Chris White, Founder and CEO, ViableMkts
Chris White has 18 years of financial services experience with more than 13 years dedicated to fixed income electronic business development. His journey in financial technology began in 2003 when he joined the electronic corporate bond trading start up, MarketAxess. After helping establish the MarketAxess platform, Mr. White transitioned his career to the sell side, working for leading investment banks like Barclays, Lehman and Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for modernizing their respective credit market making businesses. During his time at Goldman Sachs (2010 – 2015), Mr. White invented the GSessions corporate bond trading platform and the first corporate bond IOI.
Currently, Mr. White is the founder and CEO of two companies, ViableMkts, an advisory firm that provides strategic guidance on financial technology and fixed income market structure and BondCliQ, a start-up company that is building an innovative central market system for corporate bonds.
In addition to ViableMkts and BondCliQ, Mr. White is the founder and editor of the Friday Newsletter (www.fridaynewsletter) and a professor at the New York Institute of Finance where he teaches a course in market structure mechanics and electronic trading.
Twitter: @FridayNwsletter