Bios for 2026 Annual Conference Speakers
Chen Arad
Co-Founder and CXO
Solidus Labs
Chen Arad is the Co-founder and Chief External Affairs Officer (CXO) of Solidus Labs, an AI-powered trade surveillance and compliance solutions provider. Named a category-definer for market surveillance by Citigroup, Solidus Labs equips financial institutions, digital asset firms, and regulators with cross-asset risk monitoring solutions to detect and prevent market manipulation and financial crime in today’s most complex trading environments. The firm monitors more than 250 million trading events daily, analyzing $16 trillion in value, and protecting approximately 25 million retail and institutional entities.
As CXO, Chen leads Solidus Labs’ external affairs, including regulatory strategy, industry partnerships, and strategic communications, working closely with global policymakers and financial institutions to enhance market integrity standards across digital and traditional finance. He is an appointed member of the U.S. CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee, a Founding Advisory Council Member and Market Integrity Chair of Global Digital Finance (GDF)—where he spearheaded the development of industry-wide integrity and surveillance frameworks. He is also a winner of the New York Department of Financial Services’ Virtual Asset Supervision Tech Sprint and a founder of the Digital Asset Compliance and Market Integrity Summit.
Chen also led the launch of the Crypto Market Integrity Coalition (CMIC)—a non-profit initiative co-founded with leading financial firms such as Coinbase and Circle. CMIC brings together financial market participants to strengthen market integrity standards, with over 50 members, including 30 trading platforms committed to its integrity pledge. A recognized industry commentator, Chen regularly appears on CNBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, CoinDesk TV, and other major media outlets, providing insights on market integrity, financial regulation, and risk monitoring.
John Barreiro
Vice President, Sales
HPR
John Barreiro (“JB") is Vice President of Sales at HPR, a comprehensive platform-as-a-service provider pioneering hardware and high-performance software-based trading infrastructure for global capital markets.
He brings more than 15 years of experience in electronic trading and equities market structure. Prior to HPR, JB spent over a decade at Cboe Global Markets, most recently as Senior Director and Head of U.S. Equities Sales, where he led sales strategy and client relationships across multiple U.S. equities exchanges, market data products, and connectivity services.
JB has extensive experience working with banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, and proprietary trading firms, helping clients navigate market structure and adopt high-performance trading infrastructure. 
Maisa Badawy
Global Head of Equity Capital Markets
Capital Group
Maisa Badawy is Head of Global Equity Capital Markets at Capital Group and Senior Vice President of Capital Research and Management Company. She has 24 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 15 years. Prior to joining Capital, Maisa was a primary trader with Fidelity Management & Research Company. Before that, she was an associate in the brokerage development program at Fidelity Capital Markets. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® accreditation. Maisa is based in New York.
Ric Best
Head of Event Contracts and Prediction Markets
Susquehanna
Ric Best joined Susquehanna in 2014, where he has spent his entire career. In 2023, Susquehanna became the first major financial institution to launch a dedicated trading desk for Event Contracts and Prediction Markets, which Mr. Best has led since its inception. Under his leadership, Susquehanna has become the industry leader in providing institutional liquidity across multiple venues and now trades Event Contracts on a diverse range of topics, including crypto, elections, and financial indices.
Robert Bowles
Distribution and Liquidity Management
XTX Markets
Rob is part of the XTX distribution team, responsible for the acquisition and liquidity management of their FX, European equities and US equities franchise. Prior to this, he spent 4.5 years at EBS, firstly as a relationship manager and then moving into product, focused on the central limit order book and API customers.
Shelly Brown
Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development
MIAX
Shelly Brown has served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development since April 2011. Prior to joining MIH, he served as the Director of Business Management for PEAK 6 Investments, a Chicago-based trading firm, where he was head of options execution. Prior to joining PEAK 6, Shelly held a number of positions in the financial markets including as Associate Vice President at NASDAQ OMX and Vice President, Derivatives Trading Strategy at PHLX, and Manager of Options Trading Systems and co-head of Options Business Development at Susquehanna International Group, LLC. While at Susquehanna, he was a member of the PHLX Electronic Trading Committee and the Cboe Screen-Based Trading Committee. Prior to joining Susquehanna, he was a founder and Managing Director of Risk Information Systems and Consulting.
Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Esq.
CEO
The Cambridge Group
Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Esq., is a highly regarded adviser and former C-Suite executive with significant operational and change management experience. She is CEO of The Cambridge Group LLC, a strategy and risk management, and professional development advisory firm consulting with financial services firms, fintechs, executives, etc. Agnes advises on a myriad of topics including M&A, AI, risk and compliance, privacy, strategy and change management. Previously, Agnes served as the Northeast Regional Director of Supervision Examinations for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As Regional Director, Agnes managed the regional NYC office and represented the CFPB Supervision mission on all matters relating to conducting consumer financial protection supervision and examinations at a complex depository and non-depository financial services companies. The 32 financial institutions and 25 companies under her regulatory authority had assets totaling over $6T. Earlier, Agnes worked in various executive and control functions as well as lending roles at TD Bank, Bank of America and FleetBoston. Agnes also served as counsel at Goodwin Procter and at the United States Senate Budget Committee; and she was also a defense lobbyist for Fairchild Republic Company. In these various roles, Agnes managed large staffs and teams with P&L responsibilities. Agnes is an independent director with Truist Financial Corporation (chair of the nominating & governance, and member of the executive and risk committees); AppFolio, Inc., (chair of risk & compliance oversight, and member of audit and nominating committees); and, privately-held iCapital, Inc. (chair of audit and risk committee). She is vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s Compliance Management Subcommittee. Agnes is a board member with the Future of Privacy Forum, and New England National Association of Corporate Directors. She was selected for inclusion in Boston Business Journal’s Most Powerful Women and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Agnes is the former chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ Consumer Advisory Council, and former (and founding) chairman of International Association of Privacy Professionals. Agnes holds a J.D. from Georgetown and an A.B. from Smith. She is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Bars of the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the Bar of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. A believer in continuous learning, Agnes is currently enrolled in two 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) certification courses and has recently completed certification courses such as the NACD US Secret Service Cybersecurity, Diligent’s Climate Risk, Oxford and Cambridge Universities’ Digital Transformation and Disruption; Harvard University and NACD’s Cybersecurity Oversight; and MIT’s AI.
