Board of Directors

Steve Cooper
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board

  • Experienced corporate executive and successful entrepreneur with an extensive career in high technology
  • 15 years with Intel and Silicon Systems
  • Former Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Etec Systems, Inc., the leading supplier of electron and laser beam mask patterning equipment for the semiconductor industry

Ted Jenkins
Member of the Board
Former Vice President and Director of Corporate Licensing, Intel

  • Intel employee #22
  • 30 years at Intel in the following areas: Die Production, Microprocessor/Peripheral Manufacturing, and Peripheral Components
  • Vice President and General Manager of the Memory Components Division and Vice President and Director of Corporate Licensing; Chairman of Intel's Government Affairs Committee

Bill Lupien
Member of the Board
Former Chief Executive Officer of Instinet

  • Founder of Instinet
  • Former Chairman of OptiMark
  • Recognized as champion of world's first automated trading system
  • Co-inventor of OptiMark's patented trading technology
  • More than 40 years of financial market experience

Terry Rickard, Ph.D.
Member of the Board

  • Senior Fellow of Lockheed Martin
  • Former President and Chief Scientific Officer of OptiMark
  • Co-inventor of OptiMark's patented trading technology
  • Author of numerous technical publications in the fields of electronic market structure, matching algorithms and trading strategies
  • 34 years of experience in high-technology organizations

Terry Brookshire
Member of the Board

  • Former Executive Vice President of OptiMark Technologies
  • Former president of the Options/Derivatives segment at OptiMark Technologies
  • Former Vice Chairman and Director of the Pacific Stock Exchange
  • Equipped with over 25 years of experience within the derivatives market