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Founder & CEO, VendEx Solutions

Richard F. Clements is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of VendEx Solutions. He is a seasoned bilingual global financial services executive with a proven track record of leveraging deep industry relationships to successfully create and launch new products into complex and sophisticated markets. Prior to VendEx, Richard founded ISN, a capital markets and fintech consulting company. He has also held senior positions at Bloomberg, as Global Head of Market Transparency; and at Thomson Reuters, as Global Head of Valuation Risk and where he was the Global Head of the Credit Crisis Team. Richard was the founder of Global Liquid Markets, a short duration trading system. Richard has been at the forefront of financial technology implementation designing and implementing trading, big data and analytics systems. Richard has a Bachelor’s in English from the University of San Francisco.