Witad Awards 2023: Technology leader of the year (vendor)—Brenda Hoffman, Nasdaq
Nasdaq’s Brenda Hoffman knows what it takes to evolve a stock exchange. Upon graduating from college, she started her career selling networking technology to stock exchanges. Today, she’s the executive vice president and CTO of market platforms at Nasdaq.
Her career includes time spent at IBM in the 1990s selling tech to exchanges in Europe. In the 2000s, she joined the Toronto Stock Exchange where she was tasked with modernizing its technology stack. After 12 years in Canada, she wanted a new
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