Americas Trading Conference 2026

Speakers

Alex Jadin

Office of Analytics and Research, Division of Trading and Markets , SEC’s

Alex Jadin leads the Office of Analytics and Research in the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets, a team of data scientists and market experts who provide quantitative analysis and policy guidance on questions of market structure and technology. Previously, he was an attorney in TM’s Office of Market Supervision focusing on market structure policy and the oversight of national securities exchanges and associations, alternative trading systems, and national market system plans. Before joining the SEC, he practiced securities and derivatives regulation at a law firm in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, an M.A. from the New School for Social Research, and a B.A. from Haverford College.

Andrew Clark

Head of Business Development, Iress

Andrew Clark is Head of Business Development for Iress in Canada, part of the firm's global trading and market data business. A capital markets executive with more than two decades across electronic trading, market structure and fintech, he has led the modernisation of order management systems and helped bring new electronic trading capability to the Canadian market. His current focus is trading connectivity and the industry's shift from execution on a venue to execution through a network. Andrew is a Governor of the Canadian Securities Traders Association (CSTA), a mentor in the Institutional Equity Traders Association mentorship program, and a graduate of Bishop's University.

Ashley Kryshtalsky

Head of North America Sales & Business Development, Workflow Technology, Virtu Financial

Ashley Kryshtalsky is the Head of North America Sales & Business Development for Virtu Financial’s Workflow Technology business, where she leads commercial strategy and client engagement for Virtu’s suite of workflow technology tools, including the Triton EMS platform. With deep expertise in electronic trading technology, she works with leading asset managers, hedge funds and financial institutions to design and implement multi-asset trading workflows, with a particular focus on workflow automation, execution technology and the evolving role of data and analytics in the trading process.

Prior to her current role. Ashley served as Global Head of Product for Workflow Technology, where she led product strategy and development for Triton EMS, overseeing initiatives from concept through delivery. She joined ITG in November 2018 as a Director of Workflow Technology prior to the firm’s acquisition by Virtu in March 2019, and previously held client coverage, sales and product roles at Instinet.

Ashley has more than 15 years of experience in electronic trading and financial technology. She is a founding member of the Women in FIX group within the FIX Trading Community and has been a frequent speaker on trading technology, automation and the evolution of electronic markets. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science in biology and a degree in Sociology from the University at Albany, SUNY. "

Brian Hyndman

President and CEO, Blue Ocean Technologies, LLC

Brian Hyndman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Ocean Technologies, LLC. Previously, Brian was the Senior Vice President of Global Information Services for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. In this role, he was responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading in NASDAQ OMX’s trading systems worldwide. Mr. Hyndman oversees various internal teams, including Sales, Product Management, Content Administration & Policy, and New Business Development. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Transaction Services and was responsible for managing operations of U.S. equities trading platforms including The NASDAQ Stock Market, NASDAQ OMX BX and NASDAQ OMX PSX. Prior to joining NASDAQ in 2004, Mr. Hyndman was the President of BRUT, an electronic communications network (ECN) that competed with the various equity markets in the U.S. He presided over the BRUT’s merger with Strike Technologies in 2000, the sale of BRUT to Sungard Data Systems in 2002 and the eventual sale of BRUT to The NASDAQ Stock Market in 2004. Prior to joining BRUT, Mr. Hyndman served as Vice President of Execution Services for the National Discount Brokers Group, managing 120 employees. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Oswego. Mr. Hyndman has held a variety of FINRA licenses and from the National Association of Securities Dealers, including the 4, 7, 24, 27, 53 and 63.

Cromwell Coulson

President, CEO and a Director, OTC Markets Group

R. Cromwell Coulson is President, CEO and a Director of OTC Markets Group, responsible for the company’s overall growth and strategic direction. Since leading the acquisition of OTC Markets’ predecessor business in 1997, Cromwell has transformed the company from a privately-held publisher of broker-dealer quotations into a publicly-traded company operating regulated markets for over 12,000 securities that traded $702 billion in dollar volume in 2025. Cromwell is a strong advocate of improving capital formation, supporting a diverse ecosystem of broker-dealers, and empowering investors with increased disclosure and transparency. He has testified before Congress and spoken on these and other issues at numerous industry conferences. Cromwell is a former Chair (2017-2018) of the FINRA Market Regulation Committee that advises FINRA on rulemaking and trading issues. Prior to OTC Markets, Cromwell was an institutional trader and portfolio manager at Carr Securities Corporation. He holds an OPM from Harvard Business School and received his BBA from Southern Methodist University.

