Steven Sadoff

BGC Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of brokerage services to the financial markets. The firm offers integrated voice, hybrid and fully electronic brokerage in a broad range of products, including fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, insurance, energy and commodities and futures. It also provides trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information and other back-office services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Pico Quantitative Trading LLC provides financial technology services. Its offers products which include colocation, low latency network, market data, managed services, regulatory reporting and execution technology. The company was founded by Jarrod Yuster in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Direct Edge Holdings LLC operates an electronic communication network for trading financial products. It trades all listed U.S. equities with a market share in the, the company regularly trades shares, fluctuating with the overall market volume. It operates two separate platforms, EDGA Exchange and EDGX Exchange. The EDGA Exchange is a low cost exchange with a taker and maker pricing model. The EDGX Exchange is an exchange with maker and taker pricing model offering high rebates for liquidity providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.