Rob Boardman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, Virtu ITG Europe Limited
Rob Boardman, chief executive of Investment Technology Group Limited (Ireland), Virtu ITG’s European broker-dealer, came to Virtu ITG Europe Limited in 2006 as head of algorithmic sales. His career began in 1994 at Goldman Sachs, where he filled various roles in deploying trading technology to institutional clients over 12 years. Boardman was a founding member of the European FIX Protocol organization in the late 1990s, when standards for electronic trading were formed; he was global head of its marketing working group in 2001.
Boardman earned undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in particle physics at the University of Oxford, where he participated in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory scientific collaboration.