John O'Hara

Current

• Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Past

• Executive Director and Distinguished Engineer at JPMorgan
• Vice President at JPMorgan
• Architect for Global Equities at Bankers Trust

• CTO at Arcordia Solutions Ltd
• Vice President at JPMorgan

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Education

• Aston University

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Connections

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Industry

Investment Banking

John O'Hara’s Summary

Experience

Delivered compelling solutions in the financial industry, including autotrading, global order management, and derivatives processing systems through to innovative firmwide strategies for data management, communications and effective shared technology platforms.

Goal

My goal is to provide leadership in the application of technology as a competitive differentiator for challenging businesses.

John O'Hara’s Specialties:

Equities, F&O, credit and rates, vendor management, delivering scalable resilient large systems. Solid experience deploying many mature and emerging technologies.

John O'Hara’s Experience

• Director

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch

  (Public Company; BAC; Financial Services industry)

  November 2009 — Present (1 month)

  Chief Architect for Global Equity Technology

• Executive Director and Distinguished Engineer

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Banking industry)

  February 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 10 months)

  Managed and architected several multi-million dollar technology transformation programs for the Equities and Rates business.
  
  Originated the AMQP industry initiative (www.amqp.org) to create a pragmatic, standardised middleware to underpin long term high performance service oriented architectures.

• Vice President

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  January 2001 — February 2007 (6 years 2 months)

  Chief Architect for Equities, Futures and Options and Prime Brokerage.

• Architect for Global Equities

  Bankers Trust

  (Public Company; BT; Financial Services industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

• CTO

  Arcordia Solutions Ltd

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

  January 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 9 months)

  Arcordia Solutions was a JPMorgan spin-off selling IB processing services for complex products and derivatives.

• Vice President

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

  February 1993 — January 1998 (5 years )

  Various positions and roles.