Witad Awards 2021: Technology leader of the year—Lauren Dillard, Nasdaq
As a new generation of investors gets more involved in the market, it’s important to make investing and access to financial information more accessible. Lauren Dillard, executive vice president and head of investment intelligence at Nasdaq, has made this one of her key initiatives and is expanding the exchange’s data relationships with financial services firms and startups in the US, Asia, and other regions.
The result of that strategy is the launch of Nasdaq’s NextGen Solutions and Cloud Data
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