Thomas W. Farley

Farley grew up in Bowie, Maryland. In 1993, he graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government, where he played collegiate baseball. He received a Chartered Financial Analyst certification from the CFA Institute. Farley worked for Montgomery Securities, an investment bank, and Gryphon Investors, a private equity firm. He was the chief financial officer, chief operating officer and later president of SunGard Kiodex, the derivatives advisory subsidiary of SunGard. In January 2007, at age 30, Farley became the president of the New York Board of Trade at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and chief operating officer of ICE Futures U.S. While he was president of the NYBOT, the company introduced electronic trading, doubled trading volume, and saw earnings rise sixfold. He was later the senior vice president of financial markets at the ICE.