Richard Carleton
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Securities Exchange
Richard Carleton was appointed CEO of the Canadian Securities Exchange in July 2011. Since then, Richard and the CSE team have positioned the exchange to take a leading role in the provision of public capital to entrepreneurial companies, and in the process, set a series of records for new listings, capital raised by issuers and trading turnover. An advocate for the public markets, Richard has been recognized for his contributions by a number of industry associations, and is a regular commentator on capital formation and market structure issues in Canada and around the world.
In addition to his responsibilities with the CSE, Richard is a director of Safe Harbor Financial, a Nasdaq-listed financial services company, Blue Ocean ATS, a US-registered ATS offering trading in US NMS stocks between 8 pm and 4 am EST, and Tetra Trust Company, Canada’s first recognized custodian for digital assets. Association. He is a past member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s “Market Structure Advisory Committee”.
A member of the Law Society of Ontario since 1987, Richard is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (B.A. ’81) and the University of Toronto (LL.B. ’85). He has also completed the executive development programme at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Davies
Cofounder and CEO
S3
Mark Davies is Co-Founder and CEO of S3, a full–service compliance and trade analytics software. He is responsible for the organization’s business strategy, the executive team and has oversight of the company’s day-to-day operations, including client relations, sales, and business development.
A financial services executive with over 15 years experience in fintech and regtech, Mr. Davies has deep industry knowledge in trading technology, particularly trade surveillance, best execution analysis, and regulatory reporting. Currently, Mark is leading the industry on market structure and regulatory reporting requirements for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Rule 606 under Reg NMS and is sought after for his subject matter expertise.
Mr. Davies co-founded S3 in 2001. In 2004, S3 launched its first trading analytics product, redefining S3’s core business. Since then, under Mr. Davies guidance, S3 has improved trust in the industry through appropriate and intelligent disclosure via regulatory reporting and analytics.
Mr. Davies holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children.
David Doorman
Head of ATS & Retail Coordination
Dash Financial
David Dooman is responsible for leading DASH’s business development initiatives around its options ATS and retail order flow consolidation platform. Dave joined DASH in 2017 as part of the merger with Convergex’s Liquidpoint division. Prior to joining DASH, he spent over 12 years with LiquidPoint in a variety of sales, business development, and product roles. He began his career as a clerk and later as a trader at several option trading firms.
Esteban Fajardo
Head of Execution Research
Balyasny Asset Management
Esteban Fajardo is Head of Execution Research at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), based in New York. He joined BAM in 2024 from Citi, where he led the equities execution advisory services team. He began his career at Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in the Debt Management Office. Esteban holds bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and M.S. degrees in Operations Research and Computer Science. He is fluent in Spanish.
John Fennell
Chief Risk Officer Head of Clearing Operations
EDX Markets
John Fennell is the Chief Risk Officer/Head of Clearing Operations of EDX Markets, a U.S.-based digital asset exchange and clearinghouse designed for institutional investors backed by some of the largest global financial services company (Citadel, Virtu, Fidelity and Schwab). EDX operates with a market structure modeled more closely on traditional equities and futures markets than on typical retail crypto exchanges. Prior to joining EDX, John served as the Chief Risk Officer for the Options Clearing Corporation where he lead industry changing initiatives delivering risk reducing and capital efficient solutions for the U.S. options markets and its Members for over 25 years.
Dmitri Galinov
Founder and CEO
24 Exchange
Dmitri Galinov is a proven financial technology entrepreneur and senior executive who has launched and built several successful FinTech platforms and companies over the past two decades. He is a passionate advocate for innovative information technologies that enhance financial industry transparency and accessibility.
Dmitri is the founder and CEO of 24 Exchange, the world’s first 24/7 trading platform that since 2019 has been providing institutional customers with access to reliable, cost-efficient trading of a growing set of asset classes.
Prior to his founding of 24 Exchange, Dmitri served as founder and CEO of FastMatch, the fastest-growing electronic communication network for spot foreign exchange trading. Over the course of his six-year tenure, he grew FastMatch into a company valued at $160 million at the time of its acquisition by Euronext in 2017. FastMatch was named the best foreign exchange trading platform by Financial News and the best E-FX trading venue by FX Week.
As head of the Crossfinder dark pool at Credit Suisse, Dmitri grew Crossfinder into the largest dark pool in the U.S., double the size of the next largest competitor. He also served as Director of Strategy of Direct Edge and as the Global Head of Buy Side DMA for Lava Trading.
