Location Bedminster, New Jersey, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male Also Known As Alexander Goor
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Alex Goor has spent 20 years building electronic financial markets. Firms he has helped lead and create, both from a technical and management leadership vantage, have been sold to ICE/NYSE, Ameritrade, the NASDAQ, Nomura, and leading private equity firms, including Silver Lake and Bain Capital.
Alex began his career as the Chief Strategy
Officer of Datek Online Holdings Corporation, where he supervised all business development efforts. Datek offered online brokerage services to almost 1 million retail clients, among other services. After Datek, Alex became co-CEO and CIO of Instinet, an institutional agency brokerage servicing the largest global asset managers, where in 17 months he and his team increased the firm’s value 6 times. The company was purchased in a management buy-out in December 2005 for $207 million and sold 17 months later for $1.3 billion.
From 2010 to 2015, Alex was the Chief Information Officer of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), a Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus portfolio company. In 2015, the group sold IDC to ICE/NYSE for $5.3 billion, having tripled their equity investment of $1.3 billion. IDC is the preeminent provider of pricing for fund managers with as much as 98% market share in critical markets. Among Alex’s accomplishments in this role was to create the technical capability to provide real-time pricing for millions of global fixed income securities, a marked improvement from end-of-day pricing which was, until this advent, the norm. In addition, he was able to leverage new technologies to create an integrated platform that reduced costs. In this role as Head of Technology, 1,000 people, roughly 40% of the employees, and 50% of the costs reported up to Alex.
Alex currently is a trustee of Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and on the boards of Dealogic, a Carlyle company, and Insurity, a TA Associates and General Atlantic company. He has served as a director on the Board of Directors of BondDesk. He received his Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1995, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. Alex is an accomplished pianist and studied for years at The Juilliard School of Music in New York before changing direction to become a pioneer of financial technology. Alex lives in New York with his wife and two children.
