Grand Keynote
Closing Grand Keynote
About This Talk
Speakers
Lynn Martin is President of NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest stock market. Martin is the 68th President of the New York Stock Exchange and the second woman to lead the exchange in its 229-year history. The NYSE, the premier venue for capital raising, is the listing home to 2,400 of the world’s most influential and innovative companies. In addition to the exchange, NYSE Group includes four fully electronic equity markets, including NYSE Arca, the industry leader in ETFs, and two options exchanges. Martin is also Chair of Fixed Income and Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), the parent of NYSE Group. Most recently, she was President of that business, responsible for ICE Bonds execution venues, securities pricing and analytics, reference data, indices, desktop solutions, consolidated feeds and connectivity services that cover all major asset classes. She previously served as President of ICE Data Services, COO of ICE Clear U.S., and in a number of leadership roles including CEO of NYSE Liffe U.S. and CEO of New York Portfolio Clearing. Martin began her career at IBM in its Global Services organization. Martin holds a BS in Computer Science from Manhattan College and an MA in Statistics from Columbia University. She serves on the Manhattan College Board of Trustees as well as the Advisory Board of the School of Science and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society.
Vikas J. Parekh (Moderator)
Managing Partner
SoftBank
SoftBank
Vikas is a Managing Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund where he focuses on investing in Enterprise Software, and emerging technologies.  Representative investments include Attentive, Cohesity, Mapbox, Pantheon.io, OSIsoft, Redis, and Slack. Prior to SoftBank Vikas worked in Private Equity at KKR, and in Consulting at Boston Consulting Group.  Vikas holds an MBA with highest honors from Harvard Business School, a BS in Electrical Engineering (Highest Honors) and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.