Christopher Keith

Chris Keith was Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer at the New York Stock Exchange, senior Planning/Development Officer at the Security Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), responsible for well-known automation products, such as Common Message Switch, DOT, Consolidated Tape & Quote, MDS (NYSE and American Stock Exchange), PERS, Automated Bond Systems, and ITS.

He founded and was Chief Executive of DNS, the financial communication service arm of ADP, Inc. He was also the original Chief Technologist of Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC). Mr. Keith's accomplishments have been noted in numerous publications including; Trading and Technology, Red Herring, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News, CNNfn, and Securities Industry News, among others. Mr. Keith holds a BA from Stanford University and completed graduate work at Swarthmore and MIT.

In other words, he's brilliant. He has at least one patentable idea a day and he's at the age where most men would be satisfied to sit on their laurels and play golf. He's still putting in twelve hour days, inventing things.

I'm proud to be his friend.


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