Stephen O'Connor

Nasdaq - AVP - Product Strategy

Evanston, Illinois, United States

About

I am a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the trading industry. I have a unique perspective and deep knowledge to analyze the derivatives trading landscape. Leveraging a career of success in building and leading trading businesses, I specialize in identifying market drivers, decomposing market structure, and developing actionable strategies to enhance performance. An advocate personality with a transformational leadership style, I excel at inspiring teams to embrace change, sharpen focus, and work collaboratively toward common goals. Intellectually curious, I thrive on understanding and improving complex systems of all kinds. My expertise includes distilling large, multidimensional data sets into clear, actionable insights, ensuring stakeholders can make informed decisions. I am an expert in Excel and data visualization, with hands-on experience using relational databases, SQL, R, Python, and machine learning models to solve challenging problems. I also embrace AI as an integral part of my workflow — leveraging it daily to accelerate coding, deepen research, and develop strategy.

Experience

  • Product Strategy - US Options at Nasdaq
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Founding Partner at One Run LLC
    Sep 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 10 mos

    Software design firm producing infrastructure and algorithms for use in the field of predictive analytics.

  • Member - Owner at Stretch Anaytics, LLC
    Dec 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Specializing in analyzing market structure and the competitive landscape of the U.S. equity derivatives industry.

  • Head of Trading at Hull Tactical Asset Allocation (HTAA)
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • VP of Analytics, Automation, & Innovation at Purchasing Platform, Inc.
    Jun 2020 - May 2023 · 3 yrs

    Create actionable business intelligence reporting to every functional area of rapidly growing B2B eCommerce platform. Built scalable maintenance-free data transformations and visualization combining internal and external data sources to help manage $50mm service-based business. Developed dynamic pricing models, inventory management automations, and demand elasticity measures for 250k SKU product-based business.