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Priyanka Jain is Director, Equity and Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group, a position she has held since July 2024. She is based in New York and focuses on CME's equity and crypto currency products, joining at a time when the exchange's cryptocurrency complex was recording significant growth, including record open interest of more than 29,000 bitcoin futures contracts in Q2 2024.

Prior to joining CME Group, Jain spent three years at BGC Partners as Digital Assets Strategy Lead, where she launched BGC's Digital Assets desk, providing high-touch brokerage services for over-the-counter derivatives and block trades in Bitcoin and Ethereum futures contracts listed on CME. Before BGC, she worked in business development at AiX, and as an equity derivatives broker at Square Global Markets and Sigma Broking. She began her broking career at BGC in 2015. Earlier in her career, she worked at marketing and advertising agencies including Ogilvy & Mather and DDB.

Tim McCourt is Senior MD and Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group, leading its equity index, FX, cryptocurrency and alternative product strategies. Before CME (2013) he ran the Americas index and Delta One book at RBS and spent a decade at JPMorgan. BA Boston College, MBA Wharton.