John Standerfer

About John Standerfer

Accomplished software executive with 15 years in the Financial Services industry. Expertise in leading the design, development and deployment of software products targeting financial services consumers and companies. Experienced in all aspects of sales process with clients ranging from local credit unions to Fortune 50 companies. Excels at turning information and feedback from clients/partners into new revenue generating products. Knowledgeable about software company contract negotiation with vendors and clients. Created and presented financial models and business plans for angel investors, private equity groups and strategic acquirers. Strong business relationships with retail broker-dealers, investment banks and US based exchanges. Media experience as expert commentator and columnist on US financial markets.

Experience

1. CTO

   S3

   Jan 2011 — Present

   Led product direction and managed technical development of S3\'s SaaS real-time analytics platform that processes over 1+ TB of market per day and analyzes over 30% of total US options volume.• Conceived of and designed multiple industry first products including execution analytics for options, real-time execution analytics and analytics for complex options.• Grew annual recurring subscription revenue from <$100k to ~$3m.• Negotiated financial and technical terms of contracts for new clients including New York Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America / Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.• Developed and presented financial models and business outlines to potential external investors and acquirers.• Provided strategic oversight and direction for creation and implementation of companywide budgets, revenue and cash flow projections for $8m company.• Oversaw expansion of S3 infrastructure from a single datacenter in Austin to redundant infrastructure distributed across multiple datacenters.• Created more efficient internal processes that enabled S3 to make the Inc list of fastest growing private companies without any external investment capital.• Provided domain expertise and technical sales support for new S3 clients.• Expert guest speaker at United States Federal Reserve and industry conferences.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BS, Computer Science

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Best Execution
• Options
• Low Latency
• Market Structure
• Trading
• Saas
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Leadership
• Electronic Trading
• Distributed Systems
• C#
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Software Development
• Trading Systems
• Equities
• Electronic
• Financial Markets
• Agile Methodologies
• Equity Derivatives
• Market Data
• Equity Trading