Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, GTS
Ari Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GTS, an industry leading trading and technology firm.
Under his leadership, GTS has grown from a start-up proprietary trading firm into an international company that trades over 30,000 different financial instruments globally and is a leading Designated Market Maker at the New York Stock Exchange.
On any given day, GTS’ proprietary systems trade as much as a billion shares of U.S. equities and through its retail and ETF market making business, GTS touches virtually every trading household in the United States. Since in inception, Mr. Rubenstein and his colleagues have built GTS into what is today a leading quantitative trading firm that leverages the best in artificial intelligence systems and innovative pricing models to bring consistency, efficiency, and transparency to today’s financial markets.
Mr. Rubenstein is a vocal supporter of the efficiency and democratization of modern markets and an outspoken advocate for thoughtful, intelligent, and data-driven regulation. He has appeared before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee and the Securities & Exchange Commission, testifying on key market structure issues, including the importance of publicly listed companies in driving job creation, capital raising and economic growth.