Primary Job Title Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee Primary Organization 
Bridgeline Digital
Gender Male
Rob Hegarty has been a member of Bridgeline Digital’s Board of Directors since 2008, and he is the Chairman of the Company’s Nominating & Governance Committee and Compensation Committee.
Mr. Hegarty is Managing Director, Strategy and Marketing at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. In this role, Rob is responsible for all strategy
and marketing functions across the firm. He is also specifically spearheading DTCC’s efforts to identify new market and growth opportunities focused on the buy-side, front-office, and trading communities. DTCC, through its subsidiaries, provides clearance, settlement and information services for equity, fixed income, mutual fund, money market, insurance, and derivative instruments. DTCC has operating facilities in multiple locations in the United States and overseas.
Mr. Hegarty has over 25 years of experience in the financial services technology industry. Prior to joining DTCC in April 2009, Rob was a Managing Director at TowerGroup, a leading provider of research and advisory services to the global financial services and technology industries. There he led two of TowerGroup’s practice areas: Securities & Investments and Insurance. Before joining TowerGroup in 1999, Rob was vice president of trading systems at Putnam Investments in Boston. Prior to Putnam, he was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for eight years, primarily responsible for technology for the institutional broker-dealer arm of Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Capital Markets. Previously, he was division vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and was with the IT management consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand's Boston office.
Quoted frequently by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, Forbes, Institutional Investor, Wall Street & Technology, Securities Industry News, and Global Investment Technology, Rob has been a featured speaker at dozens of industry conferences and appears regularly on CNBC-TV (U.S. and Europe), Bloomberg-TV, ABC-TV, and National Public Radio.
Mr. Hegarty holds an M.B.A. with a finance/marketing concentration from Babson College and a B.S. in computer science from North Adams State College.
