Rita Martins

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.

Enoch George is a Director at Datapoints with over four years of experience in analytics, business consulting, and leading global data teams to deliver complex data initiatives and drive data-driven decision-making.

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.

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.