Primary Job Title Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications Primary Organization Cboe Global Markets
Gender Male
Randy Williams is Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications at BATS Global Markets. He joined the firm in October 2006 and oversees all internal and external communications for the firm.
Mr. Williams’ team is responsible for much of BATS' interaction with external audiences, including journalists and analysts, and their
work has led to coverage from Bloomberg, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNBC, Dow Jones Newswires, Forbes, Reuters, The Economist, The Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
He began his career as a journalist at Dow Jones Newswires in New York and spent 10 years there. From 1998 to 2004, he was assistant managing editor in charge of the spot news operation, supervising a group of more than 50 journalists and statisticians. In 2001, in honor of his work for the newswire on Sept. 11, 2001, he received the Dow Jones Circle of Excellence Outstanding Service Award.
Prior to joining BATS, Mr. Williams was Vice President with the global public relations consulting firm Fleishman-Hilliard, focused on financial companies for its fourth-largest office in Kansas City. He was at Starkman & Associates, New York, as Senior Managing Director prior to moving to Kansas City in 2006.
A former offensive lineman at the University of Illinois and Lehigh University, Mr. Williams graduated from Lehigh with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in public relations.
