Ralph Achkar

Ralph Achkar is responsible for the global capital markets strategic alliances. He joined Colt in 2011 through the acquisition of the low latency market data specialist MarketPrizm. He is a regular media commentator on topics related to the capital markets sector and regularly presents at key industry events. Before joining MarketPrizm, Ralph worked at Turquoise as the co-head of sales. Ralph served as a vice president at Citigroup in London, where he spent five years covering financial institutions and infrastructures, with assignments in Frankfurt and Moscow. He worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Motorola in Chicago before joining the Capital Markets sector. Ralph holds a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from INSEAD. He lives in Madrid.