BMLL makes significant strategic hires to accelerate growth

Appointments follow BMLL’s acquisition by Nordic Capital and strategic partnership to drive global expansion

London, New York, 21 April 2026: BMLL, the leading independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3, 2 and 1 data and analytics across global equities, ETFs, futures and US equity options, today announced a significant string of strategic appointments to fuel the company’s next phase of growth. The appointments span key commercial and technical functions, including partnerships, sales, revenue operations, finance, engineering and digital marketing, reflecting BMLL’s continued investment in scaling its global operations.

These strategic hires follow the recent acquisition of BMLL by Nordic Capital in October 2025, an investment made to accelerate the company's global expansion.

Paul Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer of BMLL, commented on the team expansion: “When Nordic Capital came on board, we made our intentions very clear, and we continue to deliver on this mission. We continue to invest globally in broadening venue and asset class coverage, increasing our years of history, expanding our team and deepening our partnerships. 

I am delighted that we have secured such exceptional talent and industry expertise to drive our next phase of growth as we accelerate our global footprint. They bring invaluable experience across all our business functions and join us at an incredibly exciting time for the business. We are empowering participants in every corner of the market with the data and analytics they need to make sense of ever-changing liquidity dynamics. 

What’s more, AI continues to fuel demand for the highest quality content that allows our clients and partners to expand their businesses with increased innovation. The race for insights is on, and BMLL is proving itself to be a valuable partner for our clients by delivering efficiencies and enabling faster innovation” 

To drive this commercial and technical expansion, BMLL has welcomed the following senior hires:

  • Deyan Kolev, Head of Corporate Development & Partnerships. Deyan will join the executive management team of BMLL, reporting to Paul Humphrey, and brings extensive experience in corporate strategy and development from previous roles at Tradeweb, Informa, Euronext and NYSE.

BMLL  has also made significant hires in its Go-to-Market team:

  • Mo Badlani, Senior Sales Director, Hedge Funds, US. He joins from Lightkeeper and brings extensive experience in both the buy and sell sides, working closely with hedge funds and asset managers, with previous roles at Eze Software, Enfusion, Société Générale and UBS.
  • Nick Haydon, Senior Sales Director, Enterprise. He has deep expertise in sales, account management and business development from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), FIS and Thomson Reuters.
  • Mariel Solomon, Head of Revenue Operations. She previously held senior business operations roles at LogicMonitor and Moody’s Analytics.

Also joining the team are: 

  • Theo Lane, Head of Digital Marketing
  • Paolo Ferri, Financial Controller 
  • Ryan Henzell-Hill, Data Platform Engineer
  • Robert Anderson, C++ Developer

These appointments follow the recent addition of Karen King as Head of Sales, APAC, and Kevin Barrett as Senior Sales Director, Listed Derivatives, US. 

Further hires across research, product and sales are planned for Q2, as BMLL continues to scale its capabilities. 

 

About BMLL

BMLL Technologies is the leading, independent provider of harmonised, Level 3, 2 and 1 historical data and analytics to the world’s most sophisticated capital market participants, covering global equities, ETFs, futures and US equity options.

BMLL offers banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, global exchange groups, academic institutions and regulators immediate and flexible access to the most granular Level 3, 2 and 1 T+1 order book data and advanced pre and post-trade analytics. BMLL gives users the ability to understand market behaviour, accelerate research, optimise trading strategies and generate alpha more predictably.

Founded in 2014 in the machine learning laboratories of the University of Cambridge, the platform enables researchers and quants across global financial services firms to apply complex statistical techniques to BMLL’s unique big-data sets with applications such as market impact, pre and post trade analytics, order book simulation and compliance. Users no longer need to buy, curate and harmonise data. With BMLL, they gain cost-effective, instant access to a cloud-native Data Science environment via a single web portal, with a long history of the most granular, full order book data across global equities, US equity options, futures and ETFs for back-testing and simulation, delivered directly into their workflows.

In October 2025, Nordic Capital acquired BMLL. The investment was made in close partnership with the management team of BMLL and minority shareholder Optiver, marking a joint commitment to accelerate the company’s next phase of growth. Before this, BMLL secured $21 million strategic investment in October 2024, led by Optiver; $26 million Series B investment in 2022/2023; and $36 million in Series A and seed funding rounds.

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