Enrico Cacciatore

Co-Founder & Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Calcguard Technologies

Enrico Cacciatore is Co-Founder and Chief Product and Strategy Officer at CalcGuard Technologies, a financial technology firm building secure data infrastructure and advanced analytics for the institutional investment community. At CalcGuard, he leads product strategy focused on connecting fragmented trading data, improving transparency across the execution lifecycle and enabling investment managers to make more informed trading and routing decisions..

Enrico brings more than 16 years of institutional buy-side experience, including over a decade at Voya Investment Management as Senior Quantitative Trader and Head of Market Structure and Trading Analytics. His expertise spans algorithmic trading, execution quality, market data, ATS transparency and the infrastructure required to support increasingly global and extended-hours markets..

He serves on Nasdaq’s Quality of Markets Committee and co-chairs the FIX Trading Community’s 24-Hour Trading Working Group. Enrico is also an Editor-at-Large at TabbFORUM and a frequent contributor to industry discussions on market structure and trading innovation. A former U.S. Army officer, he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduate program in Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon University.

Frank Troise

President, Global Capital Markets, Broadridge

Frank is accountable for the overall business management, strategy, and financial performance of our front-to-back Capital Markets solutions. Prior to Broadridge, Frank was Co-CEO and a Board Member at Pico Quantitative Trading. He also served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Board Member of Investment Technology Group (NYSE: ITG). Previously, Frank held markets leadership positions as Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, and J.P. Morgan. Frank has held series 3, 4, 7, 24, 55, and 63 securities licenses. Frank earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at Boston University, a Master of Science in operations research at Columbia University, and an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Gabrielle Vennitti

Head of ETF Listings, Nasdaq

Gabrielle Vennitti is the Head of ETF Listings at Nasdaq, where she oversees the exchange’s Exchange Traded Product (ETP) business line, business development, and issuer relationships. Based in New York, she plays a central role in the ETF ecosystem, helping asset managers navigate the listing process and supporting the launch of innovative product structures.

Since joining Nasdaq in 2023, Gabrielle has held positions as Senior Manager of ETF Product and Senior Specialist for North American Markets. She authors the Nasdaq ETF Intel newsletter and hosts Nasdaq’s “Just for Funds” interview series.

Prior to her tenure at Nasdaq, Gabrielle worked in the digital asset data and index space as a Senior Specialist at Lukka. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School.

Jan Hoenisch

Strategic Consultant, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Jan Hoenisch is a Fractional CTO and Product Leader with over 35 years of experience in the FinTech industry, specializing in capital markets technology, investment operations, and AI-driven product innovation. He has a proven track record of delivering solutions that create measurable revenue growth and customer satisfaction across investment operations, collateral management, securities lending, reconciliation, corporate actions, and digital and alternative assets. Jan brings hands-on AI implementation experience directly relevant to financial services. He has led efforts to enable an Order Management System to predict settlement failures using AI, and has worked at two Crypto FinTech startups where AI was integrated into the development lifecycle -- driving efficiency gains ranging from 40% on complex coding requests to over 400% on routine bug fixes and simple tasks. He currently applies AI tools to data analysis and operational consolidation, with active work at the intersection of BPA, RPA, and emerging agentic automation models.

An experienced speaker and panelist, Jan's most recent engagement was at InvestOps. He is pursuing an Executive Presence and Influence Certificate from The Wharton School, and leverages his expertise in critical thinking, data analysis, strategic partnerships, and cross-functional collaboration to translate complex technology into business outcomes for executive audiences.

John Willock

Chief Revenue Officer, Blue Ocean Technologies

John Willock has spent his career innovating in capital markets trading and technology including leading teams for over a decade at Nasdaq and TMX focused on data & analytics. He subsequently founded his own firm focused on blending modern approaches to enabling efficient markets and engaged with global regulators to understand how and where regulations could evolve to bring new asset classes such as digital assets under regulatory certainty and improve legacy processes for traditional asset classes. As part of his regulatory relationships, he was a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Fintech Advisory Committee. John’s firm, Tritum, created retail and institutional liquidity, trading, and data solutions for digital assets. Tritum’s products processed hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange trading volumes and leading quality financial product access for hundreds of thousands of developing markets. John joined Blue Ocean to focus on growing the company’s initial overnight market strategy eventually into a leader in a global, 24 hour access to trading US equities.

