Terry Thorsen is co-founder and CTO of ChartIQ. In 1994, he wrote the first online trading system which later became Ameritrade. He then went on to found Automated Financial Systems, a provider of financial software to banks and brokerages. He has held senior management positions at SunGard and Brokat AG. He co-founded ChartIQ in 2012 out of a barn in rural Virginia. The firm won the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council’s Business of the Year Award.