Leslie Nicholson appointed Chief Product Officer at BITA
Based in Toronto, Canada, Leslie will be responsible for product management and delivery, overseeing both BITA’s data and product development teams.
Leslie joins as an experienced product leader with over twenty years in the wealth management and investment industry. Alongside extensive strategic planning and business development skills, she has an impressive track record of achievements at Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), PriceMetrix, CIBC Wealth Management and Nasdaq.
Previously Head of Indexes and ESG Data Products at TMX Group, Leslie’s scope encompassed TSX, TSX Venture Exchange and Bourse de Montréal. The index and ESG products under her remit provided investors with data, insights and analytics for making investment decisions in TSX and Venture listed companies as well as Montréal derivative products.
Commenting on the appointment, BITA CEO Victor Gomez said: “We’re excited to welcome Leslie to the team and leverage her extensive experience in the areas of indexing, thematics, ESG and technology. Leslie’s expertise will be invaluable in furthering our innovation in these areas and for scaling and improving our products and services.”
Recently, BITA has focused their expansions globally; opening new representative offices in both Barcelona, Spain and New York, United States. With these latest additions, BITA aims to accelerate their go-to-market strategy and increase business activity worldwide.
About BITA
BITA is a leading technology-enabled Fintech in the field of index licensing, calculation services and the world’s first provider of self-indexing software solutions. The company serves institutional clients, asset & wealth managers, registered investment advisors and other professional investors across multiple markets. BITA supports them in the development of innovative and thematic indexes and licenses proprietary indexes, ESG and Crypto data, and software solutions.
BITA offers index administration services as a benchmark administrator, registered under the BMR by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
BITA ACE is our cloud-based index calculation engine which enables both us and our clients to calculate and maintain indexes in real-time.
BITACore is our all-in-one integrated self-indexing platform which allows clients to design, build, backtest and launch indexes, indexed investment strategies, and rules-based portfolios. BITACore clients benefit from Bita’s proprietary thematics database and expansive ESG data and analytics at their fingertips, and thorough back-testing of a strategy in one click. BITACore API offers clients the flexibility to offer their own clients direct indexing.
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