Kieran Northime

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Kieran Northime is the founder and CEO of Black Eye Technology. He previously headed the Exchange Solutions technology division for NYSE Technologies where he was responsible for the design, development and delivery of a number of market data feeds for Tier 1 exchanges in Europe, North America and Asia.

Prior to joining NYSE in 2008 Kieran worked for Wombat Financial Software where he helped establish Wombat in Europe in 2003 and was responsible for building out the Wombat European Feed Handler Suite. In 2007 he established and ran the Wombat Exchange Platform (WEP) division to build market data feeds for exchanges which later became the core software for the Exchange Data Publisher (XDP) sold and used internally by NYSE Technology.

Previous to Wombat, Kieran worked for over 13 years in the Asia/Pacific (APAC) region where he moved after graduating from University. While in APAC Kieran initially wrote TCP/IP stacks for a Japanese hardware company before working as a front office developer for a number of financial institutions in Tokyo and eventually running a systems integration division for Misys in Sydney which assisted clients throughout APAC with integration of their trading systems to Misys credit and market risk engines.