Dmitri served on the board of FICC Markets Standards as it worked to develop industry standards for FICC markets. In 2018, he was invited to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve Foreign Exchange Committee’s working group on Global Code of Conduct. He has served as a member of both the NYSE’s Electronic Trading Advisory Committee and the Securities Traders Association of New York.
Dmitri received an MBA in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and a B.B.A. in Finance from Baruch College. He also has an M.S. degree in Information Technology from New York University.
Joseph Green
Vice President Business Strategy Global Derivatives
Cboe Global Markets
Joe Green is Vice President of Business Strategy for the Global Derivatives group at Cboe Global Markets. His current focus is on prediction markets and other growth opportunities related to retail and alternative investments. Over the past 15 years, Joe has held roles within Cboe’s Legal, Labs, Indices, and Data Vantage teams. Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University, a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Ellen Greene
Head of Business Development and Market Structure Strategy
IMC Trading
Ellen Greene is Head of Business Development and Market Structure Strategy at IMC Trading, where she focuses on market structure, regulatory developments, and exchange affairs. She previously served as Managing Director of Equity and Options Market Structure at SIFMA, leading advocacy on key policy initiatives and industry engagement on the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Earlier in her career, she held senior roles at Nasdaq and the American Stock Exchange and began her career at Merrill Lynch.
Ellen chairs the Listed Options Market Structure Working Group (LOMSWG) and is active in SIFMA and FIA PTG. Ellen holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from Colby College.
Adrian Griffiths
Head of Market Structure
MEMX
Adrian Griffiths joined MEMX as Head of Market Structure in May 2021. In this leadership role, he serves as a dedicated resource to help develop MEMX’s viewpoints on market structure and industry-wide developments. Adrian amplifies the exchange’s voice on issues important to the MEMX membership by participating in engagement efforts with policy makers, regulators, and industry participants. Adrian also represents MEMX and its members by developing relevant thought leadership pieces and speaking at industry events.
Adrian has deep experience in the exchange space and was previously Assistant General Counsel at Cboe Global Markets, where he served as primary counsel to the U.S. equities and market data businesses. In this role, he provided strategic advice to business leaders and worked with the SEC to secure regulatory approval for major equities market structure proposals. He was a Senior Associate General Counsel at Nasdaq prior, advising on legal and policy issues impacting Nasdaq’s options and equities businesses.
Adrian received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Amherst College.
Jon Herrick
Chief Product Officer
New York Stock Exchange
Jon Herrick is the Chief Product Officer for the New York Stock Exchange, a part of Intercontinental Exchange(NYSE: ICE), responsible for product development and innovation across all areas of the exchange’s business. Inhis role, Jon oversees the NYSE’s transactions, ETF listings and market data businesses, driving competitivestrategy and distribution.
Previously, Jon served as the NYSE’s Head of Markets, leading the NYSE’s equities and options businesses acrossits seven exchanges and three trading floors. Earlier, Jon was the exchange’s Head of Equities.
For more than a decade, Jon held senior roles at several prominent proprietary trading firms including GETCO, which acquired Knight Capital to become KCG Holdings; Sun Trading, which was acquired by Hudson RiverTrading; and most recently Quantlab.
Sean Hoover
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Purestream Trading Technologies, Inc.
Sean Hoover is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of PureStream Trading Technologies, Inc., an innovative institutional trading venue focused on increasing institutional liquidity “bandwidth.” Sean began his career on the trading desk at RCM Capital Management in San Francisco where he was responsible for executing equities transactions for their institutional portfolios. In 1995 Sean joined Goldman Sachs in their San Francisco office as a sales-trader covering West Coast institutional clients. In 2001 Sean was named Managing Director and had responsibility for all Equities and Fixed Income businesses on the West Coast. In 2005 Sean relocated to New York to run Goldman’s International Execution teams. He was later promoted to Partner and named Global Co-Head of Equities Execution Services, a collection of business units comprised of more than 600 people spanning offices around the world. Sean’s 30 years of commercial and leadership success have earned him the trust and confidence of buy-side trading teams around the world. Sean Hoover graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He holds numerous regulatory securities licenses and serves on the board of “Part of the Solution” in Bronx, NY. He is happily married and currently resides in Rye, New York with his wife and three children.
David Jeria
Global Head of Equities Algo Strats and Engineering
Goldman Sachs
David is global head of the Equities Algo Strats and Engineering teams, responsible for the design and implementation of automated execution strategies for the firm and its clients. Previously, he ran the Americas Equity Execution Solutions team and was co-head of the Americas Electronic Trading Coverage desk. David is a member of the Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Shares Best Execution Subcommittee. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 as an analyst on the Equity Execution Strategies team and was named managing director in 2017. David earned a BS in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and a master's degree in Engineering in 2008, both from MIT.
Aaron Kaplan
Founder and Co-CEO
Prometheum
Aaron Kaplan is the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum, Inc., a leading market infrastructure provider for digital assets, including digitally-native securities, tokenized securities, and crypto. Through its subsidiaries, Prometheum Inc. supports the full lifecycle of digital assets including issuance, distribution, custody, clearance, settlement, and trading.
