BMLL appoints Brad Hunt as Chairman of the Board to accelerate global growth following Nordic Capital acquisition

BMLL appoints Brad Hunt as Chairman of the Board to accelerate global growth following Nordic Capital acquisition

London / New York, 29 July 2026:  BMLL, the independent provider of harmonised, continually engineered historical Level 3, 2 and 1 data and analytics for Capital Markets, today announced the appointment of Brad Hunt as Chairman of the Board. 

With a 30-year track record of developing and transforming financial data businesses. Hunt most recently served as CEO of Rimes Technologies, where he led their business expansion from benchmark data management into enterprise data management and investment solutions, and their successful sale in 2024. Prior to this, he ran strategy and business development for Global Markets at Bank of New York Mellon, following senior strategic roles at IHS Markit and Goldman Sachs International in London.

Hunt succeeds Lee Hodgkinson, who will remain on the board as an independent Non-Executive Director (NED). Hodgkinson, currently Group Chief Strategy Officer at Saudi Tadawul Group, previously served as CEO of Euronext London and Head of Markets and Global Sales, and CEO of global derivatives trading firm OSTC.

Hunt joins existing board directors, including recently appointed US-based independent NED, Spiros Giannaros. Spiros brings three decades of fintech and scaling expertise. He currently serves as CEO of Gresham Technologies, and previously as CEO and President of Charles River Development, Executive Vice President at State Street Bank, and Partner at IHS Markit.

Additional board directors include Paul Humphrey, CEO, BMLL; Nigel Medhurst, CFO and COO, BMLL; David Samuelson, Partner, Nordic Capital, and Dan Rosenberg, Managing Director, Nordic Capital; and Optiver representative Hilde Kaemingk (NED), Director at Rambutan Capital.

These appointments follow the recent acquisition of BMLL by Nordic Capital in October 2025. The strengthened board brings enhanced expertise that will accelerate BMLL's expansion and deliver greater value to financial market participants globally.

Paul Humphrey, CEO, BMLL, said: “I am delighted to welcome Brad to BMLL as our new Chairman. When Nordic Capital came on board, we made our intentions very clear, and we continue to deliver on this mission. As we accelerate our global footprint and continue to help market participants make sense of shifting market dynamics, Brad's deep industry expertise will be invaluable as we scale. I also want to thank Lee Hodgkinson for his excellent stewardship as Chairman and his continued dedication to the firm as an independent Non-Executive Director, and welcome Spiros Giannaros as our US-based independent NED, further strengthening our governance.”

Brad Hunt, Chairman of the Board, BMLL, added: "I am incredibly excited to join BMLL at such a pivotal time following the Nordic Capital acquisition. Throughout my career, I have been passionate about solving industry-wide issues of data complexity and cost. BMLL has built an enviable reputation for delivering the industry's highest quality historical data products, allowing institutions to execute complex data strategies cost-effectively. There is a clear, growing appetite among market participants for this depth of insight without the traditional operational overhead. I look forward to working with Paul, the Board, and the Nordic Capital team to scale our presence globally and help our clients leverage unique data, analytics and advanced workflows to truly optimise their investment and trading strategies."

About BMLL

BMLL is the leading independent provider of harmonised, continually engineered Level 3, 2 and 1 historical market data and analytics, serving banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges, regulators and academic institutions. 

BMLL’s compute-ready platform provides access to T+1 order book data and advanced pre- and post-trade analytics across global equities, ETFs, futures, options and prediction markets, giving users the ability to understand market behaviour, accelerate quantitative research, optimise AI and trading strategies, and generate alpha more predictably. 

For quantitative researchers and data scientists, BMLL removes the complexity of sourcing, cleaning and harmonising historical market data, enabling them to focus on developing insights rather than engineering data pipelines. They gain immediate, cost-effective access to the industry's most comprehensive historical order book data and analytics in a cloud-native Data Science environment to analyse market structure and impact, optimise execution, back-test strategies and build AI applications on BMLL’s high-fidelity data. 

In October 2025, Nordic Capital acquired BMLL to accelerate the company's next phase of growth. Prior to that, BMLL secured $83 million in seed, Series A and B rounds from leading strategic investors including Optiver.  The company was founded in 2014 in the machine learning laboratories of the University of Cambridge. 

For more information, please explore our website and follow us on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.