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Tom Callahan is the Chief Executive Officer and Manager of the board of managers of Nasdaq Private Market. Tom has 30 years of leadership experience within the financial services industry. Prior to Nasdaq Private Market, he served as the Head of Global Cash Management and a member of the Global Operating Committee at BlackRock, where he spent nearly nine years. In his role with BlackRock, Tom led the transformation of the firm’s global cash management platform, a $700 billion business focused on delivering liquidity and balance sheet solutions to many of the world’s largest public and private corporations. During his tenure, assets under management in his division grew by over $500 billion.

Previously, Tom served as the Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Liffe U.S., the U.S. futures exchange of NYSE Euronext, where he spent five years. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 15 years at Merrill Lynch, where he held various leadership positions in both New York and London. Tom earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

James Brooks is the Chief Strategy Officer at Nasdaq Private Market. He has more than 25 years of experience growing businesses and developing commercial strategies to bring innovative, disruptive products to market. Throughout his career, James has partnered closely with customers and cross-functional teams—spanning technology, operations, compliance, and product—to design and continuously enhance market-leading solutions. Prior to joining NPM, he served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Product Officer at Forge Global, where he focused on product innovation, transparency, and removing barriers to investing in private companies. Before that, James was Chief Operating Officer of ICE Data Services, where he led efforts to expand recurring revenue by delivering pricing, analytics, index, and reference data solutions supporting investment, trading, and risk management across global asset classes. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at NYSE/ICE, overseeing multiple businesses including the NYSE and ICE futures data businesses, the reference data business, and the ICE Global Network. James also served as Head of Equities at The NASDAQ Stock Market and began his career at the Law and Economics Consulting Group. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Mike Buono is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Shares trading at Nasdaq Private Market. Prior to NPM, Mike spent 5+ years at EquityZen where he helped build the institutional trading desk. Mike started his career as an analyst at UBS and holds a BS in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University.

Rotem David is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Nasdaq Private Market (NPM). Rotem leads NPM’s product and technology divisions worldwide. He is responsible for the company’s product strategy and implementation, overseeing technology infrastructure, engineering, information security and development teams. He has spent more than 10 years building out NPM’s portfolio of products which offer liquidity across various transaction types. Prior to NPM, Rotem held lead engineering roles at SecondMarket and Nasdaq, Inc.

Earlier in his career, Rotem served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a Commander in a Search and Rescue unit. He earned his BS in computer science from Columbia University.