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Adena Friedman, President, and CEO of Nasdaq joined the firm on Jan 1, 2017, and she serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Her career spans more than two decades of industry leadership and experience, and she is generally considered as having played a pivotal role in the transformation of Nasdaq into a major worldwide exchange and technology solutions provider having operations on six continents.
At the time of her retirement, Adena served as the company’s President as well as Chief Operating Officer, where she was in charge of overseeing all of the firm’s business areas, with a special focus on enhancing efficiency while also driving the development of new products, growth, and expansion. Adena was appointed as the company’s chief executive officer in 2017.
It was in 2014 that she returned to Nasdaq after working as Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director of Carlyle Group from March 2011 to June 2014. During that time, she played a key role in the firm’s initial public offering (IPO), which took place in May of that year. From March 2011 until June 2014, she served as The Chief Financial Officer & Managing Partner of The Carlyle Group, where she had previously worked.
Before entering Carlyle, Adena spent more than a decade as a part of Nasdaq’s management team, serving in a variety of roles, including head of a company’s data products business, director of the corporate strategies, & Chief Financial Officer.
Among other enterprises, the purchase at INET, OMX, as well as the Philadelphia & Boston Exchanges were all important components of Nasdaq’s acquisitions strategy, as well as she played a crucial role in executing that plan. As an intern when she initially began to work at Nasdaq in 1993, she learned a lot about the company.
Apart from her responsibilities as president, Freidman, who’s 48 years old, was chosen CEO of the Nasdaq Stock Market in 2017 and is also the first woman to hold this position. She is the very first woman who occupies this position, and she might be the first woman to serve as the head of a global exchange organisation.
The business sectors under her supervision are streamlined, product development is prioritised, and the company’s growth is encouraged. Under her leadership, Nasdaq expanded into a major global exchange & technology solutions firm that operates on six continents, with activities in over 100 countries.
Since December 2018, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has named Adena to its board of directors, where she serves as a Class – B director. Founded as a non-profit organisation, FCLTGlobal researches instruments to promote long-term investing, and she has just been elected to the organisation’s Board of Directors.
She will begin sitting on the boards in January 2020, after which she will step down. Adena began her term as a member of the Vanderbilts University Board of Trustees on July 1, 2020, and she will remain on the board until the end of the calendar year that follows.
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst awarded her a Bachelor’s degree in political science as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Owen School Of management of Vanderbilt University.
In addition to her position as a director at Nasdaq, Freidman is a member of several other corporate boards. In addition to New York Federal Reserve Bank, FCLTGlobal, a non-profit organisation that works on techniques to encourage long-term investment, and the Greater Washington, DC Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development are among others who have signed on to the letter of recommendation.
An official Junior Achievement branch has been founded in the region, which is a non-profit organisation that aids young people in reaching financial independence via education and work. The issue of women in leadership positions, as well as pushing for mentoring and increasing career opportunities for women inside the financial sector, is one on which Freidman speaks often.
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