Md Azam

Md Azam is the founder of finEngine and holds the position of President and CTO. He has over 20 years’ experience in software engineering and data management. His in-depth knowledge includes financial analytics, global equities, institutional trading systems, compliance, surveillance, and order processing. He has worked with a broad array of financial industry clients, providing actionable data analysis to optimize business goals, and provide complete transparency to the order routing and execution process. Prior to founding finEngine in 2004, Azam spent 7 years at Knight Trading Group where he developed their analytics infrastructure as global head of data management.

He served as a member of the Global Strategy Committee and the IT Management Committee. Some of his accomplishments at Knight included the design and management of several key projects including: complete automated compliance and surveillance system, one of the first of its kind, a best execution system, which allowed Knight to provide individualized benchmark analytics to clients, an intranet system to disseminate reporting and analysis to traders, development of the historical market data infrastructure covering hardware, software, and database technology.

Azam was instrumental in designing the options and futures OMS data structure including the security master. This broad experience gave him the vision and desire to develop analytical software for a new generation of traders through the formation of finEngine. Azam has an MBA and MS in Computer Science from Western Michigan University.