Abdullah Hiyatt

CEO Theta Trading Technologies

Abdullah has 20+ years’ experience in capital markets as well as positions at Capco and EY working with sell-side firms on strategy, design and building electronic trading solutions. His focus then shifted to the buy-side with a senior consulting role at Etrading Software, where he worked alongside large asset managers on the feasibility of Project Neptune, which was tasked with tackling liquidity issues in the fixed income markets.More recently, Abdullah was working with Deutsche Wealth Management on Project SPARTA to design and build a new global multi-asset trading platform and also led the delivery of key MiFID II solutions. In April 2018, Abdullah formed Theta Trading Technologies, code named Project Iceberg to build a buy-side multi-asset trading infrastructure as a service encompassing pricing, O/EMS, liquidity aggregation, AI and analytics, risk and compliance modular components.