Before Prometheum, Aaron was an attorney at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC, where he focused on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry. Aaron has also worked at a California-based regional broker dealer where he held Series 7, 63, 55, 4, 24, 27, and 53 securities licenses. Aaron currently holds a Series 7 and Series 79 license. Aaron received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Stephen Kay
Global Head of Sell-Side Sales
Virtu Financial
Mr. Kay leads Virtu’s global broker dealer client relationship management and sales effort. Virtu uses advanced technology and transparency to deliver liquidity to the global capital markets and help clients pursue best execution in a scalable, efficient and data-driven manner.
Partnering with broker dealers of all sizes across the globe, Mr. Kay and team seek to customize Virtu’s award-winning products and services to fit their client’s wide-ranging needs. Stephen offers an extensive background in multi-asset class execution, global market structure, execution management systems, algorithmic trading technology, smart-routing, trade analytics and the other global trading solutions Virtu offers.
Mr. Kay joined Knight Capital (also known as KCG Holdings, Inc.) in 2005 before it was acquired by Virtu Financial in 2017. He has over 30 years of experience in the wholesale equity market making segment and prior experience includes roles at equity market-making and NYSE specialist firms, as well as five years as an active trader.
Mr. Kay holds an MBA from New York University and a BS from Washington University, St. Louis. He served as President of the Security Traders Association of New York in 2007 and 2011.
He is also an avid Phillies baseball team fan.
Aaron Kehoe
Head of QwickRoute
MCAP Platform Solutions
Aaron Kehoe leads QwickRoute, the Platform Solutions Division of MCAP, where he drives the development of custom algorithmic trading solutions for sell-side broker-dealers. Under his leadership, QwickRoute focuses on enhancing trading performance by optimizing workflows, improving execution quality, sourcing liquidity, and crafting best execution strategies by listening to client needs. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Kehoe has been a pioneer in developing technology and operations that support ETF trading systems. His deep understanding of how various asset classes trade has allowed him to continuously improve ETF trading and execution practices, consistently solving complex workflow issues and driving industry-wide innovation.
Mr. Kehoe’s career began on the trading floor of the AMEX as an ETF trader, where he quickly distinguished himself before becoming an ETF specialist on the NYSE. His extensive career includes senior roles at Bear Stearns, NewEdge, Virtu (formerly Knight), Cantor Fitzgerald, and Brownstone Investment Group.
Patricia Koetzner
Co-head of Equity Trading
Siebert Williams Shank & Co, LLC
Patricia E. Koetzner is Co-head of Equity Trading, for Siebert, Williams, Shank & Co. LLC, a leading minority owned broker dealer. Patricia’s two primary functions include; driving new revenue growth by expanding revenue generating relationships and facilitating equity trading for the firm. Her equity trading functions include: traditional long/short sales trading coverage, implementation of algorithmic strategies, share repurchases, trading and program trading. Ms. Koetzner has served in various capacities in the securities industry for now over 22 years, most recently including her role as Managing Director/Head of Equity Sales & Trading at CastleOak Securities, L.P. Prior to that, Ms. Koetzner served as vice president of Barclays Capital for seven years where she covered cash accounts and repurchased shares for corporations, before becoming a member of its electronic trading group. For the first decade of her career, she was a NASDAQ market maker for firms including Neuberger Berman, LLC, Gruntal & Co. and Dominick & Dominick, Inc. Patricia earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maine and holds FINRA series three, seven, 24, 55 and 63.
Abhishek Kundu
Global Head of Electronic Product
Clearpool Group
Abhishek (Abhi) is responsible for BMO’s global electronic product strategy and quant research. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, he served as Senior MD, Head of Quantitative Analysis at Clearpool Group where he managed quantitative analysis and collaborated on product development. Before Clearpool, he was VP at KCG Holdings (formerly Knight Capital Group), where he worked in algorithmic trading and quantitative analysis for Knight Direct, the firm’s agency algorithmic business.
Richard B. Levin
Chair of the FinTech Practice
Taft
Richard B. Levin is the chair of the FinTech Practice at Taft and is one of the first lawyers to focus on the regulation of blockchain and digital assets. He is considered a legal thought leader in FinTech. Rick has represented electronic trading platforms since 1999. He brings his experience as a senior legal and compliance officer on Wall Street and in London to advising clients on corporate, FinTech, securities, and regulatory issues. His current and past clients include leading national financial institutions, multinational financial services holding companies, leading firms in the FinTech space, and institutions engaging in global investment banking, investment management, securities, and other financial services with institutional clients. Richard has been identified by Chambers and Partners as one of the leading lawyers in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies category since the inception of the category in 2018. He is a trusted advisor in the FinTech, blockchain, and cryptocurrency space. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on FinTech and regulatory issues and is the co-author of several chapters of books on U.S. regulation of digital assets and blockchain technology.
Douglas Love
Director of Product and Customer Success
CoinRoutes, Inc.
Douglas Love is Director of Product and Customer Success at CoinRoutes, an algorithmic trading platform in digital assets. With nearly a decade of experience in execution trading, electronic trading client services, and technical account management at firms including Elwood Technologies, Cowen Inc., and Airain, he specializes in institutional trading infrastructure across crypto and capital markets. Douglas is a Loughborough University graduate and CISI-certified capital markets professional based in Miami.
Pat Luongo
Director, Options Sales
NYSE
Pat Luongo is a Director at NYSE in Options Sales. He has over 30 years of experience in listed equity options and trading markets.
