Christopher Crosby Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, FL, US

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Global Director of development for the Securities Processing sector of the Capital Markets Division.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• BGC Partners | Sr. VP, Global Head of Post Trade Technology 2006 to 2020Led global 20+ member team in three countries with $5M+ budget to support post trade processing and management technology with volume of two.
• Reduced spending on maintenance contracts by $1M+/year by negotiating terms with SAP Business Objects, Sybase, and Intellimatch.
• Migrated trade processing from acquired platform to corporate standard platform and reduced subscription fees to produce $900K/year in savings. (RIMS project – above)
• Build out of operational transactional data store to provide in-house reporting capability and saved $500K/year in service and vendor fees.
• Partnered with senior technology and business leaders to rebuild Fenics US Treasury electronic trading platform with respect to settlement and clearing of high frequency business.
• Recovered operations after 2008 and Hurricane Sandy disasters.

New York, New York, US

• Directly managed 40 team members in reference data, settlement, and database administration, beginning in previous role (2001). 30 team members handled clearing integration of in-house and third party front/middle.
• Created and implemented global SAP database replication system to deliver enterprise reference data to 15 globally dispersed trade processing engines, and global SAP database model and replication scheme to capture.
• Partnered with head of US settlements to design and launch Sungard Phase 3 clearing integration feeds under eight week deadline.
• Led team to design and deploy Phase 3 replicated data environment to facilitate global trade settlement monitoring and static and trade data reporting warehouse.
• Designed and deployed global replication strategy for eSpeed core database infrastructure.
• Directed teams through systems and processing recovery for core eSpeed businesses after 9/11 by building and reconfiguring all static, trade, and data messaging infrastructure. Restored U.S. Treasury electronic trading.

New York, New York, US

Database design expert; reviewed proposed back office solutions. Created the company’s first global security master databases. Built and integrated global security master into the eSpeed Electronic Trading Platform and created a data warehouse to capture transactional data for support services and metric/management reporting. e-Speed was the first.

Gogarburn, GB