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Liquidity Lock is a sessions-based portfolio trading solution unlocking deeper liquidity for participants across global markets.

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Liquidity Lock is a sessions-based portfolio trading solution unlocking deeper liquidity for participants across global markets.

Find out how, contact us for a demo

Liquidity Lock is a sessions-based portfolio trading solution unlocking deeper liquidity for participants across global markets.

Find out how, contact us for a demo

Leadership

Mark Davies
CEO

Mark has held senior positions in both buy and sell-side firms across the Americas, Europe, and Asia for over 34 years. He spent 10 years at Credit Suisse Group as Co-Head of European Rates and Head of Global Credit Derivatives Trading. He was also Head of Credit Trading at Bear, Stearns & Co, Head of Fixed Income Strategies at Point 72, and PIMCO’s Chief Risk Officer in 2009. Mark spent his last 12 years at Bank of America, where he held various roles, including Co-Head of Global Emerging Markets trading, Market Risk Manager, and Head of Global Markets Trading Risk.

Sandeep Karkera
CTO

Sandeep Karkera is a seasoned technology expert with over 23 years of experience. He co-founded and successfully sold LMRTKS, a portfolio compression platform that reduces leverage and risk while generating thousands of trades. Sandeep also spent a decade developing real-time risk and trading algorithms for Susquehanna’s Equity Options desk. He began his career building Standard and Poor’s Index computation engine and is passionate about leveraging emerging technology to drive organizational growth. Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Finance.

Josh Litven
Head Quant

Joshua Litven has spent his career applying mathematical techniques to addressing inefficiencies in the market. Joining the fintech startup LMRKTS in 2017, he led development of a multilateral optimization service which reduced financial firms’ largest counterparty exposures and subsequent costs. He received his Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia where he worked on developing parallel algorithms to simulate realistic collisions between highly deformable objects.

Shawn Pearce
CFO

Shawn’s expertise is in trading, strategy, and operations. Formerly trader, desk head, and then Global COO at BofA in FICC Emerging Markets, he led key initiatives, expanded market access, and interacted with global regulators. He traded interest rate, inflation, and basis swaps, FX and FX options, and cash bonds in Latin America and Europe for over 10 years. Shawn received a master’s from Columbia University and a B.S. from Wake Forest University. He is a board member at the Bison Children’s Scholarship Fund.

Jasmeet Gujral
Head of Engineering

Jasmeet specializes in quantitative analytics and development with over 14 years of experience. He is a strong ambassador of data-driven decision-making and has developed tools enabling trading, sales, and research to access data easily and draw meaningful conclusions. Previously with Natwest, he led the Quant Analytics India team responsible for developing and maintaining FICC’s relative value trading tools and indicators. Jasmeet holds has a B-Tech degree from IIT Kanpur, a Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), and is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by GARP US.

Amir Benavi
Head of Operations

Amir Benavi is a seasoned hybrid trader/financial engineer with over 13 years of experience in cross-asset products within fixed income at Bank of America. He helped develop CVA/FVA functions in XVA Trading, worked on the KVA Trading launch in 2016, and started on the centralized cross-asset FICC ETF desk in 2010. Amir holds an MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dan Malone
Head of Client Engagement

Dan brings 30+ years of experience in roles spanning Sales, Trading and Portfolio Management. Since 2005 he has been Head of Sales for Interest Rates, MBS, Short Duration, FX and Electronic Platforms at Lehman Brothers, Barclays, Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas. His first 15 years were spent at Citi as a Portfolio Manager, Options Trader and Salesperson. He has vast relationships across both the buy and sell side. Dan is an alumni of Villanova University where he serves on the Finance Division Advisory Council.

Dan Marcus
Strategy Advisor

Dan is a strategic advisor focused on business development and regulatory strategy. Previously, he was co-head of Tradition’s EMEA business managed out of London. He helped create and was the CEO of two consortium-based electronic trading platforms (Trad-X and ParFX). Dan is a qualified solicitor and was previously General Counsel at Tradition. Prior to this, he was Senior Counsel at the London Stock Exchange, where he was responsible for regulatory, IT, corporate and commercial legal work.

Board of Directors and Strategic Advisors

Lucio Biase
Chairman of the Board, Founder

Lucio Biase started his career at Credit Suisse and went on to trade at Marathon Asset Management. In 2005 he left to start his first FinTech, NetDelta, to address the issues endemic to the Credit Derivative Market. His 2007 patent for pooled credit risk US8781952B1 was a precursor to the distributed ledger. In 2011 he founded LMRKTS which introduced the concept of reducing risk by adding trades. LMRKTS remained the largest reducer of FX Risk and leverage in the world until it was acquired in late 2021. He founded Thunnus Technology to create and incubate various FinTechs including Liquidity Lock. Lucio holds a degree from Columbia University in Economics, Environmental Biology and Pre-Medical Sciences, is a conservationist and an avid outdoorsman.

Bryan Weadock
Vice Chairman, Strategic Advisor

Bryan Weadock is a senior executive with 30 years of experience leading sales organizations in the financial industry. As Managing Director, Co-Head, Global FICC Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he achieved Top 3 rankings from Greenwich Associates and Coalition, overseeing an 800-person sales team and $8 BB in client revenue. At J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., as Managing Director, Head of North American Fixed Income & Currencies Sales, his 400+ person salesforce generated $4.5 BB in client revenues. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Boston College and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting from Northeastern University.

