Erica Attonito

Erica is the Head of CMM sales and a senior member of the Business Development team at Hudson River Trading (HRT). Since joining HRT back in 2017, Erica has been responsible for growing the firm’s off-exchange liquidity offering including launching our SDP and retail wholesale business and managing trading relationships with brokers, exchanges and other market centers across asset classes. Erica was recently named the Women’s ERG Lead at HRT where she works closely with women colleagues at the firm.

Previously, Erica spent a decade in various key roles at Knight Capital/KCG Holdings, where she rose to the role of Managing Director in the Electronic Trading Group. Among her responsibilities and accomplishments, she was charged with selling access to Knight/KCG’s dark pools, building Knight Match/Matchit and growing Knight Link to one of the leading off-exchange liquidity pools in the U.S. market. She was also a member of the Women’s Professional Network and Mentoring Program.

Erica sits on the MEMX Exchange Board and is a member of The National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP) and The Security Traders Association of New York (STANY) where she has been a member for over 14 years. Most recently Erica was asked to serve as a member of the NYSE and NYSE American Director Candidate Recommendation Committees (DCRCs). At the outset of her career, Erica handled numerous networking and telecommunications responsibilities at BT Radianz, MCI Worldcom, XO Communications and AT&T Broadband.

Erica holds a B.A. in political science from Loyola University (Md.), where she was an NCAA Division I All-American on the school’s top-ranked lacrosse team. She is also active in charitable causes including Wall Street Rides FAR (For Autism Research) and The Friends of Sean Lugano, which helps those in need while honoring a friend who lost his life in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001. Erica lives in Bronxville, NY with her husband Rob and 4 daughters; Reese, Charlotte, Alexandra and Grayson.