Danny Moore Email Address

President and Chief Executive Officer

Options is the leading global provider of financial technology managed services, hedge fund technology and IT infrastructure products.

A Wall Street technology entrepreneur with accomplishments ranging from leading the sale of Wombat Financial Software to NSYE Euronext for $200m aged 36 in 2008, to winning an Oscar with the production team of “The Shore”, winner of best short film in 2011. Danny currently manages Lough Shore Investments, the investment firm he founded in 2010, and is CEO of Options Technology, a leading front office managed service provider that looks set to emulate the success of Wombat in dominating a key emerging financial technology market. Danny is known for his no-nonsense approach and passion for financial technology, software development, business management and notably, through leveraging graduates sourced from Northern Ireland, building world-beating technology organisations and teams with a flare for customer service. His career began as a software developer with First Derivatives, building fixed income pricing models and then algorithmic trading systems in Java, C, C++, K, KDB, KDB+ and then Q. Moving to the business side, he set up the New York sales office for Kx Systems as they emerged as a leader in the time series database market. After several years with Kx, Danny joined Wombat as the second full-time employee, and COO, managing the company through a period of explosive growth with saw revenues increase 50x over a five year period during which the company successful built a succession of technologies that defined low latency market data delivery. In 2008, as CEO, Danny led an auction process that culminated in the sale of Wombat to NYSE Euronext. During two years at NYSE Euronext Danny was a member of the NYSE Technologies founding executive team and was integral in both to developing NYSE’s commercial technology vision and restructuring European technology in the Exchange.