Speakers

Jorge Alegria

Chief Executive Officer, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores

He has held various positions of high responsibility in the financial and markets sector, including Senior Director of CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), representative in Mexico and in charge of the development of markets, clients and derivative products for Latin America.

Previously he served as Managing Director of MexDer (Mexican Derivatives Market) and as Deputy Managing Director of the Mexican Stock Exchange, in charge of Market Operations and Data Services of the BMV Group. Prior to that, he was CEO of ABN AMRO Securities (Mexico) and Deputy Managing Director of Scotia-bank Inverlat México.

He chaired the International Options Markets Association (IOMA) abroad for three years. Mr. Alegría graduated as a Public Accountant specialized in Finance from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), where he has also been a part-time professor teaching the topic of Derivatives Markets in Mexico. He has taken and taught various advanced courses and seminars in Mexico and abroad, specialized in capital markets, FINTECH and financial derivatives.

Khalid Abdullah Alhussan

Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Tadawul Group

Eng. Khalid Abdullah Alhussan is a Board member and the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Tadawul Group. He also serves as the Chairman of the Saudi Exchange, the Securities Depository Center Company (Edaa), the Securities Clearing Center Company (Muqassa), Wamid, an applied technology services business and the in-novation arm of Saudi Tadawul Group.  Additionally, Al Hussan is a board member in the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and Tadawul Real Estate Company, and E-Finance for Digital and Financial Investments (S.A.E).

Alhussan has more than 16 years of capital market and financial sector experience and possesses a wide range of expertise from business development and corpo-rate planning to strategy and operations. Preceding his appointment as CEO of the Group, Eng. Khalid was the CEO of The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) - now known as the Saudi Exchange - for more than 5 years. 

Throughout his tenure at the Exchange, Khalid has overseen the introduction and implementation of several key development programs, including the Qualified For-eign Investor (QFI) framework, the inclusion of Tadawul in the emerging markets’ indices, the launch of Nomu and the derivative markets, the development of the fixed income market and the record-setting IPO of Saudi Aramco. Notably and most recently, led the transformation into the Saudi Tadawul Group. 

Prior to joining the Exchange, Eng. Khalid worked in the insurance sector, managing areas of business product development and strategy.

Khalid is an engineer and holds an MBA from the University of Colorado, where he is also a certified entrepreneur.

Memberships in Board Committees: Member of the Investment Committee, Mem-ber of the Governance, Risk and Compliance Committee.

Dr. Adu Anane Antwi

Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission of Ghana

Dr. Adu Anane Antwi is a chartered accountant and a lawyer, and currently the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ghana (SEC Ghana). He served as the Director-General of SEC Ghana from July 2011 until his retirement in December 2016 and has since his retirement being in private practice with his private legal and financial consultancy firm, Finlaw. Prior to serving as the Director-General of SEC Ghana he was in private practice with Finlaw and a partner in A & A Associates, a firm of chartered accountants. Prior to entering private practice, he worked as the Director of Corporate Finance & Investment Management at SEC Ghana from July 1999 to December 2003.  Dr. Antwi has also previously worked as the Director of Investment & Fund Management at the National Health Insurance Authority and as Chief Accountant and Ag. Director of Finance at the Ghana National Procurement Agency.

Dr. Antwi has delivered capital market/investor education training programmes in Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Peru, Sierra Leone, Spain, South Africa, and South Korea. He has served on a number of financial market committees including the West African Securities Regulators Association, Financial Sector Regulators Forum, West African Capital Markets Integration Council, Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Sub-Saharan Africa, National Bond Market Committee, Long Term Savings Committee, Technical Committee on Listing of SOEs, Financial & Economic Sector Team of the National Economic Dialogue, Cost & Financing Team of Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy, Financial Sector Consultative Committee, and ECOWAS Integration Committee (Ghana-Nigeria Bilateral Co-operation).

Dr. Antwi currently serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School and the University of Ghana School of Law where he teaches financial markets regulation. He has previously served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, the Central University, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, and the National Banking College. He has also served as an Instructor for the Ghana Stock Exchange’s securities courses and as a Resource Person for the West African Institute for Economic and Financial Management, Nigeria. 

Dr. Adu Anane Antwi holds a BSc. Administration degree (1989) and an MBA degree (1992) from the University of Ghana and also a Doctor of Business Administration degree (2014) from the Paris School of Business, France. He studied to qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996 with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana and as a lawyer in 2007 with the Ghana School of Law.

