Richard McVey

Richard Mitchell McVey (born January 2, 1959 ) is an American entrepreneur who is chairman and chief executive officer of MarketAxess, which operates an electronic trading platform for corporate bonds and other fixed-income products. and then received an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 1983.

McVey along with Richard Schiffman, founded MarketAxess in April 2000 and is chairman and chief executive officer. He originally proposed the business model for MarketAxess in 1999 as part of J.P. Morgan's Lab Morgan program, which was designed to back executives’ ideas for using web-based technology. He launched the company as an independent venture in 2000, after leading an initial funding round which raised $24 million in capital from JP Morgan and other market participants including Bear Stearns. They had previously announced their engagement in January 2018. McVey has three daughters from a previous marriage.

In 2020, he donated $20 million to Miami University for the construction of a data science building named after him which opened in February 2024.

In 2024, he donated $10 million to Colby College for the construction of a computational and data science building named after him.