Amrita Rajagopal, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Amrita is global head of Equities Client Platforms Engineering within the Global Markets Division. She is responsible for developing the client connectivity platform, onboarding automation and client reference data systems. Amrita co-sponsors the Equities chapter of the Women in Engineering network. Previously, she held a number of roles in New York and Tokyo within Equities Technology.

Katie Kolchin, CFA, Managing Director, Head of Research, SIFMA

Ms. Kolchin is an experienced research analyst, proficient in sell side equity and fixed income research. She has extensive global capital markets industry knowledge garnered through a unique set of professional experiences. Currently, she is the Head of Research at SIFMA, running the team performing the data and analysis work for the firm, as well as creating and authoring the SIFMA Insights research brand. Here she capitalizes on her background to identify trends and structural shifts in capital markets, analyze the intersection of traditional financial institution business models and emerging financial technologies, and assess winning corporate strategies for the new capital markets environment.

Previously, Ms. Kolchin was a senior equity research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities, covering exchanges and capital markets firms on a global basis. Prior to that, she was a senior investment research analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, covering exchanges, clearing houses, and other market infrastructure firms and launching on Moody’s clearing industry coverage. She also analyzed the global investment banks for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and worked as a global equity research analyst at UBS Securities, where she performed fundamental research and undertook an investment strategy role.

A CFA® charterholder, Ms. Kolchin is a member of the CFA Society New York’s Board of Directors Nominations Committee. She holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and both a BA in Economics and BS in Environmental Science from Lehigh University.

Michael Lynch, Chief Product Officer, Symphony

Michael Lynch is the chief product officer at Symphony, the leading financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform. He joined the company in June 2021 and is responsible for Symphony’s strategic product direction including product vision, design, and development as well as user research. Prior to Symphony, he was head of digital workplace product strategy at Goldman Sachs. He also spent 12 years at Bloomberg where he held multiple product leadership roles.

Lee Saba, Co-Chair Global Steering Committee, FIX Trading Community, CTO, Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets

Lee Saba brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Rialto as Head of Market Structure, Lee was Managing Director and Principal at Wellington Management where he was responsible for proprietary and third party multi-asset electronic trading and connectivity infrastructure. For over 17 years, Lee led and contributed to industry standards on a variety of concepts including FIX post-trade for equities, futures and FX, execution venue normalization, risk mitigation symbology and electronic trading risk controls. While at Wellington, Lee headed the inaugural IT FinTech Working Group and was a vocal advocate of the investor hub for blockchain and digital assets research. Lee currently serves as the co-chair for the FIX Trading Community (https://www.fixtrading.org) consisting of 290+ members worldwide and is also an active steering committee member for Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business FinTech Initiative.