Alex Goor

Director at GAIN Capital

Alex Goor has spent 20 years building electronic financial markets. He has held both technical and general management leadership positions across a range of market leading, innovative companies. Mr. Goor began his career as the Chief Strategy Officer of Datek Online Holdings Corporation, where he supervised all business development efforts. After Datek, Mr. Goor became co-CEO and CIO of Instinet, an institutional agency brokerage servicing the largest global asset managers, where in 17 months he and his team increased the firm's value 6 times. From 2010 to 2015, Alex was the Chief Information Officer of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), a Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus portfolio company. In 2015, the group sold IDC to ICE/NYSE for $5.3 billion. Mr. Goor currently is a trustee of Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and on the boards of Dealogic, a Carlyle company, and Insurity, a TA Associates and General Atlantic company. He has served as a director on the Board of Directors of BondDesk. He received his Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1995, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude.

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