Our Executive Team

Peter Randall
CEO Equiduct Systems

Peter Randall is the Chief Executive of Equiduct Systems Ltd. Peter started his career in investment  research and was named a leading analyst by Euromoney when he was at James Capel. He spent an extended time in Asia with the joint venture between Sanford Bernstein and James Capel where he was responsible for quantitative sales, after this he became the MD of Thamesway and then CEO of Instinet in Asia. Peter relocated to Instinet Europe in 2005 and was responsible for delivering the MiFID compliant Chi-X platform. He latterly served as CEO of Chi-X Europe Limited. Peter has been on a number of regulatory committees and was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.

Rob Brouwer
CIO

Rob was appointed CIO of Equiduct Systems in 2006 and has been involved with the ETS trading platform since 2000 when he performed the technical due diligence leading to the acquisition of Easdaq by Nasdaq. He has been instrumental in the functional and technical development of the trading system to make it the industry leader it is today. Prior to this, Rob was CTO of Nasdaq Europe where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the European version of the SuperMontage trading platform. Rob played a pivotal role in the subsequent acquisition and implementation of this trading system to replace the Nasdaq US legacy trading infrastructure.

Prior to joining Nasdaq, Rob was responsible for the technology department of derivatives branch of Euronext Brussels. Rob has twenty years of experience in information technology management within the financial services industry, working for companies such as BNP, Euroclear, Euronext and IBM. In these roles Rob has been responsible for major software and services procurements and project implementations.

At Equiduct Systems, Rob is responsible for all technology issues.

Willy van Stappen
COO

Willy joined Equiduct Systems as its Chief Operating Officer in March 2007, after more than 25 years experience in the securities industry. Willy joined Equiduct from LCH.Clearnet SA where he was Member of the company’s Investment Management Committee and the company’s Integration Programme Committee and Programme Director responsible for the Equities Integration and Equities Harmonization Programme. Between 2001 and 2003, Willy was member of the Executive Committee of Clearnet SA (Banque Centrale de Compensation, France) as head of operations Clearnet SA and General Manager of their Brussels branch. He was also a Member of the Board of the Belgian CSD “CIK” from 2000 and 2005 and member of the Brussels’ Euronext Orientation Council. From 1999 to 2001, Willy was Member of the Executive Committee of Brussels Exchanges (BXS), CEO of BXS Clearing S.A. and of BXS-CIK S.A. From 1990 to 1999, he was Vice-President of the Executive Committee of Belfox (Belgium Futures and Options Markets) with responsibilities over the Clearing, Compliance, Finance and Trading departments. Prior to joining Belfox, Willy held different positions in the securities departments of various financial institutions. Willy chaired the European Association of Central Counterparty Clearing Houses in 2001.
At Equiduct Systems, Willy is responsible for Operations Management including On-boarding, technical Market Control and Clearing & Settlement.