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Adrian Crockett Joins OpenFin as Chief Product Officer

OpenFin - Adrian CrockettOpenFin, the New York based fintech firm revealed the addition of new executive to its senior level leadership team. As per announcement from the firm, it has onboarded Mr. Adrian Crockett to serve as its new Chief Product Officer. In his new role as CPO, Mr. Crockett will be in charge of leading the firm’s product development across all its offerings with particular focus on building the app infrastructure of their flagship product – the Operating system of finance. The incoming executive will be serving from the firm’s head office located in New York and report directly to Chief Executive Officer Mazy Dar. Mr. Crockett is a veteran with more than two decades of experience in financial services industry and is renowned for his expertise in building innovative products and leading digital transformation in capital markets. Before taking up his current role at OpenFin, Adrian spent nearly 8 years serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Pellucid Analytics, a firm he established in January of 2012.

Pellucid Analytics was an integrated platform which streamlined the creation of investment banking pitch books via various functionalities such as customizable content libraries and advanced data visualizations. He resigned from his role as CEO of the firm and cut ties with the organization when it was acquired by a leading market data vendor. Before starting up his own venture, he had been serving in the role of Managing Director and Head of Strategic advisory group at multinational banking giants Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch. He began his career as an Analyst for fund management department at Bankers Trust Company in Sydney Australia and served as a consultant for tax and legal advisory at another Australian firm Arthur Andersen & Co post which he joined Deutsche bank where he served in role of Director for Sovereign debt management advisory unit and head of capital structure and risk management advisory unit for EMEA & Asian regions.

Commenting on his new role at the firm, Mr. Crockett said, “I am incredibly excited to join a firm that has seen so much success and essentially wrote the book on modernizing the financial desktop. Even more thrilling is the opportunity to play a leading role as the company enters its next phase and works to enable digital transformation across the financial services industry”.

Speaking about Adrian’s addition to the team, CEO Mazy Dar said, “Adrian was the ideal candidate for us with an exceptional understanding of enabling digital transformation at a macro level as well as deep expertise in end-user ergonomics and application design at a micro level. We could not be more excited to have him leading our product development”.

About the firm:

OpenFin is a US based Fintech firm known for its specialized operating system targeting financial services industry. The operating system facilitates rapid and secure deployment while allowing native experience and desktop interoperability making it a preferred choice for both latest innovative fintech service provider and industry icons. A powerful ecosystem of over 1200 applications now run on OpenFin and is used by more than 1000 desktops from nearly 1500 buy-side and sell-side firms.