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Darko Hajdukovic is Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), where he is responsible for market engagement, commercial opportunities, and business development of LSEG's digital assets, and oversees delivery of the digital market infrastructure. He holds a doctorate and is referred to in speaker materials as Dr. Darko Hajdukovic.

Hajdukovic joined LSEG in 2007 with responsibility for the fixed income business. He subsequently held leadership roles in product and policy solutions across all asset classes, launching new markets and product solutions across equity, fixed income, and investment funds. He has over 20 years of experience in capital markets, covering product design, delivery, deployment, regulatory change, and development. Prior to joining LSEG, he worked as an independent consultant specialising in financial regulation and regulatory economics. Hajdukovic holds a Doctorate in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is a member of the Royal Economic Society. He speaks English, Russian, Serbo-Croat, and Italian.

Krishna Omkar is Head of Global Sponsors and Institutional Investors at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), sitting within the company's digital and securities markets team. In this role, he oversees LSEG's relationships with private capital investors. He reports to Darko Hajdukovic, head of new and private markets and deputy head of digital and securities markets. Omkar joined LSEG's digital assets business in 2024, with his appointment following his work at the Financial Conduct Authority on capital market reforms introduced to allow a wider range of companies to issue shares on UK exchanges, with the goal of improving competitiveness and encouraging firms to IPO in the UK.

Prior to LSEG, Omkar spent more than a year and a half at the FCA working on capital market reforms. Before that, he spent more than four years at King & Spalding, most recently as a senior associate. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at Slaughter and May for more than five years. He began his career as a legal secondee at Moody's Corporation, where he advised on governance and compliance matters.

Rita Martins is Head of Ecosystem and Partnerships, Digital Markets Infrastructure, Digital Assets at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), a position she has held since September 2025. In this role she leads ecosystem and partnerships activity within LSEG's Digital Markets Infrastructure division, focused on digital assets.

Martins is the author of "Web3 in Financial Services," published by Kogan Page and available through Amazon and bookstores worldwide. She also publishes the Web3 Crossroads weekly newsletter on Substack. She serves as an Advisory Board Member at KIMA, a DeFi firm, and provides advisory support to startups operating at the intersection of DeFi, blockchain, digital assets, and finance. She is a Board Member in the FinTech stream at Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates, a position she has held since September 2020. Prior to joining LSEG, Martins was Global Head of FinTech Partnerships at HSBC, where she focused on incubating and accelerating disruptive technologies in the FinTech, blockchain, and digital assets space. Earlier in her career she held strategy and digital transformation roles at Accenture and Ernst & Young, leading large-scale digital transformation projects. Her total professional experience spans approximately 15 years. No educational background is referenced in the available source material.

Rod Elliott is Head of Digital Asset Solutions at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), a position he has held since November 2024, based in London.

Prior to joining LSEG, Elliott spent over five years at Westpac in Sydney as Head of Emerging Technology FinTech Partnerships, where he executed a portfolio of more than 15 fintech ventures, new digital propositions, proofs of concept, pilots and other innovation initiatives, and led technical due diligence for equity investments across a portfolio of 40 or more fintechs at Series A and beyond. He also established Westpac Co.lab, a fintech collaboration accelerator situated in the Sydney Startup Hub, in 2020, and held strategy roles in Westpac's Business Bank and Institutional Bank. He joined Westpac in 2008. Earlier in his career, Elliott worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers across Sydney, New York and Tokyo. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Surf Life Saving Services Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Surf Life Saving NSW, from January 2021 to February 2025.