Nick Themelis

The CIO at e-trading platform MarketAxess tells Matthew Attwood how the company's technology helps clients achieve regulatory compliance

Nick Themelis was pursuing his academic interest in art history when his brother, a software developer, introduced him to high-speed computers. He took to the technology world so readily that he found a junior job at a bank in Long Island before beginning a six-year stint at Morgan Stanley, where he built middle-office systems for the fixed income business. "There weren't a lot of computer science graduates then, so people with a liberal arts background were welcomed and put through a six-month