Ed Addvensky is Vice President, Global Client Development and is responsible for the Fixed Income and Data Services business of ICE. In this capacity, he leads the company’s Relationship Management, Sales, and Business Development functions in the Americas and the relationship with its global accounts through the leadership of the Global Relationship Manager team. These teams focus on ensuring client satisfaction, growth, and retention through the development and management of customer relationships across its Pricing, Index and Analytics, Reference Data, Connectivity, and Real Time Feed offerings.

Ed previously held several Sales and Sales Management roles for Interactive Data Corporation, which was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in late 2015. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Boston College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Fordham University.

Chris Edmonds is the President of Fixed Income & Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE). He is responsible for managing ICE’s global fixed income and data business, including pricing analytics, reference data, indices, mortgage data, desktop solutions, consolidated feeds, connectivity services and the ICE Bonds execution venues. In addition, he oversees ICE’s sustainable finance product initiatives around sustainable investing through data and analytics. In addition to his duties at ICE, he serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Financial Sector Advisory Council.

Edmonds most recently served as Chief Development Officer where he oversaw all of ICE’s clearing house operations and the global risk management team. Additionally, he coordinated the company’s marketing and public relations endeavors. He previously served as Global Head of Clearing & Risk and SVP of Financial Markets, where he oversaw the development of initiatives within ICE’s exchanged listed and OTC financial markets, and President of ICE Clear Credit, ICE’s credit default swap (CDS) clearing house.

Prior to joining ICE in February 2010, Edmonds was Chief Executive Officer of the International Derivatives Exchange Group (IDCG) a clearing house for interest rate swaps. Prior to IDCG, Edmonds was the Chief Development Officer for ICAP Energy. Edmonds held a variety of positions at ICAP between 2002 and 2008, and at APB Energy between 1997 and 2002. His professional career prior to APB Energy focused on advising businesses on strategic planning in the areas of technology, sales and marketing.

Edmonds earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Sara Devereux is a principal at Vanguard and global head of its Fixed Income Group, which manages over $2 trillion in assets. The group focuses on portfolio management, trading, and research for Vanguard’s internally managed fixed income funds and ETFs, including actively managed bond and money market portfolios and bond index portfolios. She is also the chair of the Senior Investment Committee team responsible for Vanguard’s actively managed fixed income portfolios, a member of the firm’s Global Investment Committee, and a member of its Investment Risk Council.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Devereux served as global head of rates, with oversight of all active rates, money market portfolios, and rates-related strategies across the active taxable fixed income franchise. She also had oversight of foreign exchange and derivatives trading activities. Before joining Vanguard in 2019, Ms. Devereux was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she spent over 20 years in mortgagebacked securities and structured products trading and sales. Earlier in her career, she worked at HSBC in risk management advisory and interest rate derivatives structuring. She started her career as an actuary at AXA Equitable Life Insurance. Ms. Devereux holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Based in New York, she and her team focus primarily on delivering global macro thought leadership, investment insights and content to both retail and institutional clients of the firm. With over two decades of experience in the financial services industry, Gargi has built her career around portfolio management in the fixed income markets, trading and macro strategy.

She joined BlackRock’s Global Fixed income group as a sector specialist in 2010, focusing on real and nominal rate relative value and trading. In 2013, she transitioned to the global inflation portfolio management team as senior portfolio manager, focusing on alpha generation, risk management and portfolio positioning for global inflation-linked bond portfolios. From 2017 to 2020, she was head of Platform Strategy for the Fundamental Fixed income platform at BlackRock and head of Canadian fixed income, focusing on global macro thought leadership and tying it platform conversations with institutional clients.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she spent nine years on the sell side at Jefferies & Co. and Merrill Lynch. As a VP at Jefferies & Co.,she ran the US inflation trading desk, built the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) franchise, and provided liquidity in TIPS to institutional clients. She began her career in 2001 on the government bond trading desk at Merrill Lynch, focusing on providing liquidity and market making in TIPS and treasury securities.

