Jim Gorman

Founded in 2001 by Seth Merrin and Eric LeGoff, Liquidnet, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. Liquidnet manages an electronic marketplace for institutional trading that brings buyers and sellers together and allows them to anonymously trade large blocks of stock without intermediaries or information leaks. Liquidnet's clients include buy-side financial institutions from around the world. Liquidnet provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. The firm does not provide any internal research.

BATS Global Markets, Inc. operates as a global stock exchange operator. It offers trading between United States equities, options, European equities, and foreign exchange. The company was founded by Joseph P. Ratterman in June 2005 and is headquartered in Lenexa, KS.