William Goodbody

William K. Goodbody, Jr., Chief Operating Officer & Head of Sales, oversees KCG Hotspot, the company’s institutional electronic foreign exchange offering. He has extensive experience managing multi-asset class trading products and is an expert in global market structures.

KCG is a leading independent securities firm offering investors a range of services designed to address trading needs across asset classes, product types and time zones. The firm combines advanced technology with exceptional client service across market making, agency execution and venues. KCG has multiple access points to trade global equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities via voice or automated execution.

Bill has been managing Hotspot since 2008. He has been with the company for more than 18 years in various capacities, including Head of Market Structure and Exchange Strategy, Business Manager of the Broker-Dealer Client Group, and Co-Head of Client Services for Knight Capital Group prior to that company’s merger with GETCO in July 2013 to form KCG. Additionally, he was First Vice President at Jefferies & Company, Inc. from 2004 to 2006, where he served as the Director of Equities Sales & Trading Technology before returning to Knight.

Bill has been a member of numerous financial services industry committees, including SIFMA’s Equity Markets & Trading Committee and the STA’s Trading Issues Committee, and he served as a director on the boards of NSX Holdings, Inc. and the National Stock Exchange, Inc.