Gargi is often a keynote speaker at large scale industry events and conferences focusing on multi asset investment insights, monetary policy and inflation. She is a frequent contributor to media, appearing on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, Yahoo Finance and CBS as well as podcasts and print media (WSJ, FT, Kiplinger, Barrons). She was named as one of Linked in “Top Voices” in Finance.

She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University where she is currently a member of the Board of Trustees. Outside of BlackRock, she is an avid runner, hiker and a triathlete and has completed multiple marathons, ultra-marathons, half Ironmans and the New York Ironman.

Veteran journalist Jeff Cox is the economics editor for CNBC.com where he covers the latest data, the Federal Reserve and how the developments impact financial markets. His stories are routinely among the most-read items on the site each day as he interviews some of the smartest and most well-respected economists and analysts in the financial world. He also is a frequent commentator on NBC News Now and has appeared many times on CNBC broadcast and MSNBC as well as radio outlets across the country.

Cox also is co-author of two business books: 2011′s “Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy” and 2016′s “The 30-Minute Millionaire,” both written with Peter J. Tanous, founder and chairman of Lynx Investment Advisory.

Over the course of a journalism career that began in 1987, Cox has covered everything from the collapse of the financial system to presidential politics to local government battles in his native Pennsylvania. He was won many awards during his career, from organizations such as the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and newspaper associations and New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Cox joined CNBC in 2007 just as the worst of the credit crisis was about to explode and as the website was still in the infancy of its new rollout.

He helped chronicle the collapse of Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers, writing insightful and important stories about the demise of some of Wall Street’s leading names and how investors could navigate their way through the crisis. His articles also have appeared in USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo Finance and other publications.

Prior to coming to CNBC, Cox worked at CNNMoney where he wrote a series of analyses that were the first to tie the surging demand for ethanol to rising prices at the supermarket. He wrote extensively on alternative energy while at CNN and covered technology and banking as well.

He also served as lead editor for award-winning projects on gangs, child molestation and the cost of education, a project on which he spoke at Columbia University. The cost of education series was honored by the New Jersey Press Association for public service journalism. Cox also served as commencement speaker in 2019 for Luzerne County Community College in Pennsylvania.

In all, Cox spent 18 years in print, including nine years in senior editing positions.

A graduate of Bloomsburg University, Cox lives in Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River, with his wife, MaryEllen. On social media, he can be found at JeffCoxCNBCcom on Twitter and on LinkedIn.

Andy Walden serves as Vice President of Enterprise Research Strategy for intercontinental Exchange

(NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data. His informed outlook on the housing and mortgage markets is actively sought out by media, clients, industry organizations and governmental entities alike.

Andy is the guiding force behind ICE’s monthly Mortgage Monitor report that explores issues of importance to the real estate and housing finance sectors. As such, he is a frequent contributor to CNBC and is widely cited by the national media, business news outlets and industry publications.

His market insights are gleaned through in-depth analysis of ICE’s robust data assets, including its industry-leading McDash™ loan-level mortgage performance database; the ICE Home Price Index; ICE mortgage rate lock indices; ICE Market Trends origination data sets; SiteX™, a comprehensive U.S. property database; and numerous additional sources of information.

He has over 15 years of industry experience including default servicing operations, market surveillance and applied mortgage analytics. A 2021 HousingWire Rising Star, Andy is consistently recognized by his peers, and increasingly the nation at large, as one of the industry's most authoritative voices on housing market trends.

In this role, Larry is responsible for developing and delivering ICE’s data strategy and product roadmap surrounding sustainable finance. He works with financial market participants to support their and their clients’ sustainable finance goals in areas such as ESG.

He was previously head of ESG and climate product strategy for the wealth management, private assets, fund ratings, ESG reporting product lines at MSCI. He joined MSCI from KLD, a pioneer in the field of ESG investing. Larry served as a product manager with KLD, RiskMetrics and later MSCI, where he was instrumental in the development of the firm’s ESG ratings, governance metrics and ESG controversies product lines, as well as MSCI’s ESG platforms.

Larry holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Newbury College.

