Optiver is pleased to announce the appointment of Lance Braunstein as Global Chief Technology Officer, effective 1 May 2025. Lance will join as a member of the Executive Committee and Partner, based in the New York office.

In this newly-created role, reporting to CEO Jan Boomaars, Lance will drive a unified global technology strategy across business lines and regions, working closely with regional CTOs.

“I’m excited to join the team and I look forward to continuing the tradition of engineering excellence that has long been central to Optiver’s success,” said Lance. “This is an opportunity to evolve the resilience, scale and performance of Optiver’s platform, while leveraging emerging technologies to innovate at a moment of significant growth for the firm.”

Lance brings extensive experience in building and managing technology platforms at leading financial institutions. Most recently, he served as Head of Aladdin Engineering at BlackRock, overseeing the design, product management, development and operation of the firm’s investment management technology platform. Prior to that, he was Chief Information Officer at E-Trade, where he developed a world-class options trading platform. He has also held senior technology leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Lance holds an MBA from The Wharton School, a Master of Science from Colorado State University, and a Mathematics degree from the University of Rochester.

“As a global market-making firm, technology is at the core of what we do,” said Optiver CEO Jan Boomaars. “Lance’s leadership will help us further enhance our agility, drive greater efficiency, and foster continued innovation in our mission to improve the market.”

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About Optiver

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with more than 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.