< The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge

In 2010, its first year of operation, Perseus was a boutique, serving a handful of customers who had caught on to a bespoke, managed telecommunications service model that may have been slightly ahead of its time. The following year, recalls founder and CEO Jock Percy, proprietary traders started climbing aboard, drawn to the LiquidPath network’s low latency and market-access connectivity. A steady stream of exchanges, investment banks and hedge funds — and a small but growing number of media, e-commerce and gaming companies — followed. If Perseus, which has its headquarters in New York, hadn’t quite established itself as a Wall Street name, that changed in April, when Goldman Sachs Group bought a minority stake for $20.5 million. It was more than just an image booster, says Percy, 41, who placed so much stock in the power of his brand that he dropped “Telecom” from the company’s name some months before. The funding will enable Perseus to complete a 28-location expansion of LiquidPath in one year, instead of the original plan for five years. Three cities added in the first quarter — Johannesburg, Istanbul and Santiago — are representative of Perseus’ global reach. Percy says his main competition is do-it-yourself networking, which is increasingly ripe for outsourcing as firms come to the conclusion that their competitive advantages lie elsewhere. With a Ph.D. in political economies from the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Percy has an intellectual and professional fascination with Bitcoin. He announced early last year that Perseus would accept Bitcoin payments. In May 2014 the company launched a digital currency initiative, offering its “Wall Street–grade” infrastructure as an alternative to Mt. Gox and other platforms that did not serve Bitcoin well.

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The 2015 Tech 50

1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. Solana vs. Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: How Do They Compare? Sponsored by CME Group April 29, 2025 3. Phupinder Gill CME Group 4. Lance Uggla Markit 5. Robert Goldstein BlackRock

6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 7. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group 8. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 9. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 10. Adena Friedman Nasdaq OMX Group

11. David Craig Thomson Reuters 12. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. 18. Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group 19. Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. 20. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co.

21. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 22. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 23. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 24. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 25. Frank Bisignano First Data Corp.

26. John Marcante Vanguard Group 27. Joseph Squeri Citadel 28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 29. Claude Honegger Credit Suisse 30. Chris Corrado MSCI

31. David Gledhill DBS Bank 32. John Bates Software AG 33. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 34. Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group 35. Sunil Hirani trueEX Group

36. Hauke Stars Deutsche BÖrse 37. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 38. Jim Minnick eVestment 39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais 40. Tyler Kim MaplesFS

41. Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. 42. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 43. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 44. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 45. Stephane Dubois Xignite

46. Mazy Dar OpenFin 47. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 48. Mas Nakachi OpenGamma 49. John Lehner BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group 50. Jock Percy Perseus