Eric Noll

Eric Noll is starting his third term as Chair of the Board of Governors of FINRA, the SRO that regulates broker/dealers in the United States. As of October 2024, Eric left Stone Ridge Capital Partners (formally known as Context Capital Partners) where he has been since 2019 to become the CEO of FusionIQ, a FinTech Firm providing cloud-based wealth management solutions for financial advisors and institutions.

In 2013, Eric was named President and CEO of Convergex, a global, institutional, agency Broker-dealer – one of the three largest in the world – headquartered in New York City.  The private equity-backed venture was successfully sold under Eric’s leadership in 2018.   Before Convergex, Eric was the Executive Vice-President, Transaction Services for NASDAQ, responsible for all NASDAQ’s global exchange businesses. After the sale of Convergex, Eric founded Willow Creek Capital, LLC, a firm providing advisory and consulting services to the financial technology, capital markets, and private equity space. With over two decades of experience in the financial services and financial technology space, Eric is a well-recognized industry expert on capital markets and has been twice named to the Institutional Investor Trading Technology list of Top 40 Executives in Financial Technology.  He also served on the SEC Equity Market Structure Task Force serving as the Chair of the Market Quality Sub-Committee.  Prior to NASDAQ, Eric worked for over 15 years at Susquehanna International Group, serving in many different capacities. Earlier in his career, Eric worked at Philadelphia Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange.

Along with Eric’s career accomplishments, in 2018, he was the Interim President of Franklin and Marshall College where he remains a long-standing Board member, currently serving as Chair of the Board. He is also the Chair of the Board of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a Governor of FINRA, a Trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University.

Eric earned his Masters of Business Administration from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, with a finance concentration. He received his A.B. from Franklin and Marshall College, with a double major in government and economics.