Kevin Brady, co-founder and CEO of A2X Markets
Kevin is a co-founder and the CEO of A2X Markets. A2X is a licenced Stock Exchange regulated by the Financial Services Conduct Authority and Prudential Authority of South Africa.
In 2014, Kevin partnered with Sean Melnick and Ashley Mendelowitz to create a new South African stock exchange. The goal was to bring healthy competition to the South African equity market and break a 130 year-long monopoly. Together they co-founded A2X (Pty) Ltd.
By using the latest exchange technology and efficiencies, Kevin and his team created a low-cost platform for companies to secondary list their shares for trade. A2X started trading in October 2017 and now has 171 instruments listed with a combined market cap of over R11 trillion.
Kevin was raised in South Africa, Australia and the UK and has a business studies honours degree from the London Metropolitan University. He has over 25 years of financial market experience which included 12 years at Investec, nine of which were as head of Investec Institutional Securities and Prime Broking division and eight years at institutional stock broker, Barnard Jacobs Mellet (BJM) where he was a director and head of the equity trading desk.