Cummings told Nasdaq Chief Executive Robert Greifeld that summer that he planned to form his own ECN, and, as Cummings recalls, Greifeld brushed him off by telling him that it would be harder than he thought.
The accommodations are poet-titled (e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost) and luxurious, with balconies, wood-burning fireplaces, and sumptuous marble bathrooms.