Leadership

Danny Moore

President and Chief Executive Officer

Danny Moore is a former Chief Executive Officer of the trading technology firm Wombat Financial Software and Chief Operating Officer of the NYSE Euronext trading technology segment, NYSE Technologies.

Before joining Wombat, Danny worked with Newry-based First Derivatives Plc. In 2010, Danny established Belfast-based investment firm Lough Shore Investments.

As President and CEO at Options, Danny is responsible for leading the firm’s day-to-day global operations, in addition to overseeing the continued market expansion of the Options platform within both established and emerging financial markets.

Tim Yockel

Senior Vice President, Global Sales

Tim Yockel is SVP for Global Sales at Options and brings 20 years’ experience in managing international sales organizations and selling complex technology solutions. Previously, Tim was the former Global Head of Sales for NYSE Technologies, a position he held from March 2008 until joining Options in March 2013.

Prior to NYSE, Tim was Head of Sales for the trading technology firm Wombat Financial Software, which was acquired by NYSE Euronext in 2008. While at Wombat, he was instrumental in establishing sales offices in New York, London, Chicago and Tokyo. Prior to joining Wombat, he spent six years with Reuters America, selling solutions to the firm’s top 40 focus group accounts. Tim is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned Bachelor’s degrees in both mathematics and economics.

Terry Hughes

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Terry is responsible for leading Options’ global marketing, brand and communications strategy in addition to overseeing the firm’s business development, partner marketing and customer engagement initiatives. With over 20 years’ experience, working across multiple business development, customer engagement and management consultancy roles, Terry is an internationally experienced business marketing leader, holding management roles within the Defence, Pharmaceutical and Financial Services Industries.

Samuel Farmer

Senior Vice President, Managing Director EMEA

Samuel Farmer is SVP, MD for Options in EMEA with responsibility for focusing the teams’ efforts on driving new business growth, delivering service excellence and the development of strong regional relationships to further enhance Options’ position as the leading provider of services to the Global Financial Services sector.

He was previously responsible for heading up EMEA Sales and running the Managed Application business globally for Options prior to which he performed a number of different roles across technology for Fidelity Investments.

Samuel’s professional qualifications include a BSc (Hons), Internet Technologies and Applications from Plymouth University as well as several industry qualifications aligned to business management.

Jake Beeman

Chief Strategy Officer

Jon Lambert

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer, Jon Lambert, joins Options with more than 25 years of financial and operational experience within the infrastructure technology and financial services sector. From 2007, until its acquisition by NYSE Euronext in 2008, Jon served as CFO at Wombat Financial Software, a leading provider of low latency market data management solutions and infrastructure.

Previous to Wombat, Jon served as Senior Vice President and CFO at TIBCO, a real-time middleware integration software company. Most recently, Lambert was CFO of HotChalk, an education technology company. Prior to TIBCO, Jon served as audit manager for Ernst & Young. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has an honors degree in Horticulture from Bath University, England.

Stephen Morrow

Chief Operating Officer

Stephen Morrow is Options’ COO and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s key strategic accounts and global operations. Stephen was previously Vice President of the Exchange Solutions division at NYSE Technologies, NYSE Euronext’s commercial technology division. Previous to this, he held the position of Managing Director for the Exchange Solutions division at NYSE, focusing on product management and international deployment.

Prior to joining NYSE, Stephen was Director of Exchange Solutions at Wombat Financial Software.

Micah Kroeze

Senior Vice President, Product Management

Micah Kroeze joined Options as VP Product Management and is responsible for the development of Options’ Managed Colocation services, cybersecurity offering and the overall delivery of the firm’s product roadmap.

Kroeze brings nearly a decade of industry experience to Options from NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems, where he oversaw the growth of the firm’s market data and hosted services product lines.

John Bryant

Chief Technology Officer

Options’ Chief Technology Officer joined in 2008 with his initial focus on the revamp of our low-latency market data product portfolio in addition to managing the company’s global data centre expansion program. In addition to leading our engineering practice, John advises clients and prospects on industry best-practice design.

With over 20 years Capital Markets experience, John has a wealth of knowledge stretching across technologies such as ultra-low latency trading infrastructure, application architecture and cyber security.

Prior to working for Options, John was IT Director for Insinger de Beaufort, a wealth management firm, where he deployed turn-key voice and data network solutions as well as overhauling front, middle and back office architecture (STP).

John Gracey

Chief Security Officer

Options’ Chief Security Officer John Gracey has over 18 years’ experience gained with some of the world’s leading technology companies including Yahoo!, IBM and BT.

Prior to joining Options in 2017, John provided security expertise to a wide range of clients across both public and private sectors, including many deemed Critical National Infrastructure. He holds the CISSP certification in addition to having attained multiple, internationally recognised qualifications from organisations such as CNSS, ILM, ISEB, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, HP and Brocade.

John’s industry leading expertise enables Options to provide clients with the highest standards of security and state-of-the-art solutions.

Marlena Efstratopoulou

Chief Risk Officer

Marlena joined Options in April 2021 with nearly a decade of industry experience from DXC Technologies, HPE, and Fixnetix. As Chief Information Security Officer with Fixnetix she led them to SOC2 accreditation, alongside developing and coordinating the delivery of their Managed Security Services offering.

As CRO, Marlena has responsibility for Options’ Security-as-a-Service offering and will be at the forefront of Options’ Managed Security solutions, providing industry-leading end-to-end security across all product lines. Marlena helps provide clients with a tailored, bespoke solution to enhance their security profile through risk and compliance management to both Options’ and industry-standard regulatory frameworks.

Richard Hughes

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development

Richard Hughes is SVP for Corporate Development at Options and has responsibility for managing key strategic client relationships and partnerships in the Options’ portfolio.  His role focuses on identifying and supporting key growth initiatives for the business alongside delivering service excellence to further enhance Options’ position as the premier provider of technology services to the Global Financial sector.  He joined Options in 2014 and most recently held the position of European MD.

Richard has over 30 years’ experience from within the financial technology sector having previously held senior executive roles within NYSE Technologies, NYFIX and Omgeo.

Nick Bryant

Chief Administrative Officer

Nick Bryant joined Options in August 2005, and is responsible for business operations and risk control across sales, vendor and partner relationships, and the management of various internal business functions.

Nick was the first employee hired for the US office, beginning as a support engineer before later moving to sales and regional P&L management. During his time in these initial roles he was able to develop a wide range of skills in both the technical and financial aspects of the business, and quickly became an integral part of the company’s strategic decision making.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Hons) in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Peter Jeanmonod

Senior Vice President, Business Engineering

Jun Ashida

Managing Director, Head of Asia

Jun Ashida is responsible for Options’ Asia-Pacific business operations, delivery of critical operations support for Options’ global engineering teams and overall regional growth across Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Jun brings over a decade of industry experience to Options from Credit Suisse, where he advised Prime Brokerage and Private Wealth clients on the expansion of institutional-grade infrastructure and asset management. At RBS he oversaw the development of the firm’s technology, legal, compliance, HR and trading operations. Previous to that, while at Merrill Lynch, Jun facilitated a range of business development initiatives, including the opening of the firm’s regional offices across Europe.

Mike Russo

Vice President, Product Management

Mike Russo joined Options as VP Product Management and is responsible for the development of the firm’s Managed Application services, cloud offering, security and the overall delivery of the firm’s product roadmap.

Russo brings nearly two decades of industry experience to Options from Finastra and OpenLink Financial, where he oversaw global business development and growth of the firm’s burgeoning cloud-based solutions.