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Sean Brown · Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Sean Brown is President and Chief Executive Officer of YCharts. His background includes leading and growing technology businesses and developing the teams behind them. The company biography lists undergraduate study at Notre Dame and an MBA from Stanford.
Experience
President and CEOCurrent
YCharts · Chicago, IL
Jun 2016 – Present
YCharts (www.ycharts.com) offers wealth advisors and asset managers a fully AI-enabled platform that enables smarter investment decisions and better prospect/client communications. Our service is a combination of robust data, intuitive and powerful tools, and outstanding customer support. YCharts was acquired by PE firm LLR Partners in October, 2020, and has been on the Inc. 5000 list 9 consecutive years.
President and Managing Director
ICE · Chicago, IL
Dec 2013 – May 2016
7ticks was the fastest growing business unit of Interactive Data Corp (IDC), a Warburg Pincus / SilverLake Partners owned company. IDC was acquired in December, 2015 by the Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE, the parent company of NYSE), for $5.2B. 7ticks was the market leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider for multi-geography, multi-asset class trading. With nearly 15% market share, 7ticks offered buy-side and sell-side banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading desks an outsourced managed trading infrastructure which included low latency transport, direct market access, colocation/proximity hosting, and market data services. Full accountability for the strategy, operations and P&L of this high-growth business. During my tenure, 7ticks improved significantly on every measureable dimension • Grew recurring revenue ($40M+) ~15% CAGR and expanded EBITDA margins by 200bps annually • Exceeded signature targets by an average of 15% • Grew top 30 customer revenue by 15% per year • Improved monthly revenue turn-up capabilities by 25%, removing 9 months of backlog • Reduced major customer impacting incidents by >50% • Reduced employee attrition by 50% and increased satisfaction by 20 percentage points • Migrated business unit from a “solutions” focus to a product focus, rolling out new offerings • Won 3 Key Industry Awards: - Buy Side Technology’s “Best Low Latency Network” - Waters’ “Best Low Latency Data Feed Provider” - Inside Market Data’s “Best Low Latency Data Vendor”