics jumpstart services that include Kibi; Solr, Lucene and Elasticsearch; custom search and analytic solutions; and knowledge graphs. The company was founded by Giovanni Tummarello and Renaud Delbru in 2011 and is headquartered in Mervue, Ireland.

Part of Fluree, Inc., ZettaLabs, Inc. is a company that provides solutions for secure, connected, and trusted data ecosystems. The company is based in Parsippany, NJ. The company's focus is on data activation and reimagining data. The company offers an extensive set of products, including an open-source JSON-LD graph database built with blockchain and semantic graph technology. The company was founded by Eluid Polanco and Sandesh Shetty, with Eluid Polanco serving as CEO since incorporation. ZettaLabs was acquired by Fluree, Inc. on September 22, 2022.