Brad Levy

Chief Executive Officer ThetaRay

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Brad Levy is Chief Executive Officer of ThetaRay, which sells AI-powered transaction monitoring and due diligence software to banks, fintechs and payment providers for financial crime compliance. He took the role in January 2026, succeeding Peter Reynolds. He came to ThetaRay from Symphony, the financial markets communication and workflow platform, which he ran as CEO from June 2021. Before that he was CEO of MarkitSERV at IHS Markit, and he spent about 18 years at Goldman Sachs. His career has been spent in the infrastructure that banks share, not in any single bank’s front office.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Executive Officer of ThetaRay in January 2026. His predecessor, Peter Reynolds, had been CEO since June 2023 and moved to an advisory role.
• Chief Executive Officer of Symphony from 1 June 2021, when founder David Gurle retired from the post.
• Joined Symphony in July 2020 as President and Chief Commercial Officer.
• Partner and executive at IHS Markit, where he was CEO of the derivatives processing business MarkitSERV and global head of loan settlement and software services.
• Managing Director and global head of the Principal Strategic Investments Group at Goldman Sachs.
• Named CEO of the Year at the 2022 Markets Choice Awards.

Professional Journey

Levy spent about 18 years at Goldman Sachs and finished there as managing director and global head of the firm’s Principal Strategic Investments Group.

He then moved to IHS Markit as a partner. The TRADE reports that he ran MarkitSERV, IHS Markit’s derivatives trade processing business, for eight years. He was also global head of the company’s loan settlement and software services division. Symphony’s 2020 announcement described him as Chairman Emeritus of FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, and as a member of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee and chair of its Distributed Ledger Subcommittee. Institutional Investor ranked him fourth on its 2018 Trading Tech 40 list.

In July 2020 he joined Symphony as President and Chief Commercial Officer. Symphony, founded by David Gurle in 2014, was built as a secure messaging and collaboration platform for financial services and had raised more than $510 million. In April 2021 the company announced that Gurle would retire as CEO and that Levy would take over on 1 June 2021. The following year he was named CEO of the Year at the Markets Choice Awards.

In January 2026 ThetaRay named him Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. ThetaRay builds AI-based anti-money laundering and financial crime compliance software and has offices in New York, London and Tel Aviv. Peter Reynolds, its CEO since June 2023, stepped down for family reasons and stayed on in an advisory role during the handover. Levy said on his appointment that his focus was on scaling the platform globally and deepening its partnerships with financial institutions.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or dated press source.