Prof. Dr. Erişah Arıcan

Chair, Borsa İstanbul

Prof. Erişah Arıcan started her academic career as research assistant at Marmara University Economics-Finance Department in 1988. She transferred to Marmara University Banking and Insurance Department in 1990 and with her thesis entitled “The Central Bank and the Auditing of Monetary Volumes”, earned her Ph.D. degree in 1991. She received an associate professor degree on Economic Policy in 1999, and professor degree at Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School in 2015. Arıcan worked as Assistant Director and Board member of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School between 1998 and 2006, and as Director, between 2006 and 2015. She was appointed as the Director of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Institute in August 2015, and is currently in office. In addition to her role as Marmara University Banking and Insurance Graduate School Banking Department Chairman and Board member she has been carrying out since 2002, Prof. Arıcan assumed the title of Marmara University Banking and Insurance Institute Banking Department Chairman and Board member in September 2015. Prof. Arıcan has numerous studies and books on Turkish economy, economic systems, money-banking, central bank practices, financial markets and organizations. Prof. Dr. Erişah Arıcan was elected as Borsa İstanbul Board Member on April 1, 2016, as Board member of Turkiye Wealth Fund on September 12, 2018. Ms. Arıcan was elected as Chair of the Board at Ordinary General Assembly Meeting on September 27, 2018. She is married with two children.

Julie Becker

Chief Executive Officer, Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Julie Becker has been at the helm of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) since April, 2021. She joined LuxSE in 2013 and was appointed to its Executive Commit-tee in 2015, before being named Deputy CEO in 2019, and CEO less than two years later.

Her career in the financial sector in Luxembourg spans over two decades and in-cludes positions at the Central Bank of Luxembourg and Dexia. In 2016, Julie Beck-er founded the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX), the world’s leading platform for sustainable securities. A recognised expert in the field of sustainable finance, Julie Becker has represented LuxSE and LGX at numerous, international expert forums and conferences over the past years, including at the prestigious EU High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance from 2016-2018. She is also the Chair of LuxCMA, a capital markets industry association established in 2019.

Julie Becker specialises in regulatory and legal matters linked to capital markets. She holds a Master’s Degree in European & Corporate Law and a Master’s Degree (DEA) in Private Law from the University of Nancy II, France. She is also an alumna of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

William J. Brodsky

Chairman, Cedar Street Asset Management

William J. Brodsky has been in the investment business since 1968 and joined Cedar Street Asset Management LLC in 2016 to serve as on its Advisory Board.

From 1997 to 2017, Bill served as Chairman of CBOE Holdings, Inc. and its predecessor firms. Bill also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the CBOE from 1997 to 2013 overseeing its demutualization leading to an IPO in 2010 and the creation of futures and options on VIX (the CBOE Volatility Index). 

Bill has served on the board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and its affiliates for 22 years including 14 years as chairman of its investment committee and Chairman of the Hospital board from 2012 to 2016. He is currently the Chairman of Navy Pier, Inc. and an advisor at Madison Dearborn Partners and serves on the Board of Directors of WEC Energies, an S&P 500 company.

Ashishkumar Chauhan

Managing Director & CEO, National Stock Exchange of India

Shri Ashishkumar Chauhan is the MD & CEO of the National Stock Exchange of In-dia (NSE). A technocrat from IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta, he was part of the found-ing team at NSE. He is credited with setting up first screen-based trading in India, mobile trading, mutual fund distribution through exchanges, markets for SME shares, satellite telecom, the NIFTY index, derivatives trading and many other modern developments in the Indian stock markets. He is considered as the father of modern financial derivatives in India.

Ashish has been fulfilling NSE’s mandate of being a frontline regulator that ex-tends well beyond any comparable exchange in the world. NSE, today, is the larg-est exchange in the world in terms of the number of orders and trades per day. He has been instrumental in the success of NSE IFSC and in bringing SGX NIFTY to GIFT IFSC which is a pivotal moment in Indian Financial Markets in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s vision for Amrit Kaal. He has also played a significant role in the establishment of the Social Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining NSE back in 2022, he was the MD and CEO of the Bombay Stock Ex-change for 10 years. He is a member of the University Grants Commission and the Chancellor of the University of Allahabad. He is on the board of IIM Calcutta, ONDC and other institutions of repute. He is a faculty at Nottingham University, UK and Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. He has also worked in the Reliance group and as the CEO of Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team in its formative years.

