Joe Nadan, Ph.D.President and CEO Tori Inc
Joe has 25+ years experience within the Financial Services and Consumer Electronics Industries. To compliment his strong technical skills, Joe has very strong leadership and people management skills and has had budgetary responsibility in excess of $500 million and responsibility for 2500+ staff based worldwide.
Joe received a Ph.D. in Electrical / Computer Engineering from the City University of New York and stayed on and won a National Science Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award. Joe then became Scientific Consultant to the President of Philips Laboratories, in charge of US Consumer Electronics Research and Development. While at Philips he finished the Executive MBA program, where he specialized in Consumer Behavior in Accepting New Electronic Technologies. Dr. Nadan received the 2002 Emmy for Scientific and Technological Advancement for his invention and advancement of 16:9 HDTV.
Joe entered the Financial Services industry as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and New York Operations of the Rich Division of Reuters where he created, implemented and installed Triarch, the first digital information delivery platform used in trading rooms. He then became COO of Market Data Corporation, an affiliated company of Cantor-Fitzgerald, where for the next ten years he designed, implemented and installed numerous Fixed Income "Broker Support Systems" which later became known as electronic trading. Joe next became CTO of AIG Technologies. In this role he introduced numerous business process improvements and advanced ITIL as the framework for improving IT Service Management. Joe left to become CTO of GTECH Corporation - the world's largest provider of online lottery systems, before becoming CEO of TORI Inc.
Areas of expertise
- Organizational Assessment and Development
- Business Process Improvement including Program and Project Risk management
- Technology Management (Development and Infrastructure)
- Business and IT strategy development and implementation
- Innovation Programs