Mark Heckert is Chief Operating Officer at ICE Data Services, which is part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). He oversees the global sales and relationship management teams for ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services business. In this role, he oversees client-facing products and teams, ensuring seamless provision of ICE data and services to customers.

Heckert has over 25 years of experience serving the fixed income data industry and developing new products that bring more transparency to global markets. Before his role as Chief Operating Officer, Heckert was Chief Product Officer for ICE Data Services, supporting an array of solutions that enable customers to mark-to-market, benchmark, manage risk and determine investment strategies. He joined the company as part of ICE’s acquisition of Interactive Data in 2015, where he led the fixed income valuations business and oversaw the creation of the Continuous Evaluated Pricing service, which provides streaming evaluated bond prices for over 2.4 million securities.

Before joining Interactive Data in 1998, Heckert worked at State Street Bank & Trust Co. He holds an MBA in finance and strategy from Boston University and a BA in political economy from Michigan State University.

Max Gold is the Head of Direct Retail within the Client Coverage Group at State Street Global Advisors focused on the self-directed brokerage and digital advisory client segment. He also previously served as the Head of Gold Strategy within the SPDR ETF business. Before joining SSGA in July 2019, he served as the Director of Investment Strategy at Aberdeen Standard Investments, heading macroeconomic and commodity thought leadership for its U.S. ETF business. Prior to this he has also held roles within the Investment Research team at the World Gold Council, as an Investment Strategist with the Chief Investment Office at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, and with the Global Portfolio Construction team within JP Morgan Private Bank’s Chief Investment Office. Max holds an M.S. in finance from the Simon Business School and a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester. He is a CFA charterholder and holds the series 7 and 63 registrations.

Bob is the Chief Technology Officer at Addepar where he leads our global engineering teams to deliver client-centered innovations at scale. Since joining Addepar in 2020, Bob has built and managed world-class teams who drove many of Addepar’s platform, data, compute, and AI advances across the organization. This now serves as the foundation for Addepar’s multi-product strategy.

Prior to Addepar, Bob was the Chief Technology Officer at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, a global quantitative multi-manager hedge fund, where he led the firm through a complete technology transformation and global platform expansion. He is an experienced technology leader with 25 years of deep hands-on expertise in software, architecture, strategy, and digital transformation. Bob is passionate about building and scaling teams, aligning business and technology strategy, and the importance of innovation and culture as drivers of success.

He holds a B.A. from Long Island University and earned his M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Wasco is a Managing Director and Head of Americas Fixed Income for Citi Wealth where she is responsible for delivering best in class fixed income solutions in the Americas for advisors and clients of Citi Private Bank, Wealth at Work and Citigold. Emily focuses on providing sales and trading capabilities and portfolio guidance in taxable and municipal products while focusing on scaling and modernizing the overall platform to deliver a premiere client experience across fixed income.

Prior to joining Citi, Emily spent 15 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and was the Head of Fixed Income Sales and Trading and the Head of Client Segmentation and Channel Strategy. During her time at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Emily significantly improved efficiencies across the platform to drive deeper engagement with the Firm’s top Advisors and Clients. She led strategic initiatives across brokerage, investment advisory, and self-directed client segments to deliver a streamlined Fixed Income experience for Advisors and Clients across platforms. She also partnered closely with BAML’s institutional trading desks and control partners to ensure the business was connected and coordinated with the Firm’s broader trading business. Additionally, Emily represented the Firm in the industry as well as led electronic platform integration to source robust bond inventories and access to the best liquidity providers while ensuring best execution.

Emily is a member of the SIFMA Retail Fixed Income Committee and holds Bachelors of Science degrees in finance and marketing from Syracuse University.

David Scalzetti CFA, joined ICE Data Services in 2014 to lead our regulatory solutions initiatives. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst with over 20 years of experience with structured products and regulation. In this capacity, David and his team monitors regulations such as Basel III, FRTB, MiFID II, Liquidity regulations, SEC proposals and changes to the Investment Company Act, as well as tax regulations. He holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Binghamton University.

