Jonix

Leadership

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Marcus Avery

Chief Executive Officer

Marcus co-founded Jonix after a decade of building electronic trading desks at two top-tier investment banks. He holds an MBA from London Business School and oversees company strategy, fundraising, and key client relationships. Under his leadership, Jonix has grown revenue at a 90% compound annual rate for three consecutive years.

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Dr. Lin Zhao

Chief Technology Officer

Lin leads all platform engineering and R&D. Before Jonix, she spent eight years at a leading high-frequency trading firm where she designed the core matching engine that processed over 10 billion messages daily. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, specializing in low-latency distributed systems.

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James Okafor

Head of Engineering

James manages the day-to-day execution of Jonix’s engineering organization across London and Singapore. A former principal engineer at a major cloud provider, he is passionate about developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and building teams that ship reliably at scale.

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Sofia Eriksson

VP of Product

Sofia translates client needs into product strategy and roadmap. She previously led product at a Nordic fintech unicorn and brings deep domain expertise in derivatives trading workflows. She holds a degree in Financial Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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Daniel Rourke

Head of Quantitative Research

Daniel leads the quant research team that develops the statistical models powering Jonix’s adaptive algorithms and analytics products. He spent six years on the buy side as a portfolio manager and has published peer-reviewed work on market microstructure and optimal execution.