Before joining NYSE, Mr. Luongo was a Senior Vice President at Jefferies LLC as Head of Electronic Options Sales and Director at Credit Suisse and Head of Options Sales in the US for Advanced Execution Services (AES). In both roles, he focused on delivering the Firm’s options algorithmic trading strategies to clients.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Luongo was Head of Electronic Options Sales at Bloomberg Tradebook and was responsible for implementation, sales and development for electronic options execution. Prior to Bloomberg, Mr. Luongo was an options specialist and market maker on the American Stock Exchange with TFM Investment Group which was acquired by Goldman Sachs (SLK-Hull Derivatives).
Mr. Luongo is a graduate from the University of Scranton, Scranton, PA with a degree in Business Management.
Mahlet Makonnen, Esq.
Principal
Williams & Jensen
Mahlet Makonnen is a principal at Williams & Jensen. She is an attorney with public and private sector experience in financial services, privacy, and cybersecurity issues. Ms. Makonnen advises clients in the financial services and technology sector on evolving policy and legal matters. Ms. Makonnen also leads the Campaign Finance Practice group at the Firm, where she represents corporations, trade associations, and individuals on complying with federal and state election laws, ethics and gift restrictions, and the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Prior to joining Williams & Jensen, Ms. Makonnen worked as Regulatory Affairs Counsel for the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU), where she advised financial institutions on a variety of regulatory and compliance issues. In the public sector, Ms. Makonnen served as an Attorney Advisor with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Manus McGuire
Director of Financial Services for the Americas
KX Systems
Over the last 10 years, Manus McGuire has discovered, built and managed KX’s most significant clients in capital markets. Now a manager of the financial services vertical, he continues to support many customers as they leverage KX technology to implement mission critical trading systems in the A.I. generation. A native of Ireland and now a proud New Yorker, Manus is an active board member of local charities that give back to his adopted city.
Joseph Mecane
Head of Execution Services
Citadel Securities
Joseph Mecane is Head of Execution Services at Citadel Securities. In this role, he is responsible for the firm’s client-facing equity, options, FX, and ETF businesses. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Mecane was Global Head of Electronic Equities at Barclays. Previously, he worked for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for six years, most recently serving as the Head of U.S. Equities. His earlier career included roles at UBS Securities, Schwab Capital Markets, Knight Capital Group and Price Waterhouse. Mr. Mecane is involved with numerous industry organizations, currently serving as Chairman of the Nasdaq Quality of Markets Committee and on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of American Finance. He is also a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals and the SIFMA Advisory Council. He was previously a member of the SEC’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee and served on the FINRA Board of Governors, the Nasdaq Exchange Board and the BATS Exchange Board. Mr. Mecane received an MBA, with honors, from the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Pace University.
Jeff Mendl
VP, Head of Broker Dealer Sales
OTC Markets Group / MOON ATS
Jeff Mendl is responsible for broker-dealer sales and new business development related to Trading Services, OTC Link ATS, OTC Link ECN as well as the launch of firms OTC Overnight and Moon ATS trading in NMS securities. Jeff has extensive experience in the equities markets and trading applications, leveraging his prior role at Delaware Board of Trade (DBOT) where he oversaw strategy and business development including new account sales & client on-boarding. Prior to DBOT, Jeff held numerous positions within the financial services industry, including key client management roles at the National Stock Exchange and Clearpool Execution Services. Elected in 2018, Jeff currently serves on the Executive Board for the Securities Trader Association of New York (STANY) and the STA National Board of Governors.
Jeff earned his B.S. in Economics from Syracuse University and holds the following Series 7, 24, 63 licenses.
Brian Mulcahy
CEO & Board Member
StoneX Digital at StoneX Group Inc.
Brian Mulcahy joined StoneX in January, 2021 in a business development capacity. He has 25+ years’ experience building new businesses at Banks and Broker Dealers, and founded a global Equities, Options and Futures brokerage firm in 2010. Here at StoneX, Brian serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the two StoneX Digital entities, in the United States and Ireland. StoneX Digital is the digital asset arm of StoneX Group Inc., serving as an innovation hub focused on this emerging technology and asset class. StoneX Digital is a leader in the industry, focusing on the integration of digital assets into traditional financial services model. The firm is now a Crypto Asset Service Provider, or CASP, under the European Securities Markets Association MiCA regulatory system, with a registered PSD2 payments license to support eMoney Tokens.
Andrew Murphy
General Counsel
Talos
Adam Nunes
Head of Risk
Hudson River Trading
Adam Nunes is head of risk at Hudson River Trading, a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm based in New York City. Founded in 2002, Hudson River Trading develops automated trading algorithms that provide liquidity and facilitate price discovery on exchanges and alternative trading systems globally. With offices around the world, Hudson River Trading trades equities, futures, options, currencies and fixed income on over 200 markets worldwide. Prior to leading the risk management function, Mr. Nunes oversaw Hudson River Trading’s compliance function and led its business development function.
Prior to joining Hudson River Trading in 2009, Mr. Nunes was Vice President of Transaction Services and Head of U.S. Options at Nasdaq where he oversaw the acquisition and integration of Nasdaq PHLX and was responsible for the Nasdaq Options Market. Prior to focusing on options, he was responsible for developing policy initiatives, new products, product enhancements and pricing for Nasdaq’s equity transaction business, including the implementation of Regulation NMS.
Mr. Nunes joined Nasdaq in 2000 as a Research Analyst in the Economic Research Department. Mr. Nunes began his career as a Research Associate at Economists Incorporated, an economic consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Mr. Nunes received his BBA in Finance from the George Washington University.