A Book titled ‘Sthithpragya: The Process of Maintaining an Equilibrium’ addresses his life’s journey. He has been awarded many awards in India and abroad including the Most Influential CEO Award by CEO Monthly in 2024, lifetime achievement award from Global Custodian at Singapore in 2023, Lifetime Achievement award in the field of Information Technology by CTO Magazine, Istanbul, Top 50 CIOs in the world by Information Week, US, Digital Icon of the Year, Asian Banker of the Year and many more.

Carmine Di Noia

Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Carmine Di Noia has been the Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD since 2022. 

Previously, he was Commissioner of the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission (CONSOB), beginning in 2016. He was also alternate member of the Board of IOSCO and the Board of Supervisor at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Chair of the Committee of Economic and Markets Analysis (CEMA) and of the Post-Trading Standing Committee at ESMA, and Vice Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee at OECD.

He had been Deputy Director General at Assonime, member of the Board of the Italian Stock Exchange, Chairman of the Policy Committee of EuropeanIssuers and Head of the technical secretariat of the Italian Corporate Governance Committee.

He was a member of various working groups at the European Commission: European Securities Market Expert Group (ESME), Clearing and Settlement Advisory Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME), Forum Group on Auditors Liability, Securities Expert Group on FSAP.

He is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Banking at the Business School of Luiss University in Rome.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Economic Theory and Institutions at Tor Vergata University.

Korkmaz Ergun

Chief Executive Officer, Borsa Istanbul

Korkmaz Ergun earned his undergraduate degree at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science, Department of Business Administration and started his career at Borsa İstanbul the same year. He completed his masters’ degree and PhD at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics. Having 25 years of Stock Exchange and Capital Markets experience, Ergun has administered the evaluation of the initial public offerings of numerous companies, and the examination and market activities of the companies listed on Borsa İstanbul. Moreover, Ergun is the Deputy Chairman of Takasbank Board of Directors. He is also a Board Member of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

Edward Knight

Executive Vice Chairman, Nasdaq

As Executive Vice Chairman, Edward Knight manages global government relations and serves as a senior advisor on public policy and litigation.

During his tenure as Nasdaq’s General Counsel from 2001 to 2019, Knight championed many causes for investors and public companies: proxy reform; corporate governance modernization, including the JOBS ACT passage in 2012; regulatory re-form; immigration reform; and enhancing the self-regulatory organization model. He has worked tirelessly to ensure Nasdaq’s U.S. equity market maintains its posi-tion as the premier global marketplace for capital formation.

Knight currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a member of the District of Columbia, Texas and Supreme Court Bars. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on its Committee on Corporate Affairs. Knight is Vice Chair-man of the Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Chair of the U.S.-India Business Council. He is also chair of TechNet's Executive Council. He is a member of the Nasdaq Dubai Board and the Board of the World Federation of Exchanges. He is based in Nasdaq’s Washington, D.C., office.

Before serving as FINRA’s General Counsel from 1999-2001 and then NASDAQ’s General Counsel, Knight served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from September 1994 to June 1999 — the longest tenure since the position was created in 1934. Upon his departure, he received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Department's highest honor. He also received the Honor Award from the Secret Service. Before being named Treasury General Counsel, Knight served as Executive Secretary and Senior Advisor to Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen. He also served as a member of the Obama Transition Team at the U.S. Treasury Department in 2008-2009.

Prior, he was a partner with the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld in Washington, D.C. A Texas native, Knight received his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law.

Boon Chye Loh

Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Exchange Group, & Chairman, The World Federation of Exchanges

Over the years, Mr Loh has played a key role in the development of Southeast Asia’s capital markets, having held a number of senior advisory positions. Apart from his directorship on the SGX Board from 2003 to 2012, he has been on the Boards of GIC Pte Ltd since November 2012, Economic Development Board Singapore since February 2017 and the World Federation of Exchanges since September 2017. He is also Chairman of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Council for Board Diversity.

With a career in the financial industry that spans three decades, Mr Loh was most recently Deputy President and Head of Asia Pacific Global Markets at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from December 2012 to May 2015. He was also the bank’s Country Executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia and a member of its Asia Pacific Executive Committee. From 1995 to 2012, Mr Loh was with Deutsche Bank AG, where he held various leadership roles including Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and Head of Global Markets for Asia.

Mr Loh is a council member and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore and a council member at the Singapore Business Federation. He was also previously Chairman of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee, as well as Deputy President of ACI Singapore.

Mr Loh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.

