NYSE Appoints Cunningham COO

Prior to her most recent role as president of NYSE Governance Services, Cunningham was head of sales and relationship management for NYSE Group.

In the COO role, Cunningham will focus on a customer-led approach to strategy and development as she oversees a number of markets and departments: the group's cash equities venues, relationship management, product management, and governance services already under her purview. Adam Sodwick, that unit's COO, will now take over her prior role as president.

As operations chief, Cunningham will oversee the rollout of Pillar, an integrated trading technology platform that will enable customers to connect to all of NYSE Group’s equities and options markets using a single specification. In addition, she will advance the introduction of the NYSE Midday Auction, providing market participants with the opportunity to aggregate trading interest in lower volume securities in the middle of the trading day, complementing the opening and closing auctions.

“With ongoing changes to the US equities market, Stacey’s appointment adds to the strength of the New York Stock Exchange’s leadership team and intensifies our focus on our customers,” says Farley. “The NYSE today is rapidly evolving as a customer and technology-driven financial services leader. Stacey will contribute to our work on enhancing and simplifying our equities platforms, advocating for listed companies and our trading customers in market structure discussions, and innovating to deliver more value to the global capital markets.”

Stacey will contribute to our work on enhancing and simplifying our equities platforms, advocating for listed companies and our trading customers in market structure discussions, and innovating to deliver more value to the global capital markets.