Managing Director
The NASDAQ OMX Group

 
Biography
Randall Hopkins has over twelve years experience at The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the world's largest exchange company. His experience spans the market data, listings, trading, and index businesses, both in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Hopkins has held several senior leadership positions, including Senior Vice President of the $300MM Global Data Products business which creates, distributes, and monetizes valuable information from NASDAQ OMX's trading systems globally. In this role, Mr. Hopkins oversaw various internal teams, including Sales, Product Management, Content Administration & Policy, and New Business Development. He successfully integrated the INET, and OMX data businesses.

Mr. Hopkins served on the Unlisted Trading Privileges Plan's Operating Committee for five years as The NASDAQ OMX Group's senior representative, providing leadership on matters such as market structure, transparency, technology, and governance, working collaboratively with all other U.S. equity exchanges and the S.E.C. In this role, he guided the development of real-time and historical market data products which serve millions of subscribers daily.

Currently, Mr. Hopkins heads up NASDAQ OMX's Capital Markets business in the Pacific Northwest, working with pre-IPO companies to help them navigate the IPO process and to ensure a smooth transition to being a public company. Mr. Hopkins also works with companies already listed on NASDAQ to help them make the most of their NASDAQ listing and to drive value to their business and their shareholders.

Mr. Hopkins holds Masters degrees in Business Administration, Information Science, and Philosophy, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.