AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Sell-Side—Edwin Marcial, IntercontinentalExchange

Read the Waters Profile of Marcial from the October 2013 issue.
The day CEO Jeff Sprecher bought the company, Marcial walked into his office and announced that the programmers, who had elected him as spokesperson, would resign en masse unless they were allowed to rebuild the entire technology stack using Oracle, Java, and the internet. Sprecher acquiesced, then promoted Marcial shortly thereafter.
When a group of investors showed up to rescue the sputtering company, Marcial oversaw a breakneck
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