Mr. Douglas A. Cifu, also known as Doug, has been the Chief Executive Officer at KCG Holdings, Inc. since July 20, 2017. Mr. Cifu has been the Chief Executive Officer of Virtu Financial, Inc. since November 2013. His experience as a corporate attorney provides with valuable insight regarding acquisitions, debt financings, equity financings and public markets. Mr. Cifu co-founded Vincent Viola in 2008. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtu Financial LLC and Virtu Financial, Inc. since 2008. Prior to the founding of Virtu Financial, LLC in 2008, he was a Partner in the Corporate Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Co-Head of the Internet, Media and Technology Group. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Corporate Department and Head of the Private Equity Group of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Mr. Cifu has worked on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, joint ventures and licensing transactions. He represents a number of leading venture capital firms in structuring and negotiating their investments in Internet, media and technology companies. Mr. Cifu also represents a number of Internet companies in various stages of development in a wide variety of financing, strategic and other transactions. He regularly represents the world's largest private equity investment fund focused exclusively on Internet and information technology in numerous transactions. Mr. Cifu also represents public companies in their merger and acquisition activities. He represented a major provider of end-to-end optical network and Internet infrastructure solutions in all of its merger and acquisition activity including more than $4 billion of acquisitions in the last 12 months and in connection with its signing of definitive agreements with one of the world's leading telecommunications services providers, to sell up to 19.9 percent of its stock for $1.7 billion. He has been a Director of Independent Bank Group, Inc. since 2008 and its Lead Independent Director since 2013. He has been a Director of KCG Holdings, Inc. since July 20, 2017. He has been a Director of Virtu Financial, Inc. since November 2013. He has been a Director of Virtu Financial LLC since 2008. He served as Director of SBI Japannext Co., Ltd. since July 5, 2016. He was named to Crain's New York Business Technology 100. He was a Member of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of the Willen Memorial Political Science Prize and was a Dean's List student. Mr. Cifu received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1990 and a B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science in 1987 from Columbia College.