Roger Burkhardt Ingres Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer
Roger Burkhardt serves as Ingres Corporation’s president and chief executive officer. In this role, he is responsible for corporate strategy, development and engineering, and global field operations including marketing, sales and support, alliance and channels, and customer programs. Mr. Burkhardt also serves on the company’s Board of Directors.
Mr. Burkhardt joined Ingres from the New York Stock Exchange, where as Chief Technology Officer and EVP for the past six years, he led a global technology team of 2,000 colleagues through the most important business and technology transformation in the Exchange’s history: the shift to electronic trading. Under his leadership, the NYSE embraced open source solutions, maintained world-class reliability standards, and increased transaction volumes seven-fold.
Prior to the NYSE, Mr. Burkhardt was president of listed equities for OptiMark Technologies, a developer of electronic trading technology that was adopted by more than 80 percent of the top 200 trading firms in the United States. He had earlier served 15 years with IBM, where he held several leadership positions in engineering, sales and business development. Most recently, he served as director of capital markets, IBM Banking, Finance and Securities, where he ran a $250 million business unit serving the needs of the Wall Street banking community.
Mr. Burkhardt holds an MBA in finance from New York University and both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics from Oxford University. A former member of the IBM Advisory Board, Mr. Burkhardt is recognized by Wall Street and technology innovators worldwide for his customer advocacy work and thought leadership.