Benjamin Londergan

Managing Director, Strategic Business Development

📍 Barrington Hills, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jan 2017
CarAdvise is the nations leading online platform for automotive maintenance and repair services. Consumers and fleets alike leverage our proprietary technology to make car care a more trustworthy, convenient and affordable process. As the only marketplace with integration into a nationwide network of 20,000 shops, our users can locate a shop, compare prices, approve services, and pay all from the convenience of their smartphone. CarAdvise users also receive unparalleled access to discounted pricing reserved for the countrys largest fleets. Plus, every order is supported by our team of ASE certified technicians to provide advice and protect you from unnecessary work. Simply put, CarAdvise is the smarter way to care for your car.
Board Member
Jan 2016
MIAX Options, MIAX PEARL and MIAX Emerald are fully electronic options trading exchanges and wholly-owned subsidiaries of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) that comprise the MIAX Exchange Group. The MIAX Exchange Group assembled a team with deep rooted experience in developing, operating and trading on options exchanges, and its trading platforms were developed in-house and designed from the ground up for the unique functional and performance demands of derivatives trading. MIAX Options, MIAX PEARL and MIAX Emerald leverage the MIAX Exchange Group’s industry-leading technology and infrastructure to provide their member firms with both traditional and maker-taker pricing structures. With the launch of MIAX Emerald, the MIAX Exchange Group now has access to approximately 80% of the overall U.S. options market volume. On February 21, 2019 MIAX Options launched options on the SPIKES™ Volatility Index. SPIKES™ is a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY), the most actively-traded exchange traded fund in the world. SPIKES™ was developed by T3 Index (T3), a research-driven indexing firm that develops proprietary indexes as part of a partnership with MIH. The MIAX Exchange Group’s executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, NJ, with a Miami Operations Center, Annual Meeting and Conference Center, and offices for MIAX Technologies and MIAX Global, two other MIH subsidiaries, located in Miami, FL.
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2024
Managing Director, Strategic Business Development
Mar 2024
As a leading, technology-driven, proprietary trading firm, we work with the most advanced technology and software in the market. Since 2004, we’ve continued to remain at the forefront of the industry by driving innovation, automation and financial opportunity through: TECHNOLOGY: We build proprietary software to create and capitalize on financial opportunity. TRADING: We optimize trading strategies for existing markets and develop new strategies to best capitalize on financial market opportunity. TEAM: We combine talented and dedicated technologists with data-driven traders to solve constantly evolving puzzles in the marketplace. Our employees are truly our greatest asset. We’ve spent years building our team of talented and dedicated technologists, data-driven traders and leaders who emulate our core values. Interested in joining an open, collaborative team that allows your talents to shine? We’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest! To view our available job postings please visit www.simplextrading.com/careers
2021
Managing Director of Optios Finance
Nov 2021
Our core mission is to leverage neuroscience to help customers dramatically improve their performance. But we are also part of something bigger. Neuroscience will soon allow us to fundamentally alter the human experience—giving us access to nearly unimaginable capabilities ... along with the opportunity to meaningfully elevate what it means to be human. And with this, the neuroperformance industry will create trillions of dollars in value. Optios is a beacon—a trustable source—in this emerging industry. Why? Because everything we do, everything we claim, is grounded in rigorous science. Our methods include doing our own authentic, first-person research into the technology and providers. We hire leading experts in the areas we analyze. We create our own proprietary deep technology tools that create robust analysis. We do a deep study of client’s operations to provide personalized recommendations that fit our client’s business objectives and investment return needs.
2018
Managing Director
Aug 2018
Were In The Business Of What Ought To Be The business of doing, creating, and building the world the way we see fit. We seek out the transformational opportunity, making it better, more useful, more valuable. At PEAK6, we activate what is into what ought to be through world-class technology, operational excellence and purposeful design. Headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade Building, PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through technology, simplifying processes, improving performance and creating new wealth.
2017
Board Member
Jan 2017
CarAdvise is the nations leading online platform for automotive maintenance and repair services. Consumers and fleets alike leverage our proprietary technology to make car care a more trustworthy, convenient and affordable process. As the only marketplace with integration into a nationwide network of 20,000 shops, our users can locate a shop, compare prices, approve services, and pay all from the convenience of their smartphone. CarAdvise users also receive unparalleled access to discounted pricing reserved for the countrys largest fleets. Plus, every order is supported by our team of ASE certified technicians to provide advice and protect you from unnecessary work. Simply put, CarAdvise is the smarter way to care for your car.
2016
Board Member
Jan 2016
MIAX Options, MIAX PEARL and MIAX Emerald are fully electronic options trading exchanges and wholly-owned subsidiaries of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) that comprise the MIAX Exchange Group. The MIAX Exchange Group assembled a team with deep rooted experience in developing, operating and trading on options exchanges, and its trading platforms were developed in-house and designed from the ground up for the unique functional and performance demands of derivatives trading. MIAX Options, MIAX PEARL and MIAX Emerald leverage the MIAX Exchange Group’s industry-leading technology and infrastructure to provide their member firms with both traditional and maker-taker pricing structures. With the launch of MIAX Emerald, the MIAX Exchange Group now has access to approximately 80% of the overall U.S. options market volume. On February 21, 2019 MIAX Options launched options on the SPIKES™ Volatility Index. SPIKES™ is a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY), the most actively-traded exchange traded fund in the world. SPIKES™ was developed by T3 Index (T3), a research-driven indexing firm that develops proprietary indexes as part of a partnership with MIH. The MIAX Exchange Group’s executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, NJ, with a Miami Operations Center, Annual Meeting and Conference Center, and offices for MIAX Technologies and MIAX Global, two other MIH subsidiaries, located in Miami, FL.
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