Steve Crutchfield

Steve Crutchfield is Vice President and Head of Options Markets, Exchange-Traded Products, and Bonds at the New York Stock Exchange (an Intercontinental Exchange company), where his responsibilities include oversight of the NYSE Amex and NYSE Arca options exchanges and the NYSE Global Index Group. Mr. Crutchfield is also CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of NYSE Amex Options LLC, and sat on the Board of Directors of the Options Clearing Corporation from 2012 to 2014.

Previously, Mr. Crutchfield was Chief Operating Officer at Matlock Capital LLC, where he supervised all trading, quantitative research, and systems work from 2004 through 2009. Matlock, a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago, executed fully-automated options, equities, and futures strategies with an emphasis on market making, volatility forecasting, and statistical arbitrage.

Prior to joining Matlock, Mr. Crutchfield was Managing Director of the Research and Development group at Botta Capital Management. At Botta, he oversaw the development of trading models and technology. Before this, he launched and directed Botta’s off-floor options trading desk and its equity risk arbitrage business.

Mr. Crutchfield holds an MBA in Econometrics and Analytic Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. He was named one of the Crain’s New York Business “40 Under Forty” in 2012. Mr. Crutchfield lives in Manhattan.

Mr. Crutchfield is a Board member of the Hull Investments, LLC, a family office that serves three generations of the Hull family, and is not involved in management or decision making at HTAA, LLC.