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Board of Directors

Director Independent Audit Committee Compensation Committee Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee Technology Committee
Maureen O'Hara, Chairman
Yes
M
C
M
 
Robert C. Gasser
No
       
J. William Burdett
Yes
 
M
M
 
Christopher V. Dodds          
Timothy L. Jones
Yes
M
   
C
Robert L. King
Yes
C
 
C
M
Kevin J.P. O'Hara
Yes
 
M
 
M
Brian J. Steck
Yes
 
M
M
 

 

C = Chairperson
M = Member

Biographies

Maureen O’Hara has been the Chairman of our Board of Directors since May 2007 and a director since January 2003. She was our Lead Director from January 2005 until May 2007. She is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. She holds degrees from the University of Illinois (B.S. Economics) and Northwestern University (M.S. Economics and Ph.D. Finance). In December 2006, Ms. O’Hara joined the board of directors of NewStar Financial Inc. Ms. O’Hara joined the faculty at Cornell in 1979. She has had visiting appointments at UCLA, the London Business School, the University of New South Wales, Cambridge University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Ms. O’Hara’s research focuses on issues in market microstructure, and she is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the book Market Microstructure Theory (Blackwell: 1995). In addition, Ms. O’Hara publishes widely on a broad range of topics in finance, including banking, law and finance, and experimental economics. She has served as President of the Western Finance Association and recently served as President of the American Finance Association.

Robert C. Gasser has been a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company since October 4, 2006. Mr. Gasser was Chief Executive Officer of NYFIX, Inc. (“NYFIX”), a global electronic trade execution firm, from November 2005 to September 2006. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Gasser served as Chief Executive Officer of NYFIX Millennium LLC, a subsidiary of NYFIX, and President of NYFIX Transaction Services Inc. and NYFIX Clearing Corporation. Mr. Gasser was Head of U.S. Equity Trading at JP Morgan from 1999 to 2001.

J. William Burdett has been a director since July 2001 and was non-executive director of ITG Australia Ltd., a subsidiary of ITG between December 2006 to April 2007. In 2006, Mr. Burdett joined the board of IRESS Market Technology Ltd., a leading provider of market data, financial planning and order routing services to the equities markets in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. From 1988 until March 2001, Mr. Burdett was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Burdett Buckeridge Young Group (“BBY”), which is comprised of the two Australian broker/dealer companies; BBY and Australian Clearing Services. From 1970 until 1987, Mr. Burdett was a partner and director of A.C. Goode & Co., one of the largest stock-brokering/investment banking companies in Australia. Mr. Burdett was a non-executive director of BBY and ITG Australia Ltd. from November 2000 through November 2002.

Christopher V. Dodds has been a director since June 2008. Mr. Dodds currently serves as a Senior Advisor at TPG Capital, a private equity firm. Mr. Dodds also serves on the Board of Directors at Charles Schwab Bank, Baron Capital Inc., and Cost Plus Inc. From 1986 to 2007, Mr. Dodds held several positions at the Charles Schwab Corporation. Most recently, from 1999 to 2007, Mr. Dodds served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Schwab, responsible for managing the company’s financial affairs during periods of growth, retrenchment, and profitability. Before being named Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Dodds held several key positions at Schwab including Corporate Controller and Corporate Treasurer. Prior to his experience at Schwab, Mr. Dodds served as a financial analyst for several firms including American Hawaii Cruises, Exxon Company USA, and the Gulf Oil Corporation.

Timothy L. Jones has been a director since March 2005.  Since October 2007, Mr. Jones has been Chief Executive Officer and director of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, an advisory  non-departmental public body of the Department for Work and Pensions within the United Kingdom government.  From December 2002 to January 2005, Mr. Jones was the Chief Executive Officer of Simpay Limited, a mobile phone payment system company. In November 2004, Mr. Jones joined the board of Groves Malthouse Management Limited, a real estate management company. Mr. Jones co-founded Purseus, a company developing a new architecture for correspondent banking, and was Chief Executive Officer of Purseus from April 2000 to November 2002. Prior to that, for 17 years, Mr. Jones was at National Westminster Bank PLC where he held various positions in the Operations, Information Technology Strategy and Policy, Mondex, Electronic Markets and Retail Banking Services divisions, eventually becoming a Managing Director in 1996 and Chief Executive of the retail banking division in 1999.

Robert L. King has been a director since June 1994. Since July 2005, Mr. King has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Click Sales, Inc., an online retailer of digital download products. From October 2001 through May 2004, Mr. King was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Requisite Technology, Inc., which helps companies to create, organize, and manage product and service information for efficient web-based finding, buying, and selling. Mr. King is currently a Director of Clarity Imaging Technologies, Inc. and Office Source. Mr. King was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Express, Inc., a distributor of office and computer supplies, from 1998 to 2001. Mr. King has also been a director of Corporate Express, Inc. and served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Corporate Express, Inc. from 1993 until 1998. Prior to 1993, Mr. King was employed by FoxMeyer Corporation, a distributor of health and pharmaceutical products, where he was Chief Executive Officer from 1989 to 1993, President from 1988 to 1993, and Chief Operating Officer from 1988 to 1989.

Kevin J. P. O’Hara has been a director since January 2007. From May, 2006 to July, 2007, Mr. O’Hara served as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of CBOT Holdings, Inc. Previously, he served as Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Archipelago Holdings, Inc. from 1999 to 2006 and served as Executive Vice President and Co-General Counsel of NYSE Group, Inc. in 2006. Prior to joining Archipelago, Mr. O’Hara worked in Romania and Lithuania from 1995 to 1999 on the development of legal, regulatory and technology infrastructure of emerging capital markets. He served as Senior Attorney in Bucharest, Romania, for Financial Markets International, Inc. and Project Director in Vilnius, Lithuania, and project Manager on other regional projects while based in the United States for the Pragma Corporation. Prior to his international experience, Mr. O’Hara worked in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., as Senior Counsel from 1994 to 1995 and as Staff Attorney from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Mr. O’Hara served as Special Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1988 to 1991, he practiced corporate and commercial litigation at the Chicago law firm of Ross & Hardies, now McGuire Woods Ross & Hardies. He previously served from 2003 to 2005 on the board of managers of White Cap Trading, L.L.C., an institutional agency broker.

Brian J. Steck has been a director since September 2004. Mr. Steck is currently President and Director of St. Andrews Financial Corp., a private financial and investment company and he has served as an advisor to Harris Bank since 2005. Mr. Steck also serves as Chairman of the Board of Purolator Courier and as a director of Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and CMA (Canadian Medical Association) Holdings Inc. Mr. Steck was Chairman and CEO of Nesbitt Burns Inc. and its subsidiaries from 1990 until his retirement in 1999. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Bank of Montreal, responsible for wealth management and investment banking from 1992 to 1999. Mr. Steck is past Chairman of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, the Canadian Securities Institute, the Canadian District of the Securities Industry Association of America, and past Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange.