smartTrade Names Ludovic Blanquet as New Chief Product and Strategic Planning Officer

smartTrade Technologies,  a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announced yesterday that it has appointed Ludovic Blanquet as its new Chief Product and Strategic Planning Officer. 

In his new role, Ludovic will be responsible for designing and delivering on the future product roadmap on the basis of working with smartTrade’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and liquidity providers. Based in London, Ludovic will lead a team of strategy and product managers and report to David Vincent, smartTrade CEO.

​According to his Linkedln profile, Ludovic joins from Hg, where he spent 7 months. Prior to this, his most recent role at Finastra was the Global Head of Product Strategy & Portfolio. Ludovic began his career in Reuters in 2000, where he served as Business Development Manager, Asia. 

​During his career, which spans for nearly two decades, he was also the Regional Director, APAC of SmartStream Technologies.

Commenting on the appointment, David Vincent said, “Drawing on his business leadership experience, Ludovic will provide fresh insights to our product priorities as we help our clients and the wider industry to further modernise capital markets technology. In this new era, staying ahead of the market structure and technology evolution is more important than ever to help market participants seeking higher returns.”