David E. Rutter
American financial services executive
David E. Rutter is an American financial services executive. He is the founder and chief executive of R3, a blockchain technology company, and the founder and owner of LiquidityEdge, a trading platform for US Treasuries.
Education
Rutter received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Villanova University in 1984.
Career
Rutter worked in the electronic broking division at ICAP Plc for ten years, becoming chief executive in 2009. He managed the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms.
Before joining ICAP, he was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane. In 1988, Prebon entered into a joint venture with the Chicago Board of Trade that led to the introduction of trading on computer screens.
In 2014, Rutter founded R3, a software developer that built the blockchain platform Corda. The aim of the company was to build blockchain applications for banks to supplement or replace their "creaking" computer systems.
Rutter founded LiquidityEdge in 2015 to provide an alternative trading model for US Treasuries.
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