Management Team
Roger Burkhardt, President and CEO
Roger Burkhardt serves as president and chief executive officer of Ingres. In this role he is responsible for all facets of the company's worldwide business. He also serves on the company's Board of Directors. As president and CEO, Roger is responsible for corporate strategy, development, engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs.
Prior to Ingres, Roger was the chief technology officer and executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, where he led a global technology team of 2,000 colleagues through the most important business and technology transformation in the Exchange's history: the shift to electronic trading. Under his leadership, the NYSE embraced open source solutions, maintained world-class reliability standards, and increased transaction volumes seven-fold.
Prior to the NYSE, Roger was president of listed equities for OptiMark Technologies, a developer of electronic trading technology that was adopted by more than 80 percent of the top 200 trading firms in the United States. He was also with IBM for 15 years where he held several leadership positions in engineering, sales, and business development. Most recently, he served as director of capital markets, IBM Banking, Finance and Securities, where he ran a $250 million business unit serving the needs of the Wall Street banking community.
Roger currently serves on the Board of Directors of MarketAxess (MKTX), which operates one of the leading platforms for the electronic trading of corporate bonds and other fixed-income securities. He holds an MBA. in finance from New York University and both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics from Oxford University. A former member of the IBM Advisory Board, Roger is recognized by Wall Street and technology innovators worldwide for his customer advocacy work and thought leadership.