Julian Grey is Executive Vice President of the data and analytics business at ICE Mortgage Technology. In this role, she leads product management for data and analytics solutions that help drive success for the mortgage and capital markets verticals.

Julian is a proven industry professional with a long track record of innovation in data and predictive analytics, as well as analytics and technology solutions, including housing indices, home price forecasts, and housing market forecasts. Prior to joining ICE (and its predecessor companies), Julian developed effective solutions that measure risk and valuation, and has held general management and P&L responsibilities for Mortgage Credit Risk and Capital Markets Solutions.

Julian is a respected leader in the industry for her continued focus on innovation and ability to launch leading-edge solutions for home price indexes, forecasts and real estate analytics, and she is known for her expertise in predicting estimates of mortgage performance, prepayment and default rates, valuation analytics, and spearheading cloud based, big data, technology solutions.

Julian has gained a wealth of experience managing the full life cycle of complex predictive analytics, data, and SaaS and web-based solutions serving financial services industries. In 2016, The MReport magazine selected Julian for its prestigious Women in Housing list, and in both 2015 and 2017, she was named one of HousingWire magazine’s Women of Influence. In 2023, she was awarded the Housing Wire Vanguard award . Julian earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Mills College in California.

Conrad Ficca is an accomplished business executive with over two decades of experience in the financial services industry. He currently serves as the Vice President of Loan Data Products, a business unit of ICE Fixed Income and Data Services Division, and a leading provider of loan data analytics and insights.

Throughout his career, Ficca has demonstrated a deep understanding of the mortgage market and a commitment to delivering innovative solutions that help clients achieve their business goals. He has a proven track record of driving revenue growth and profitability, while also building strong relationships with customers and partners.

Prior to joining ICE Fixed Income and Data Services’ Loan Data Products, 19 years ago, Ficca spent 6 years learning the mortgage business at Home American Mortgage (MDC Holdings) and Stonecreek Funding.

Ficca is also a respected thought leader in the industry, sometimes speaking at industry conferences and events. He is known for his ability to aggregate and normalize complex datasets to produce actionable insights and has a passion for helping clients succeed.

Ficca holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University with a concentration in Economics and Statistics. He still lives and works in Colorado.

Chun Lin is Managing Director at BofA Securities and head of US Residential Mortgage Modeling. Chun and his team are responsible for covering trading desk strategy, research, and modeling of Agency MBS, CRT, and non-Agency MBS products. Previously, Chun spent over 10 years in Securitized Products research, modeling and analytics at Credit Suisse, Barclays, and JPMorgan. Chun received his Bachelor of Science degree from Peking University, and his PhD degree from Yale University.

Dane Smith is a founding member of Invictus Capital Partners and President of Verus, with more than 20 years of mortgage finance and capital markets experience.

Mr. Smith is responsible for the management of all Verus business units including Credit, Operations, Capital Markets, Finance and Sales. He is also a member of both the Management and Investment Committees and is responsible for identifying and sourcing new investment opportunities and overseeing portfolio management activities. He was instrumental in creating and implementing the analytical framework and models that Invictus uses to analyze and predict the performance of mortgage credit for both residential securities and whole loan investments.

Prior to Invictus, Mr. Smith worked at FBR as vice president of Investment Banking. At FBR, Mr. Smith helped create all analytics processes and tools for mortgage collateral and security analysis for principal investment, and was responsible for managing all aspects of mortgage backed securitization finance for both principal and third party transactions. Mr. Smith started his career as an analyst at Wachovia Securities in the Investment Banking Asset Securitization group. Mr. Smith received a B.E., magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, with dual majors in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics.

Varun Pawar is the Chief Product Officer at ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services (FIDS) business (NYSE: ICE). In his role, Pawar oversees product development and innovation across indices, entity data, reference data, evaluated pricing for bonds and derivatives, analytics and data operations globally.

From June 2022 to December 2023, Pawar headed ICE Data Indices overseeing product development, business strategy and operations globally. Prior June 2022, Pawar headed up quantitative teams at ICE FIDS focused on improving precision of bond evaluation products and developing new products using a combination of proprietary data, technology, and human capital.