John McKenzie

Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group, & Vice-Chairman, The World Federation of Exchanges

Mr. McKenzie is a member of the TMX Group Board of Directors and also a member of the Board of Directors of several TMX Group subsidiaries.

Mr. McKenzie has worked for TMX for over 20 years; prior to his appointment as CEO on August 17, 2020, he served as Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for corporate strategy, corporate development, investor relations and the financial management of the company as well as for the administrative oversight of TMX Group’s Capital Formation business. He has led various TMX acquisitions, including the Maple transaction, and the acquisitions of Montréal Exchange and Trayport.

From July 2015 to August 2016, Mr. McKenzie served as President of CDS, Canada’s equity and fixed income clearing house and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group. Prior to that he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and CFO of CDS.

Mr. McKenzie is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA) and has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University and an Honours BA from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has served on a number of boards, and is currently the Vice-Chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges, and a Board Member and Treasurer for the Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation.

David Ngai

Alternate Chief Executive, Hong Kong, State Street Bank and Trust Company

David Ngai - David is currently the Managing Director of State Street Bank and Trust Company, responsible for the managing of the Compliance practice for Global Market’s businesses in Apac. David is also serving as the Alternate Chief Executive for our Hong Kong Branch. On top of governance, David is also responsible for the managing of the relationships with the Regulators and Central Banks in the region from Market Infrastructure, and Supervisory perspective.

Previously Managing director, Asia Pacific for Global Financial Markets Association’s Global FX Division, David had been working with a group of 25 major international banks engaged in the discussions with the Regulators and Central Banks in multiple jurisdictions around clearing, execution, trade reporting, Code of Conduct, and Business Practice Rules, and has been taking a proactive role in ensuring the industry meets enhanced transparency requirements driven by the G-20 from the FX perspective, including the FX Global Code.

David is accountant by profession graduated from the University of Birmingham with Master degree in Public Administration and Development, and qualified with Arthur Andersen. David had since then being a Regulator with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s Enforcement Division, and followed by various regional compliance management positions with major financial institutions including Macquarie and J.P. Morgan.

Other than Compliance, David has also been advising Global Markets Business Units and participating in various committees with the Regulators, and Markets Associations in the region, including being the co-convenor of the conduct and disciplinary committee, and examinations committee for the Hong Kong regulatory body.

Tarik Senhaji

Chief Executive Officer, Bourse de Casablanca

Mr. Tarik SENHAJI is the Chief Executive Officer of Bourse de Casablanca (Casablanca Stock Exchange). He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) in Paris. He be-gan his career as a Financial Officer at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in Washington DC, before moving to London where he held various management positions in capital markets at Société Générale, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Calyon CIB and Natixis CIB.

Mr. Tarik SENHAJI has accumulated over 25 years of experience in the financial sec-tor on the Moroccan and international markets. Before his new position as CEO of Bourse de Casablanca, he was Managing Director of Ithmar Capital, the Moroccan strategic investment fund.

Bjørn Sibbern

Chief Executive Officer, SIX Group

Bjørn Sibbern has been the CEO of SIX since January 2025. Previously, since joining SIX in January 2024, he led the stock exchange business as Global Head Exchanges and a Member of the Executive Board. Bjørn Sibbern has experience managing large teams in the fields of trading, funds, post-trade, listings, IPOs, data, index business, and technology. Before joining SIX, he served as Executive Vice President and President of European Markets at Nasdaq. In this role, he led the Nasdaq markets and exchanges across the Nordic and Baltic regions. He was also responsible for trading, listing, clearing, settlement, and the data business in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and the Baltic nations. Prior to this, Bjørn was Executive Vice President and responsible for Nasdaq global data, data & analytics and index business working out of Nasdaq headquarter in New York. Before joining Nasdaq, Bjørn Sibbern was CEO at E*TRADE Bank Denmark from 2006 to 2008 and held key roles at OMX and Stocknet Norway. The Danish citizen holds an Executive Master in Business Administration, a Graduate Diploma in Finance, and a Master in Business Administration and Commercial Law from Copenhagen Business School.