Amy Oldenburg
Head of Digital Asset Strategy
Morgan Stanley
Amy is the Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley, where she is focusing on building and connecting the Firm's digital asset capabilities, engaging with digital industry consortiums and collaborating closely with the various business units on this important strategic initiative to serve our clients. Most recently Amy was the Head of Emerging Markets Equity at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2001 and has over 25 years of finance experience including her pervious roles as Chief Operating Officer of Emerging Markets Equity and held roles in equity and FX trading, portfolio management support, and product development and strategy after starting her career in internet consulting. Amy received a BA in business administration with a concentration in finance from Fordham University and a MS in applied psychology from University of Southern California. She currently sits on Morgan Stanley's Firmwide Innovation Council. Outside the firm, Amy is an independent director of Abhi, a fintech company based in the UAE. She is an active contributor and speaker in the global digital asset community with specific interests in the use of digital assets in the emerging world, asset tokenization, and emerging business models.
Andrew Oppenheimer
Head of Business Development
Nasdaq
Andrew is Head of Business Development and Strategy for US Equities at Nasdaq. His responsibilities range from account coverage, product, policy and strategic initiatives. Prior to his current role, Andrew headed up product at Nasdaq for US Equities. Before joining Nasdaq in 2017, Andrew worked at KCG as product manager for the ATS and lead its migration to new infrastructure and updating its execution logic. As a client facing product manager, he spoke to clients regarding execution quality and performance while continually sourcing new business. He focused on keeping the ATS running smoothly (and compliant) growing trading volume and revenues through involvement in business strategy, product development, sales and overall advocacy for the ATS. Prior to joining KCG, Andrew worked at Cantor Fitzgerald to launch and manage the trading strategies of a 6 billion dollar quantitatively enhanced index fund.
David Pennella
GTS
With nearly two decades of experience in the securities industry, Mr. Pennella is a recognized expert in exchange traded funds (ETFs), specializing in business strategy, relationship management, and training. As the founding execution trader for GTS's ETF Issuer Services and Index Arbitrage PT services, he leads all aspects of ETF and Unit Investment Trust (UIT) issuer services, quantitative portfolio trading, and index tracking.
Throughout his career, Mr. Pennella has focused on educating clients about the intricacies of ETFs, guiding them through conversions and launches, and helping them maximize the efficiency of ETFs as an investment vehicle.
Eric Rose
Head of Digital Asset Execution
StoneX Digital
Eric Rose is Head of Digital Asset Execution for StoneX Digital, the digital asset service provider arm of StoneX Group (NASDAQ: SNEX). He is responsible for the commercial operations of StoneX Digital globally including spot trading, digital asset financing and derivatives trading. Prior to StoneX Digital, he was one of the co-founders of Cowen Digital, the digital asset service arm of TDCowen. Before entering the digital asset space full time in 2022, he spent 25 years trading equity derivatives at firms including Cowen, Jefferies, CIBC and Prudential Securities.
Kimberly Russell
State Street Investment Management
Kimberly Russell is Vice President and Head of Market Structure Strategy in the Global ETF Capital Markets Group at State Street Investment Management. She leads market structure analysis, ETF advocacy, and business development with exchanges. Previously, Ms. Russell was Director in the Equities Execution business at Barclays Capital Inc. She serves on the Security Traders Association's ETF Committee and Market Structure Analyst Committee, Nasdaq's Institutional Traders Advisory Council, Limit Up-Limit Down NMS Plan Advisory Committee, Investment Company Institute’s ETF Committee, and National Organization of Investment Professionals. Ms. Russell holds the Certified ETF Advisor (CETF) designation with the ETF Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, where she competed in NCAA Division I Women’s Rowing and graduated with honors.
Joe Schifano
Eventus
Joe brings 25 years of experience to Eventus, where he partners with client stakeholders, champions their needs and concerns, communicates regulatory trends, offers insights to maximize effectiveness, and helps compliance and supervisory staff build best-in-class surveillance and monitoring capabilities. Joe recently wrote a paper titled “The Evolution of AI in Financial Compliance and Trade Surveillance.” Joe is currently an advisor to the NYDFS on the Financial Innovation Advisory Board.
He most recently served as Deputy General Counsel and Global CCO at Tower Research Capital. He successfully led the global compliance team for this proprietary trading firm with 30 trading teams and activity in over 80 electronic markets globally with staff in New York, London, Gurgaon and Singapore. At Tower, he also served as CCO for Latour Trading LLC and TRC Markets LLC from 2016 to 2018, and as Counsel from 2014 to 2015. Earlier in his career, he was a Vice President on NYSE's legal team, and held front-office, supervision, and compliance roles at Barclays Capital and UBS Securities.
Joe received his J.D. from New York Law School and holds a B.S. in Applied Social Sciences and Business from Binghamton University.
Andrew Schultz
Head of Strategic Options Business
Susquehanna
Andrew Schultz has been employed by the Susquehanna International Group of Companies (“Susquehanna”) since 1997. From 1997-2001, Andrew was an equity options market maker on the American Stock Exchange. In 2002, Andrew moved to Susquehanna’s internal education department and was Head of Education from 2004-2007, where he taught all new hires Susquehanna’s core trading and decision-making philosophy. Since 2007, Andrew has been the Head of Strategic Options Business within Susquehanna’s option trading group. In this role, he works directly with Susquehanna’s trading and technology groups to coordinate efforts in the options space. Andrew has also been active in exchange and micro-structure issues and served as a member of the MIAX Options board and is currently serving on the NASDAQ Exchange Board.
