Ishaan Acharya
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, MEMX
Ishaan Acharya is Chief Financial Officer at MEMX, a next-generation, technology-driven stock exchange. He leads the firm’s finance organization with responsibility for accounting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, tax, and long-term strategic financial planning, and plays a key role in supporting MEMX’s growth, capital strategy, and market innovation initiatives.
Prior to joining MEMX, Ishaan spent seven years at Hudson River Trading as Head of Financial Strategy, where he built and led the firm’s global financial strategy and treasury functions. In this role, he oversaw capital management, liquidity planning, and strategic investments during a period of significant expansion for one of the world’s leading quantitative trading firms. Earlier in his career, Ishaan advised financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions as part of J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking division, and held investment management roles at Goldman Sachs in both New York and London, focused on asset allocation and portfolio strategy.
Ishaan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.