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Experienced Commercial and Business Executive to lead the company’s growth in the APAC region
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pico, a leading global provider of mission-critical technology services, software, data and analytics to the financial markets community, has appointed Bo Zhou, Ph.D., to lead APAC to deliver the oversee continued growth of Pico in the region.
Zhou has over 15 years of experience in the financial markets industry, most recently as a Partner and Senior Managing Director at IHS Markit (now S&P Global) where her team was responsible for significant growth across the region, including launches in certain key countries such as China , while managing relationships with senior customers across all APAC markets. Before joining IHS Markit, she held various management positions at Bloomberg, including Company Director and Regional Business Manager for the global fixed income and trading solutions in Hong Kong and New York. Zhou has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and earned a Financial Technology Option certificate from the MIT School of Management.
“As Pico continues to expand globally, we have focused on building our leadership team with the most talented individuals in the industry. Bo’s background in the APAC region, experience growing businesses, and commercial and market expertise will help accelerate Pico’s growth in the APAC market,” said Jarrod Yuster, Chairman, Founder and CEO of Pico. “Markets in Asia and elsewhere continue to mature and Pico is positioned at the center, providing technology, connectivity and data to these burgeoning financial ecosystems. Our clients want the ability to trade from anywhere to anywhere with true global, borderless data and trading access to all liquid electronic markets. We are excited to have Bo join Pico’s leadership team as we continue our strategic expansion in the APAC region.”
As Head of APAC, Zhou will drive Pico’s expansion efforts in Asia Pacific while overseeing all sales, operations and engineering across the region in collaboration with key global executives.
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“Pico continues to expand its global footprint and has expanded into all major APAC markets, including Singapore, Japan, Greater China, South Korea and Australia,” said Zhou. “I am excited about this tremendous opportunity to help Pico’s global customers realize the benefits that APAC’s emerging markets have to offer, in addition to providing APAC customers with global connectivity through Pico’s network.”
As markets become more electronic, there is a need for global access and connectivity to all liquid markets. Pico’s global footprint and scale, combined with operational excellence and market-leading software and analytics, continue to be key competitive advantages. Pico provides instant access to more than 300 trading venues in the equity, derivatives, forex and fixed income markets via PicoNet, Pico’s proprietary low-latency network. PicoNet is a globally expansive and fully redundant network connecting all major financial data centers around the world, including all major public cloud providers. The combination of Pico’s global infrastructure and data services offerings equips customers with a comprehensive suite of innovative solutions to meet their global commerce needs.
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About Pico
Pico is a leading global provider of technology services to the financial markets community. Pico’s technology and services power mission-critical systems for global banks, exchanges, e-commerce firms, quantitative hedge funds and financial technology service providers. Pico offers a best-in-class portfolio of innovative, transparent, low-latency market solutions combined with an agile and expert service delivery model. Instant access to the financial markets is provided via PicoNet™, a global networking platform native to Corvil to generate analytics and telemetry. Clients choose Pico when they want the freedom to move quickly and gain an operational advantage in the fast-paced world of financial markets.
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