Andrew graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Economics. He lives in Bryn Mawr, PA with his wife and three daughters.
Joseph Sellitto
Susquehanna International Group
Joseph Sellitto is the President and CEO of Global Execution Brokers an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG). In his current position, Mr. Sellitto is responsible for the execution of GEB’s business plan including business development, sales and marketing of SIG’s options order execution platform, including customer and exchange relationship management.
Prior to joining SIG, Mr. Sellitto spent three years as director of derivative products at E*TRADE Securities LLC, leading the development of E*TRADE’s retail options andfutures business. From 1982 to 2003, he was senior vice president at Morgan Stanley DW, Inc., where he managed options trading floor execution and risk. Mr. Sellitto has more than 48 years of securities industry experience including extensive experience working with the exchanges. He was a member of the CBOE from 1974 to 2003, and has held memberships at the CBOT, International Monetary Market division of the CME, PHLX and NYSE/ARCA exchanges. He has served on numerous industry committees, including CBOE’s Allocation, Screen Based Trading, Financial Planning, Equity Floor Procedure, Membership, and Marketing Committees, ISE’s Allocation Committee PHLX’s Equity Floor Procedure Committee, and, CHX’s Allocation Committee. He has also served as Chairman and member of the CBOE Nominating Committee, OCC Nominating Committee, CBOE Systems Committee, and CBOE Member Firm Advisory Committee. He served on ISE Board of Directors, as Chairman of the SIFMA Options Committee and the STA Derivatives Committee. He currently serves on the MIAX Board of Directors and STANY Board of Directors.
Jamie Selway
Director of the Division of Trading and Markets
US Securities Exchange Commission
Jamie Selway became the Director of the Division of Trading and Markets in June 2025.
Previously, Mr. Selway was a partner at Sophron Advisors, where he advised clients on capital markets issues. He also was a board member at Protego Holdings, board chair at AllofUs Financial and Skew, and served as an advisor to multiple financial technology companies. He was a managing director and head of electronic brokerage at Investment Technology Group, a global institutional broker. He co-founded institutional brokerage White Cap Trading, where he was a managing director and chairman. Earlier in his career, Mr. Selway was chief economist at Archipelago, worked in Equity Derivatives Research at Goldman Sachs, and was associate director of research at the National Association of Securities Dealers, which became the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Mr. Selway has served on a number of industry committees and previously testified at Congressional and SEC roundtables. He is a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP) and the Investment Traders Association of Philadelphia, and has served as chair of NOIP and the NOIP Foundation. He previously was associate editor of the Journal of Trading.
Mr. Selway received an M.S. in financial mathematics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in mathematics and European history from Washington & Lee University.
Tanmay Sheth
Managing Director of Futures and Prediction Markets
Webull Financial
A seasoned derivatives and clearing professional, Tanmay Sheth is currently the Managing Director of Futures and Prediction Markets at Webull Financial, where he led the end-to-end implementation of the firm’s Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) business. Sheth's leadership has been instrumental in building and scaling institutional-grade derivatives offerings within a fast-growing brokerage platform. Sheth previously held derivatives and clearing roles at Morgan Stanley and TradeStation, supporting listed derivatives clients and overseeing futures and equities clearing operations.
Kevin Skarbek
Managing Director, Order Routing, Relationship Management & Market Structure
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Kevin Skarbek is Managing Director, Order Routing, Relationship Management & Market Structure at Charles Schwab. He was most recently the Head equity trader at G1X/SIG. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry working on the trade desk. Mr. Skarbek is involved in the trading, sales and execution services with many of his retail clients across the Capital Market division. Mr. Skarbek has been a member of the Security Traders Association of Chicago (STAC) for 24 years, and was recently STAC President in 2020.
Sean Spector
Head of US Equities Analytics and Business Development
OneChronos Markets
Brian Steele
Managing Director, President, Clearing and Securities Services
DTCC
Brian Steele is Managing Director, President, Clearing & Securities Services at DTCC where he is responsible for leading the firm’s Equity Clearing and Settlement, Fixed Income Clearing, Wealth & Investment Solutions, Asset Services, Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) and Repository & Derivatives Services (RDS). He is a member of the DTCC Executive Committee, Management Risk Committee and the Investment Management Committee. In addition, he serves as Chair of the ITP Board of Managers, Chair of the Deriv Serv Board, is a board member of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) and participates as a member of the World Economic Forum Steering Committee.
Brian has nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, serving in a wide range of senior-level roles including Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as Managing Director of Americas Client Coverage Group and Global Head of Client & Market Solutions. Prior to that, he served as a senior leader in several key global markets and operations-related roles, including Global Head of Market Structure Solutions; Global Head of Equities Execution Services and Settlements; Global Head of Digital Transformation for the Operations Division, and Global Head of Market Solutions for Operations Division.
Brian previously served as a board member for Acadia, Traiana, Access Fintech and Droit. He earned his bachelor of science degree in Marketing and E-commerce from Ithaca College.
Sam Stevens
Head of Analytics
IEX Exchange
Sam Stevens is Head of Analytics at IEX Exchange, a role he has held since 2022. Sam manages a team responsible for identifying and analyzing trading trends on the exchange and marketwide, maintaining an internal business intelligence platform, and bringing a consultative, collaborative approach to client conversations.
