Lee Olesky Email Address

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Tradeweb Markets is a leading global marketplace for electronic fixed income

Lee Olesky is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW). He retired as CEO of Tradeweb Markets in December 2022 after over 25 years in leadership. Since co-founding Tradeweb in 1996, Olesky has been a central figure in the evolution of electronic trading globally. From its start trading U.S. treasuries in the early days of the Internet, Tradeweb has grown to become a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. In all, Olesky has led Tradeweb from an early-stage startup with $8 million in financing to becoming one of the most successful IPOs of 2019, surpassing $20 billion in market capitalization in 2021. Olesky left his role as Chairman of the Board at Tradeweb in 1999 to found BrokerTec, another electronic trading platform which was sold in 2002. Immediately after Olesky returned to Tradeweb as President in 2002. Prior to BrokerTec he was Chief Operating Officer for the Fixed Income division at Credit Suisse First Boston. Previously a member of the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) and the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC), Olesky currently serves as chairman of the Board of Tradeweb, a trustee on the Board of Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and Credit Benchmark, a provider of consensus credit risk analytics. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of BritishAmerican Business and a member of the Leadership Council of Habitat for Humanity New York City. Olesky earned a bachelor of arts in history from Tulane University and a juris doctorate from George Washington University.