Remaining close to customers and hands-on with technology.
The Leadership Team
Janhavi Dadarkar
Chair of the Board of Directors
In Janhavi, Adaptive boasts a Chair of the board who brings a wealth of experience in governance, strategy and risk mitigation. A former corporate media lawyer from DLA Piper, one of the largest global law firms and current Governance programme lead at the Institute of Directors, her deep strategic insight and knowledge of governance for high growth and international markets ensures the board is balanced between deep industry knowledge and a breadth of skills to enable Adaptive to continue its success story. She holds a portfolio of NED and advisory positions and is a regular media commentator and conference speaker.
Matteo Cassina
Non Executive Director
In Matteo, we have a solid financial services professional with international experience in the industry for over two decades. After working at a number of big banks including BNP Paribas, he joined Goldman Sachs as Head of Prime Access SM, supporting the needs of the first wave of Fintech players (online brokers and digital wealth managers) across EMEA. He subsequently moved to Merrill Lynch as Head of Total Trader SM, providing electronic execution (DMA and ALGORITHMIC) for broker dealers, proptrading shops and retail aggregators. The service includes clearing, financing, stock loan, and custody for all asset classes. Later on, he served as President of Citadel Securities Europe, before joining SAXO bank where he was CEO (UK), member of the board of Directors (France), and member of the global executive committee of Saxo Bank (Copenhagen) where he run the bank’s 27 offices around the world. Matteo has also been on the board of Nasdaq Europe and Boerse Berlin. He is passionate about cycling where he holds a number of private investments.
