Jeff Sprecher is Founder, Chair and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) and a pioneer of digital networks and the electronification of trading and marketplaces. Reflecting Sprecher’s vision and leadership, ICE has grown from a startup in 2000, to a Fortune 500 company which operates exchanges and clearinghouses around the world, provides market-leading solutions in fixed income and data services, and is transforming the mortgage industry. Now in its third decade, the company that Sprecher and his team have built, delivers over $9 billion in annual revenue with market capitalization of over $100 billion. Sprecher began by spotting inefficiencies in the power market and resolving to fix them. Intercontinental Exchange was born, eventually going public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005 under the ticker symbol ICE. A string of innovations and acquisitions quickly followed, beginning with buying the International Petroleum Exchange in 2001, the New York Board of Trade in 2007, Creditex in 2008, the Clearing Corporation in 2009 the Climate Exchange in 2010 and the NYSE itself in 2013. The deals Sprecher put together created what are now known as ICE Futures Europe, ICE Clear Europe, ICE Futures U.S., and ICE Clear U.S., and led to a reimagination and expansion of the NYSE, now known as NYSE Group. ICE’s major acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation in 2015 and a string of deals in the mortgage space have coalesced into two other business segments -- ICE Fixed Income and Data Services, and ICE Mortgage Technology -- together forming today’s company. Sprecher is often credited with “seeing around corners” in the intersecting world of finance and technology. Sprecher’s launch of Bakkt in 2018 foresaw expanded adoption of bitcoin and digital assets. Sprecher has been hailed as one of Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” for six consecutive years, among a host of other honors and awards for his leadership and philanthropy.