Robert M. Hegarty
Managing Director, Market Structure
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Rob Hegarty is Managing Director, Market Structure at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. In this role, Rob is responsible for spearheading DTCC’s efforts to identify new market and growth opportunities focused on the buy-side, front-office, and trading communities. DTCC, through its subsidiaries, provides clearance, settlement and information services for equity, fixed income, mutual fund, money market, insurance, and derivative instruments. DTCC has operating facilities in multiple locations in the United States and overseas.
Rob has nearly 25 years of experience in the financial services technology industry. Prior to joining DTCC in April 2009, Rob was a Managing Director at TowerGroup, a leading provider of research and advisory services to the global financial services and technology industries. There he led two of TowerGroup’s practice areas: Securities & Investments and Insurance. Before joining TowerGroup in 1999, Rob was vice president of trading systems at Putnam Investments in Boston. Prior to Putnam, he was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for eight years, primarily responsible for technology for the institutional broker-dealer arm of Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Capital Markets. Previously, he was division vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and was with the IT management consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand's Boston office.
Quoted frequently by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, Forbes, Institutional Investor, Wall Street & Technology, Securities Industry News, and Global Investment Technology, Rob has been a featured speaker at dozens of industry conferences and appears regularly on CNBC-TV (U.S. and Europe), Bloomberg-TV, ABC-TV, and National Public Radio. Rob holds an M.B.A. with a finance/marketing concentration from Babson College and a B.S. in computer science from North Adams State College.