John Leslie

Markit North America, Inc. provides financial information services. It offers asset pricing, forecasting, and research services to the financial sectors. It owns and operates the CDX credit derivative indices and the synthetic structured finance and loan indices ABX HE, CMBX and LCDX. The company's clients include hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies, and insurance companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City, NY.

Ned Davis Research, Inc. (NDR) is an institutional investment research firm headquartered in Nokomis, Florida. The firm was founded by Ned Davis in 1980. They are wholly owned by Delinian Holdings US LLC, which is ultimately owned by Delinian Ltd. in Great Britain. NDR produces and publishes independent financial research and offers customized research services. The firm markets its research globally, primarily to registered investment advisers, brokerage firms, asset management firms, hedge funds, endowments, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other types of institutional investors. Their approach combines both fundamental and technical research disciplines.

Andersen Consulting LLP provides accounting services. Its services include accounting, tax and business consulting. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Connotate, Inc. provides web-monitoring and web-mining solutions. Its applications include content and news aggregation, financial and market research, retail and distribution chain monitoring and compliance and risk management. The company was founded by Donald Smith, Vincent Sgro and Tomasz Imielinski in 2000 and is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ.

Markit Group Ltd. provides trade processing and financial data software services. The firm offers consulting, current event analysis, cross-industry directories, market insight, forecasts and company analysis, market intelligence platforms, software and design tools, standards and regulations, technical and specialized data, and training services. The company was founded by Rony Grushka, Lance Uggla, Tom McNerney, Kevin Gould in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Symphony Communication Services LLC engages in the design and development of cloud-based work platforms. It is an open source, secure communication and workflow platform that help to improve workplace productivity, and connects users to community. The company was founded by David Gurle in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Fintech Open Source Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, which engages in the financial services. Its program include data analytics visualization, data technologies, decentralized ecosystem growth, Financial Desktop Connectivity (FDC3), Financial Delivery Accelerator (FDX), financial objects, Hadouken, Plexus, Symphony, and Voice. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, CA .

MarkitSERV LLC provides derivative transaction processing services. The company was founded on June 9, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Symphony Foundation offers an open and collaborative community development of a platform's source code. It enables community members to make and share modifications to Symphony Communication Services LLC's communication platform that both serve the common interests of and will be used for the mutual benefit of the community. The company was founded on May 26, 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

MarkitSERV Ltd. provides end-to-end trade processing and workflow solutions. It offers post trade notices of execution, trade confirmation and allocations to clearing and reporting of credit and foreign exchange derivatives, equity, and interest rates. The company was founded on July 5, 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

APX, Inc. provides innovative technology and service solutions to the energy and environmental markets. Its services include spans transaction management, registries, scheduling, settlements, demand-side management, asset control, analytics, operations, exchanges, clearing, and brokerage. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, Inc. (SIFMA) is an organization that represents the securities industry in the United States. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's main focus is advocating for effective and resilient capital markets. The CEO of the company is Kenneth E. Bentsen.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.