Widely recognized as an innovator and financial industry visionary, Edelstein has turned start-ups into industry leaders, led successful turnarounds, and demonstrated the ability to create significant shareholder value while serving as CEO of Thomson Financial ESG during the late 1990s. He pioneered electronic trade confirmation in the U.S. while at Thomson and subsequently at Omgeo, which became the industry standard for post-trade processing. In 2003, as CEO of Radianz, now the financial network services division of BT, Edelstein saw the enormous potential of cloud computing and played a key role in motivating the financial industry to embrace cloud-based services. Thereafter, Edelstein led a corporate turnaround at NYFIX, a strategic rebuild of BondDesk Group on behalf of private equity investors, and a carve-out of REDI Global Technologies from Goldman Sachs. All were eventually sold to larger industry players.
Edelstein has been the recipient of numerous industry awards. In 2008, he was named one of the “15 Who Made a Difference” in the 15th anniversary issue of Waters Magazine. He also received Global Custodian’s FINTECH 25-Year Legends Award in 2010 for his innovations and overall industry contributions. More recently, Institutional Investor Magazine named Edelstein to its "Trading Tech 40" list and to its “Fintech Finance 35” ranking of industry financiers.
