Brad Levy is chief executive of ThetaRay, the company whose AI monitors transactions and screens payments for banks, fintechs, and payment providers. He took the role in January 2026 after a career building the infrastructure that financial markets run on.
Eighteen Years at Goldman Sachs
Levy spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, ending as managing director and global head of the Principal Strategic Investments group. That team backed the market infrastructure and technology companies that banks themselves depend on, which gave him a view of financial plumbing from the investor’s side.
Running Market Infrastructure
He then spent eight years at IHS Markit, now part of S&P Global, in senior roles that included chief executive of MarkitSERV, the trade processing business. After that he joined Symphony, the secure communication and workflow platform used across financial markets, and spent almost six years there, the last five as chief executive. He won CEO of the Year at the 2022 Markets Choice Awards.
Taking Over ThetaRay
ThetaRay appointed him in January 2026. He succeeded Peter Reynolds, who had led the company since June 2023 and stepped down for family reasons to become an adviser. ThetaRay now reports more than 100 institutional customers and more than $20 trillion in monitored transactions, and it competes with NICE Actimize, Featurespace, and Hawk.
For a company that sells to the largest banks, a chief executive who has spent his career inside their infrastructure is a deliberate choice. His task is to make AI-driven compliance as ordinary a part of the banking stack as the trade processing and messaging systems he ran before.
