MTM#44: Using Tech to Build a Better Stock Exchange with IEX Founder, Ronan Ryan

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PROGRAM UPDATE: FREE DRINKS! sponsored by NJTC (NJ Tech Council www.njtc.org). The Morris Tech Meetup is now a part of Jersey Innovation Week and we are invited to the NJTC Happy Hour. Please show up at 6pm sharp, come network with our members and thank the NJTC for the bubbly love. And don't forget to append your photos of the evening with #NJInnovWeek

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TAKING ON THE GIANTS!

[A meetup so big we have to move it to the Mansion! Across the field from where we usually hold our meetup in the Orangerie (library)]

We've seen a number of startups disrupting almost every industry, biting at the heels of the 800 lb gorillas and sometimes overtaking them and growing to greater heights than the previous incumbent.

But can you imagine somebody actually having any success taking on the NYSE and NASDAQ?

Come to our Morris Tech Meetup on May 16th and hear how President and Founder of IEX (The Investors Exchange) (https://www.iextrading.com/), Ronan Ryan, along with his executive team, is disrupting the stock exchanges in the United States.

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Ronan's tech expertise in networking and infrastructure caught the eye of IEX CEO, Brad Katsuyama and together they devised a plan to identify and correct the effects of corrupt High-Frequency Trading (HFT) tactics, an upstart stock trading venue designed to institutionalize fairness in the market through the use of technology.

Find out how IEX differentiates itself in an industry that is highly automated and how in just a couple of years is beginning to take a significant market share away from the big exchanges.

And even better? How many people do you know that has been featured in a Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, Liars Poker) book? Ronan Ryan and the IEX team is the featured subject (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/books/flash-boys-by-michael-lewis-a-tale-of-high-speed-trading.html?_r=0) of Michael Lewis' latest book Flash Boys (http://a.co/7J2rA5b).

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NEW ADDITION TO THE PROGRAM: Be one of the FIRST in NJ to hear Clark Smith of the NJEDA speak about the latest great program from the State of New Jersey to help entrepreneurs in the tech and life sciences industries. If you are part of a start-up, you need to come get information on this new incentive, along with the other programs that the NJEDA provides to help NJ small businesses.

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Agenda for the evening is as follows:

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza & Networking

7:00 to 7:10 Updates

7:10 to 7:20 Audience/Member Announcements and Requests

7:20 to 7:40 Clark Smith of the NJEDA with a NEW INCENTIVE PROGRAM for NJ-based tech startups.

7:45 to 8:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ronan Ryan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronan-ryan-980a196/) of IEX Group

8:45 to 9:00 Networking

After 9:00 Drinks at Vanderbilt's in the Hamilton Park Hotel 175 Park Ave Florham Park, NJ 07932 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&oi=plus&q=https://maps.google.com/maps?expflags%3Denable_star_based_justifications:true%26ie%3DUTF8%26cid%3D16356950445471689601%26q%3DHamilton%2BPark%2BHotel%2B%2526%2BConference%2BCenter%26iwloc%3DA%26gl%3DUS%26hl%3Den) - Just exit through the Florham Road / Park Ave exit of FDU and you will see the Hotel on the left before you reach Park Ave.

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This meetup is made possible by our incredibly supportive sponsors:

Founding Sponsors - Gearhart Law (http://www.gearhartlaw.com/) & iEnterprises (http://www.ienterprises.com/)

Platinum Elite Sponsors - McCarter & English (http://www.mccarter.com/)

Gold Sponsors - Wiss (http://www.wiss.com/)

Event Sponsor - MindCraft America (http://www.mindcraftamerica.com) and NJTC

Please visit their websites and consider using their services. They have been vetted by us as being among the top service providers for startups and SMBs in the NJ/NY region.

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Directions - Complete directions to the FDU library are available here - http://view.fdu.edu/files/directionstolibrarymonningercenterandorangerie.pdf

Parking - Park behind the library, across from of the dorms or in one of the larger (but further) lots. See the parking map below.

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