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The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today announced that its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Robert Cornish will assume the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) upon the retirement of current CIO Daniel Friel, effective April 1, 2016. Thomas Reina, currently in the position of Senior Vice President, Technology Development, will become CTO. The technology management team has been planning for over six months to ensure a seamless transition following Mr. Friel’s announcement of his retirement plans last fall.
“It is with the deepest gratitude and appreciation that I thank Danny Friel for his seventeen years of service to ISE,” said Gary Katz, President and CEO. “As the tenth employee of ISE, he has helped to build this exchange since the very beginning and created a technology organization that is exceptional in every respect. An important part of building a strong team is creating and executing a succession plan, and Rob Cornish and Tom Reina will maintain the same spirit of innovation and collaboration that Danny established as they lead the technology team forward into the next phase of ISE’s growth.”
Mr. Cornish has served as ISE’s CTO since March 2013. With ISE since 1999, Mr. Cornish assisted in the ISE exchange launch as a technology consultant and became an employee in October 2000 with the initial responsibility of forming an internal software development group. He is a member of the OCC Technology Roundtable, Financial Services Information and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC).
Mr. Reina has been a member of the firm’s Management Team and responsible for Technology Development at ISE since 2007. Mr. Reina is responsible for all of ISE Holdings’ software development and technology R&D efforts, including technology for ISE’s subsidiary Longitude. Mr. Reina is also responsible for technology architecture, capacity management, and testing. He joined ISE in 2001 from Citibank, with over fifteen years of prior software development experience in the financial and banking industries.
More Information about ISE’s Management Team is available at /about-ise/management-team/.