Mark Davies
Board Member, CEO

Mark has held senior positions in both buy and sell-side firms across the Americas, Europe, and Asia for over 34 years. He spent 10 years at Credit Suisse Group as Co-Head of European Rates and Head of Global Credit Derivatives Trading. He was also Head of Credit Trading at Bear, Stearns & Co, Head of Fixed Income Strategies at Point 72, and PIMCO’s Chief Risk Officer in 2009. Mark spent his last 12 years at Bank of America, where he held various roles, including Co-Head of Global Emerging Markets trading, Market Risk Manager, and Head of Global Markets Trading Risk.

Sandeep Karkera
Board Member, CTO

Sandeep Karkera is a seasoned technology expert with over 23 years of experience. He co-founded and successfully sold LMRTKS, a portfolio compression platform that reduces leverage and risk while generating thousands of trades. Sandeep also spent a decade developing real-time risk and trading algorithms for Susquehanna’s Equity Options desk. He began his career building Standard and Poor’s Index computation engine and is passionate about leveraging emerging technology to drive organizational growth. Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Finance.

Board of Directors and Strategic Advisors

Mark Davies
Board Member, CEO

Mark has held senior positions in both buy and sell-side firms across the Americas, Europe, and Asia for over 34 years. He spent 10 years at Credit Suisse Group as Co-Head of European Rates and Head of Global Credit Derivatives Trading. He was also Head of Credit Trading at Bear, Stearns & Co, Head of Fixed Income Strategies at Point 72, and PIMCO’s Chief Risk Officer in 2009. Mark spent his last 12 years at Bank of America, where he held various roles, including Co-Head of Global Emerging Markets trading, Market Risk Manager, and Head of Global Markets Trading Risk.

Sandeep Karkera
Board Member, CTO

Sandeep Karkera is a seasoned technology expert with over 23 years of experience. He co-founded and successfully sold LMRTKS, a portfolio compression platform that reduces leverage and risk while generating thousands of trades. Sandeep also spent a decade developing real-time risk and trading algorithms for Susquehanna’s Equity Options desk. He began his career building Standard and Poor’s Index computation engine and is passionate about leveraging emerging technology to drive organizational growth. Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Finance.

Lucio Biase
Chairman of the Board, Founder

Lucio Biase started his career at Credit Suisse and went on to trade at Marathon Asset Management. In 2005 he left to start his first FinTech, NetDelta, to address the issues endemic to the Credit Derivative Market. His 2007 patent for pooled credit risk US8781952B1 was a precursor to the distributed ledger. In 2011 he founded LMRKTS which introduced the concept of reducing risk by adding trades. LMRKTS remained the largest reducer of FX Risk and leverage in the world until it was acquired in late 2021. He founded Thunnus Technology to create and incubate various FinTechs including Liquidity Lock. Lucio holds a degree from Columbia University in Economics, Environmental Biology and Pre-Medical Sciences, is a conservationist and an avid outdoorsman.

Bryan Weadock
Vice Chairman, Strategic Advisor

Bryan Weadock is a senior executive with 30 years of experience leading sales organizations in the financial industry. As Managing Director, Co-Head, Global FICC Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he achieved Top 3 rankings from Greenwich Associates and Coalition, overseeing an 800-person sales team and $8 BB in client revenue. At J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., as Managing Director, Head of North American Fixed Income & Currencies Sales, his 400+ person salesforce generated $4.5 BB in client revenues. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Boston College and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting from Northeastern University.

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LLGM Macro IB LLC (LLGM) conducts a sessions-based portfolio solution that provides a facility that enables the generation of a series of pre-arranged trades in commodity derivatives effected on or subject to applicable exchange or execution facility rules. Trading commodity derivatives is not suitable for all investors and involves substantial risk of loss. Information contained on this website is neither research nor an offer to buy or sell any derivative. LLGM only provides a service to clients who are qualified Eligible Contract Participants classified as such under the Commodity Exchange Act who have been accepted as customers of LLGM. LLGM is a member of the National Futures Association, and registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission as an introducing broker. The information contained on this website does not constitute an opinion, recommendation or suggestion that any product, investment or strategy referenced may be suitable for you, and does not take into account the particular investment objectives, financial conditions, or needs of any individual. The information is not to be relied upon in substitution for the exercise of your independent judgment. Seek independent financial, tax, legal and accounting advice from your own professional advisors, based upon your particular circumstances. No representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of the information and LLGM assumes no obligation to correct or update the information. Information on this website derived from third party sources is believed to be reliable, but LLGM do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information and assume no responsibility to verify information, and are not responsible for inadvertent technical errors that may occur on the website. The information on this website is proprietary and may not be reproduced, disseminated in any form by any means or referred to, in whole or in part without prior written consent of LLGM. LLGM is not counterparty to any transactions in commodity derivatives and does not custody such assets on your behalf. All commodity derivatives transactions occur on or subject to the rules of a CFTC regulated swap execution facility or an authorized multilateral transaction execution facility subject to UK or EU regulation. Any positions in swaps or options are custodied solely with your clearing firm and held in an account in your name outside of LLGM.

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