Ignatius John,

Vice President, Broadridge

Ignatius John, considered by many to be an IT visionary, is recognized as a pioneer in the use of the FIX Protocol for post-trade. As Global Trading Strategist at asset manager AXA Rosenberg, Ignatius implemented a complete post-trade solution in 2008 using the FIX Protocol. This accomplishment was highlighted in a leading industry journal on Trading, and was a precursor to the industry’s adoption of FIX for post-trade. In various roles at AXA Rosenberg over two decades, Ignatius managed business strategy, product and technology development. He also worked for State Street Capital Markets on real-time trading technology. Ignatius has a proven track record of implementing functional improvements to the investment process, from pre- to post-trade in the US, Asia, and Europe, to increase workflow efficiency, mitigate risk and enhance portfolio returns.

Julia Zhou

President, Caladan

Julia Zhou is the President at Caladan, the largest digital asset market maker in Asia. She joined in 2018 and has helped scale the firm to $170B in annual volume across 65+ exchanges and 100+ tokens. Under her leadership, Caladan launched the Caladan API, an institutional liquidity and trading API for funds, OTC desks, and HFT firms. She previously served as Chief Commercial Officer, and before Caladan was VP Sales for Asia Pacific at Nanigans. She holds a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kimberly Russell

VP, ETF Capital Markets & Head of Market Structure Strategy, 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.

Larry Tabb

Director: Market Structure Research, Bloomberg , LLP

Larry Tabb is the Director of Market Structure Research at Bloomberg, LLP. Currently Larry is building out his research team to develop 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. In 2018, Larry was selected to sit on the SEC Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) as well as the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee, in addition Larry was asked to participate in the SEC Market Data Roundtable, held in October 2018 at the SEC’s Washington DC headquarters. In March 2012, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission selected Larry to assist their CFTC Technical Advisory Committee as a member of its Subcommittee of Automated and High Frequency Trading (HFT). In September 2012 he was invited by the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to testify at the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment session on “Computerized Trading: What Should the Rules of the Road be?”, chaired by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI). Larry is quoted extensively and in virtually all industry and general news publications, he has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, Associated Press, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Dow Jones News, Barron’s, Forbes, Financial News, Business Insider, Waters as well as many other media. He continues to be a featured speaker at major industry and business conferences throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Canada. 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.

Lisa Utasi

Managing Director, Global Execution, ClearBridge Investments

Lisa Utasi is Managing Director of Global Execution and a Senior Equity Trader at ClearBridge Investments. She is a past Chairman of the Security Traders Association (National) and a two-term past President of the Security Traders Association of New York. Lisa was inducted into the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP) in 2004. She later served as Chairman of its Board of Directors and co-chaired the Conference Committee for many years. She currently serves on the NOIP Foundation Board of Directors.

Lisa serves on the NASDAQ’s Institutional Traders Advisory where she previously served as the group’s Committee Chair. Ms. Utasi participates as a member of the NYSE Institutional Traders Advisory Committee. Lisa is a member of Institutional Investors Trader’s Forum and the Investment Company Institute’s Equity Markets Committee.

Lisa recently received the Award for Industry Excellence and Dedication to STANY and has been widely recognized for her service to the New York City charitable community. She grew up in Texas and received her BA in Political Science and BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

Rachel Andreassian

Head of Product and Market Structure, Provable Markets

Rachel is Head of Product and Market Structure at Provable Markets, where she shapes the firm's product vision — incorporating industry trends, client insights, and regulatory change — and drives development of Provable's platform, Aurora. Since joining in 2022, she has led the launch of the firm's Securities Finance Trade and Post-Trade solutions and continues to manage their expansion. Before Provable Markets, Rachel was at Liquidnet, focused on Execution Consulting and the firm's strategy for automating and visualizing client interactions with Liquidnet ATS. She spent the prior years at Barclays in Electronic Trading, managing the OMS, Smart Order Router, Venue Connectivity, and Execution Algorithms. Rachel is co-chair of the FIX Trading Community's Securities Lending Working Group and holds a B.S. in Supply Chain Management from Rutgers University.

