Primary Job Title Executive Chairman Primary Organization Lukka
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Nick Ogurtsov is the Executive Chairman at Lukka. He attended the University of Arizona and Beloit College.
Nick Ogurtsov is KCG’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Risk Officer (CRO). As COO he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s operations and clearing. As CRO Nick is responsible for managing the firm’s strategic and operational risk
management framework, including the design and implementation of systems and processes to identify, mitigate and assess the firm’s risk exposure.
Nick joined GETCO in 2012 and was the firm’s CRO before it merged with Knight Capital Group to form KCG in July 2013. Prior to joining GETCO, he was Managing Director and Global Head of UBS’s high-frequency electronic trading group, EMM Group. He built and managed EMM Group’s global team in New York, London and Tokyo where they traded equities, fixed income and foreign exchange. As a member UBS’s management team for the global cash equities business, he also helped rebuild the firm’s trading technology in the Asia-Pacific region.
He began his career at UBS (formally SBC Warburg) as a convertible bonds trader and later co-headed the equity-linked structured products team.
Nick earned his B.S. in physics and computer science from Beloit College and a Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Arizona.