Prior to joining IEX, Sam was Head of US Analytics Client Services at Virtu Financial, where he covered global buyside firms for a wide array of analytics products including pre-trade and post-trade TCA across global equities, FX, fixed income, and futures. Sam worked in the analytics division for over 4 years, starting when it was a part of ITG, and remaining with the group through the acquisition by Virtu Financial in 2019.
Sam graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Cornell University.
Eric Stockland
Managing Director and CoHead Global Electronic Trading
BMO
As Co-Head of BMO’s Electronic Trading business Eric is responsible for BMO’s Electronic Trading vision and strategic direction. He identifies and executes on growth opportunities and is responsible for the overall success of the division. Eric is also responsible for driving institutional quantitative and product strategy globally. He collaborates with clients to improve benchmark performance by applying a robust empirical approach for testing and measuring results using an iterative and methodical process. His knowledge of market structure and adept usage of advanced trading technologies allows him to tackle complex trading strategies as he strives to improve a clients’ trading performance. A thought-leader and industry veteran, Eric has over 20 years of experience in trading, capital markets technology, and exchange operations.
Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, he served as IEX’s Chief Strategy Officer, representing IEX in industry and regulatory policy discussions and providing leadership to multiple teams within IEX. Eric led product development, quantitative research and business development teams at various times during his 4-year tenure with the company. Prior to IEX he was an execution consultant at KCG, a trader at GETCO and he began his career at Archipelago (now NYSE Arca).
Jerry Swarbrick
Market Structure Analyst
Optiver
Jerry Swarbrick is a member of the market structure and corporate strategy teams at Optiver, where he focuses on initiatives at the intersection of trading, market structure evolution, and firm strategy.
He has more than a decade of experience at Optiver, contributing to the firm’s engagement with evolving market structure and strategic development efforts. Prior to joining Optiver, Mr. Swarbrick was a Director at the New York Stock Exchange, where he supported business development initiatives. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Charles Schwab, managing middle office and trade support functions and contributing to trade execution quality efforts.
Mr. Swarbrick began his career on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a runner and DPM clerk.
He holds a degree in International Studies from DePaul University.
Larry Tabb
Director of Market Structure Research
Bloomberg LLP
Larry Tabb is the Director of Market Structure Research at Bloomberg, LLP. Currently Larry is writing as well as managing a team developing research and insight on financial markets infrastructure, technology, regulation, trading practices and industry issues.
Prior to joining Bloomberg in June 2020, Larry was the Research Chairman of TABB Group, the financial markets’ strategic advisory and research firm where he managed research and consulting for TABB Group. Mr. Tabb published on many aspects of the capital markets industry and has analyzed both US and European market structure; central clearing, credit default swaps, fixed income, equity and foreign exchange trading; financial markets trading and processing systems; analytical trading tools; cloud computing, and financial markets infrastructure.
Before founding TABB Group, Larry was vice president and founder of TowerGroup’s Securities & Investments practice. Prior to joining TowerGroup, he managed business analysis for Lehman Brothers’ Trading Services Division and he began his career managing various operations for the North American Investment Bank of Citibank.
Larry has testified in front of the US Senate Banking Committee, was on the SEC Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC), the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and has keynoted, spoken and moderated countless industry events. In 2022, Mr. Tabb received the Security Traders’ Association Dictum Meum Pactum (My Word Is My Bond) award for “those individuals who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the betterment of the financial services industry and have exhibited acts of integrity at the highest level.”
Brad Thomas
Senior Manager
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Brad Thomas is a Senior Manager in Trading Operations at Charles Schwab & Co, Inc., with more than 25 years of combined experience in the retail brokerage and trading industries. His background spans the management of large broker dealer equity and options order flow, correspondent clearing, and proprietary trading. In his current role, Brad focuses on strategic planning with an emphasis on relationship management, order routing, best-execution, and market structure. He is an active industry participant and represents Schwab on several committees, including STA’s Retail Advisory Committee and Listed Options Committee.
He holds a dual major in Finance and Banking from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and maintains Series 4, 7, 24, 55, and 63 licenses. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Brad is proud to call the city home, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Edward Woodford
Founder and CEO
zerohash
Edward Woodford is the Founder and CEO of zerohash, the leading crypto infrastructure platform trusted by industry leaders like Stripe, Franklin Templeton, Shift4, and Interactive Brokers. Zerohash has secured over $170M in funding, settled over $45 billion in transaction volume and onboarded 5m+ people to the crypto and stablecoin economy.
Under Edward’s leadership, zerohash has been recognized for its industry leading innovation. In 2024 recognised as the 4th fastest growing company in N.America by Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ and as a winner by Fintech Breakthrough for Cryptocurrency Innovation. In 2023, Zero Hash was named the 46th fastest-growing company by Inc 5000 and 21st in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, while also earning recognition as a finalist for World Changing Ideas by Fast Company. Edward himself has been honored as a 2025, Titan 100 (Chicago’s Top 100 CEOs and C-level executives) and by Goldman Sachs as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2023, one of the 101 Top CEOs in Fintech by Best Startup US, and his commitment to diversity was acknowledged when he received the 'Best CEO for Diversity' award from Comparably.
Prior to zerohash, Edward successfully launched and sold a CFTC-registered derivatives execution venue to TastyTrade. He holds a First Class B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Warwick as well as a Master of Finance from MIT.