Other Activities and Mandates

Chairman, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles SA (BME), Madrid

Chairman or Board Member of various SIX Group Ltd companies

Chairman Working Committee, World Federation of Exchanges WFE, London

Chairman of the Board of Directors Aquis Exchange Ltd., London

Nandini Sukumar

Chief Executive Officer, The World Federation of Exchanges

Nandini Sukumar is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Federation of Exchanges, the global association for exchanges and CCPs. The WFE represents more than 250 exchanges and clearing houses globally, educating stakeholders on the vital role played by market infrastructures in the real economy and as a standard setter, finding the consensus on issues among the global membership. Of its members, 35% are in Asia-Pacific, 45% in EMEA and 20% in the Americas. WFE exchanges are home to 47,919 listed companies, and the market capitalisation of these entities is over $109 trillion; around $137 trillion (EOB) in trading annually passes through WFE members (at end 2020). WFE’s 57 member CCPs collectively ensure that risk takers post some $800bn (equivalent) of resources to back their positions, in the form of initial margin and default fund requirements. Ms. Sukumar is Vice Chair of IOSCO’s Affiliate Members Consultative Committee and Chair of the AMCC’s Sustainability Taskforce.

Jalil Tarif

Secretary General, The Union of Arab Securities Authorities (UASA)

Carlson Tong

Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited

Mr Carlson Tong is Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.  

Mr Tong is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of MTR Corporation Limited, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited; and a director of the World Federation of Exchanges. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of National Financial Regulatory Administration.

He was Chairman of KPMG China and Hong Kong from 2007 to 2011 and was Chairman of the Asia-Pacific region and a member of KPMG’s global board from 2009 to 2011. He was also an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered PLC from 2019 to 2024.

Mr Tong has been actively involved in capital markets throughout his career, with deep expertise in corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He served as a member of the Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from 2002 to 2006, before becoming the chair from 2006 to 2008. 

Mr Tong was appointed Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission from 2012 to 2018. He oversaw the launch of several major policy initiatives during his term, including the introduction of the landmark Stock Connect programme and the mutual recognition of funds between Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Mr Tong has also been devoting his time to the local community, and was very active in Hong Kong’s education and youth sectors. He was Chairman of the English Schools Foundation, the Hong Kong Sports Institute and the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.

 Mr Tong is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He received the 2022 ICAEW Outstanding Achievement Award, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an honorary Doctor of Social Science by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as an honorary Doctor of Social Sciences by the Education University of Hong Kong. 

Mr Tong was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star and the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2014 and 2019, respectively.

Dr. Matthias Voelkel

Chief Executive Officer, Boerse Stuttgart Group

Dr. Matthias Voelkel has been Chief Executive Officer of Boerse Stuttgart Group since 1 January 2022. He is also Chairperson of the Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Holding GmbH.

Prior to this, Dr Matthias Voelkel joined McKinsey in 2006, was elected partner in 2013 and became leader of the global Capital Markets Infrastructure and Exchanges Practice in 2014. Before joining McKinsey, he was an advisor to the Chairwoman of the European Parliament's Committee for Budgetary Control from 2002 to 2004.

Dr. MatthiasVoelkel holds a doctorate in law and studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Oxford and Heidelberg. He completed his legal clerkship at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the German Embassy in the US, among other locations. 

Since March 2023, Dr. Matthias Voelkel has been a member of the Board of the “Deutsches Aktieninstitut” (DAI) and is committed to strengthening the German and European capital markets.

Kendal Vroman

Chief Transformation Officer, CME Group

Kendal (Ken) Vroman serves as CME Group’s Chief Transformation Officer. He is re-sponsible for overseeing the company’s migration process as part of its 10-year partnership with Google Cloud to transform global derivatives markets through cloud adoption. He also leads the planning and execution function across the or-ganization.

Prior to assuming his current role, he most recently served as Senior Managing Di-rector, International and Optimization Services.

Since joining the company in 2001, Vroman has held a variety of senior leadership roles including Managing Director of Planning and Execution, Global Head of Commodity Products and OTC Solutions, and Managing Director and Chief Corporate Development Officer. Vroman played a key leadership role in integration planning associated with the NEX acquisition in 2018, the CME/CBOT merger in 2007, the historic CME/CBOT clearing agreement in 2003-2004 and the company's initial public offering in 2002.

Before joining the company, he worked as Vice President, Corporate Operations/Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer for marchFIRST Inc. from 1999-2001. At marchFIRST, he handled a variety of executive level project management tasks, including integrating staff and operations during the 2000 merger of US-Web/CKS and Whittman-Hart. Prior to the merger, Vroman served as Principal for Whittman-Hart’s

Collaborative Technologies Group from 1995-99. He also worked as a Senior Consultant for Andersen Consulting LLP’s Americas Information Systems Division.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in applied computer science from Illinois State University and a master’s of management degree, with an emphasis in finance and marketing, from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.