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Beacon’s COO, Alla Liberman, Wins COO of the Year

Beacon Platform is pleased to announce that its Chief Operating Officer (COO) Alla Liberman, has been selected as COO of the Year by Markets Media’s Annual Women in Finance (WIF) Awards. 

Markets Media Group recently announced its 8th Annual Women in Finance (WIF) Awards, honoring women in the finance industry across multiple categories. As Markets Media said, “The U.S. WIF program recognized the most talented and accomplished women across the capital markets business: buy-side and sell-side trading desks, institutional investors, wealth managers, securities exchanges, technology providers, corporate finance, venture capital firms, and fintech start-ups.”

“I am honored to receive this award among so many inspiring and talented women across a wide spectrum of the capital markets, especially fintech start-ups,” said Alla Liberman.  

In Alla’s tenure at Beacon, she has utilized her 20+ years of finance experience driving business growth with her data-driven approach to strategy, development, process optimization, and prioritization to help Beacon build on its strong foundation. As COO, Alla continues to drive Beacon’s strategy across all business units, assure scalability of operations, and oversee Product Management, Strategy & Operations Business Partners, Legal, Compliance, and People teams.

“On behalf of Beacon, we congratulate Alla on this honor. Alla’s leadership at Beacon has been instrumental to our growth. As COO, her extensive financial services experience, coupled with her strategy and operational contributions, are helping us to scale and support our company and platform, enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of the financial services industry,” said Kirat Singh, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beacon. 

Read this list of this year’s WIF award winners here.

About Markets Media

Markets Media Group was founded in 2007 with one mission: to be the pre-eminent provider of news and information about trading and technology in capital markets. The coverage remit spans equities, fixed income, and FX, and covers buy-side investment managers, sell-side broker-dealers, exchanges, trading platforms, technology providers, and regulators.

The Markets Choice Awards debuted in 2013, and the awards event has expanded to a 300-person annual gala recognizing excellence at the company and individual level in a host of categories. MMG expanded its awards franchise in 2016 with its Women in Finance awards, which within a few short years grew to be larger than the Markets Choice Awards.

About Beacon Platform

Beacon Platform ushers in the future of financial markets with secure and scalable quant technology, elastic cloud infrastructure, and front-office applications. Its unique integrated development environment and web application framework make developing fintech applications faster and accessible to clients beyond the largest investment banks. Bringing decades of collective experience developing trading and risk management systems for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs, Beacon Platform offers its clients the robustness of these powerful tools with an unprecedented new layer of flexibility and security. To learn more about Beacon’s next-generation platform for enterprise-scale analytics, trading, and risk management, visit at www.beacon.io.