Pawar joined ICE in September 2019 after spending 12 years at Bloomberg developing their fixed income evaluated pricing business, BVAL. Pawar headed the BVAL business globally from 2015 to 2019.

Born and raised in Bangalore India, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Bangalore University and master’s degree in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Amit Deshpande is the head of Quantitative Investments & Research in the Fixed Income Division. He co-manages the QM US Enhanced Aggregate Bond Index, US Government/Credit Bond, QM US Aggregate Bond Index, US Long Duration Credit, and US Long Duration Government/Credit Bond Strategies. He also co-manages the US Treasury Intermediate-Term Bond Index, US Treasury Long-Term Bond Index, US Inflation Protected Bond, US Short-Term Inflation Bond Index, and US Short-Term Inflation Focused Bond Strategies. He is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the QM U.S. Bond Index Fund and the Institutional Long Duration Credit Fund. He also is a member of the Fixed Income Steering Committee.

Christoph Krey is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, specializing in Global Client Service & Solutions with over 19 years of experience in financial services. He oversees global asset manager relationships across all products and services within the Securities Services department. His primary responsibilities include ensuring client satisfaction with JPMorgan Chase as a trusted strategic partner, driving continuous improvement, consulting on industry standards versus bespoke methods, and providing scalable, cost-effective solutions. Christoph has managed teams in Operations, Technology, Product, and Client Service. Before joining JPMorgan Chase, he worked at Brown Brothers Harriman.

In addition to his finance career, Christoph has extensive experience in music performance, having participated in over 1,500 events worldwide. He has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Imagine Dragons, Counting Crows, Alabama, The Wallflowers, and Talib Kweli. Currently, he is the singer/songwriter for the Brooklyn-based band MYAI. MYAI’s creative process uniquely blends 75% Art Intelligence and 25% Artificial Intelligence, offering a distinctive experience for listeners.

Christoph's educational background includes studies at Tulane’s Freeman School of Business, Babson College, Wellesley College, and Eckerd College. He maintains an active work-life balance, enjoying family time, golf, tennis, traveling, and winter activities.

Stefano Pasquali is Managing Director and Head of the Investment AI Team at BlackRock, leading the integration of AI and Machine Learning (ML) into investment, liquidity, and trading analytics. With over 20 years in quantitative finance, Stefano’s focus is on leveraging AI to enhance investment efficiency, transparency, and innovation. His team collaborates with BlackRock's investment units and technology platform, Aladdin.

The team specializes in liquidity and trading analytics, market anomaly detection, NLP, and AI-empowered models using LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). They also develop tools for sentiment analysis and Explainable AI (XAI).

Previously, Stefano was Global Head of Liquidity Research at Bloomberg LP and held senior roles in European banks and asset management firms. He actively contributes to the finance and tech community through conferences and academic work, lecturing at Rutgers and Columbia Universities. Before his career in finance, Stefano was a researcher in Theoretical and Computational Physics.

Jerry is a Senior Manager at ICE Data Services. His career in the financial services industry began more than 25 years ago, when he first worked at Merril Lynch and then at the Bank of New York (BNY). Over his 12 years at BNY, he held a variety of different positions in the operations space including Vice President of Pricing and Security Master data, managing a team of 40+ specialists.

Jerry joined ICE Data Services (formerly Interactive Data) in 2015 as a Reference Data Sales Specialist. Throughout his tenure at ICE, his role has expanded to include managing the Sales Specialists as well as Director of the Field East sales team. In Jerry’s current role as a member of the ICE Connect Implementation Team, he and his colleagues work with sales to identify opportunities to grow and support the Fixed Income Data Services business via the ICE Connect platform.

Ty Siam is the Director of Football Data and Innovation for the New York Football Giants. He oversees the data analytics, software development, and technology integration efforts for the team's Football Operation. This is his 9th season with the Giants after working for 3 years with Deloitte Consulting as a health care consultant.

He holds an MHA in Health Care Administration (2013) and a BS in Policy Analysis and Management (2011) from Cornell University where he was also a four-year member of the varsity Football Team.