Dwight Koop

Current

• COO at CohesiveFT

Past

• Managing Director at MM Squared, LLC
• VP at Borland Software (Acq. Bedouin)
• Sr. Director at Newforth Partners, LLC

• COO at Signet Assurance
• EVP at The Swiss Bank Corporation
• Sr. V. P. at CBOE

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Education

• Northwestern University
• University of Colorado at Boulder

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Industry

Computer Software

Dwight Koop’s Summary

Dwight is the COO of CohesiveFT and RabbitMQ Services. His responsibilities include operation of the company's Elastic Service 24/7 web service for assembling and deploying virtual machines. He has 30 years in high tech investment banking and software technology, including senior management with Borland and The Swiss Bank Corp. One of the founders of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Founder of several early stage software tools and cryptography companies.

VPN-Cubed™ is the first commercial solution that enables customer-controlled security in a cloud, across multiple clouds, and between the physical data center and cloud(s). Using an encrypted cloud virtual private network (VPN), CohesiveFT helps establish a secure bridge between your private infrastructure and the cloud, controlled by you. With VPN-Cubed, you can confidently leverage the cloud for redundancy, failover and scalability during critical transitions; whether scaling up to grow the business or scaling down to cut costs.

CohesiveFT's products complement virtualization and cloud-computing solutions. Our Elastic Server® platform helps you create individual virtual servers, customized with components you choose, and deployed to the cloud or virtual environment of your choice. Check it out, the Community Edition is free!

CohesiveFT is one of InfoWeek's "Top 10 Technology Startups" and we were listed among InformationWeek's "top cloud computing startups you should know." Headquartered in Chicago, we have offices in London and Palo Alto.

Dwight Koop’s Specialties:

Accomplished serial entrepreneur with experience leading large and complex real-time technology businesses in and around the investment banking and capital markets industry.

Dwight Koop’s Experience

• COO

  CohesiveFT

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — Present (4 years )

  See CohesiveFT.com

• Managing Director

  MM Squared, LLC

  (Investment Banking industry)

  February 2004 — January 2006 (2 years )

  MM Squared specializes in electronic stock and options execution services - providing a global instantaneous trading services with facilities colocated at all major trading venues.

• VP

  Borland Software (Acq. Bedouin)

  (Investment Banking industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years )

• Sr. Director

  Newforth Partners, LLC

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Specialist in trading & market technology, software development life cycle tools, messaging infra, and security/cryptography sectors.

• COO

  Signet Assurance

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

• EVP

  The Swiss Bank Corporation

  (Investment Banking industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Responsible for Infra Architiecture, System Engineering, Networks, Security, and Data Center Operations for Trading and Markets Divisions.

• Sr. V. P.

  CBOE

  (Investment Banking industry)

  1972 — 1979 (7 years )

Dwight Koop’s Education

• Northwestern University

  MM , Finance - Financial Markets

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  BS , Business