Raisa Ojeda

Chicago-based Trader, Peak6

Raisa Ojeda is a Chicago-based Trader at Peak6, where she specializes in overnight U.S. equities trading. Prior to Peak6, she was an Institutional Trader at Penserra, focusing on international equities and program trading.

Thomas Sullivan

Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Solutions (DAS), DTCC

Thomas (Tom) Sullivan is Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Solutions (DAS) at DTCC. In this role, which he assumed in March 2026, Tom has overarching responsibility for translating strategic priorities into solution design, detailed requirements and release plans. In addition, Tom aligns delivery with business objectives, develops platform and product strategy, collects and incorporates client and stakeholder feedback into design solutions and partners with other teams across DTCC on tokenization-related projects. Tom also leads a team of product managers and product owners who oversee client and market engagement, product development and commercial outcomes.

He joined DTCC in September 2025 as Managing Director of DTCC Digital Assets, where he was responsible for leading and facilitating the development of DTCC Digital Assets’ strategic objectives, driving critical projects and partnering with clients, regulators and market participants to advance the firm’s leadership in digital innovation.

Tom has over 20 years of experience in securities and banking, focusing on the intersection of operations and innovation. Prior to DTCC, Tom served as Managing Director at Société Générale in New York, where he was the Head of Business Development for Digital Assets and spearheaded tokenization and blockchain efforts for the firm in the Americas. Before that, Tom served in various operational roles at Société Générale, including securities settlements, collateral management, f/x and payments. Prior to Société Générale, Tom was the Head of Broker Dealer Operations at Commerzbank where he managed securities settlements, securities lending support, and asset servicing. With the merger of Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank in 2009, Tom coordinated the integration of the operational platforms of the firms. In addition to these roles, Tom has been an active member in several industry groups, including the Digital Asset Markets subcommittee of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee where he worked to develop tokenization recommendations.

Tom graduated from New York University with BA in Economics and holds Series 7, 24,27, 63, and 99 registrations with FINRA.

Emiko Kamoda

Managing Director, global head of Prime Digital Strategy, Goldman Sachs

Emiko is global head of Prime Digital Strategy, responsible for delivering solutions to Prime Services clients. In her previous role, she served as chief operations officer of GS Electronic Trading (GSET) globally, where she managed strategic equities initiatives, business metrics and client onboarding. Prior to that, Emiko led the development of Americas algorithmic trading products and has also worked as a sales trader in GSET. Emiko joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as an associate in the Equities Division and was named managing director in 2015. Prior to joining the firm, she was a senior manager at Arthur Andersen LLP in the Financial Industry Group. Emiko serves as co-chair of the Americas Steering Committee at FIX Trading Community™, a nonprofit that addresses global trading and regulatory issues through standardization and Financial Information eXchange (FIX®) Protocol. Emiko earned an MBA, magna cum laude, in Finance from Columbia Business School in 1999. She is a CFA charterholder and a certified public accountant.

George Rosenberger

General Manager – NYFIX Broadridge Trading & Connectivity Solutions, Broadridge

George is responsible for the overall NYFIX business, which includes the Order Routing Network, Partnerships, and the Post-Trade Matching service. George joined Broadridge through the Itiviti acquisition in 2020 and has been with the Firm since 2015. During his tenure, George has held various roles including Head of Strategy for the Client Connectivity Services business segment. Prior to joining Itiviti, George worked at ConvergEx, an Agency Broker Dealer, where he was responsible for the Trading Services business, which included all Exchange relationships, Broker relationships, EMS/OMS/Network vendor relationships, Global Connectivity, Global Trade Support. Prior to ConvergEx, George worked as an Engagement Manager at Morgan Stanley in their Strategic Services division.

Jim Kaye

Executive Director, FIX Trading Community

Jim has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, mostly in equities electronic trading, market structure and regulatory implementation. He has been involved in FIX in various capacities over most of this period, having served as GSC co-chair for eight years, a director for five and as co-chair of various working groups.

Scott Govoni

Americas Regional Director, FIX Trading Community

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