Arminta Saladziene Vice President, Head of Securities Services Global Fixed Income, Commodities and Clearing

As Vice President of Securities Services at Nasdaq, Arminta is leading a business unit comprised of nine regulated financial entities: stock exchanges, central securities depositories and an investment firm based in , , , and , which provide a wide range of exchange and post trade services to the Nordic and Baltic clients. The Securities Services team is also responsible for driving the company’s business development and strategic initiatives in the post-trade space.

In this capacity, Arminta chairs the Boards of Directors or Supervisory Councils of Broker Services AB, Nasdaq , Nasdaq , Nasdaq , as well as the Latvian and Lithuanian CSDs, which together with the Estonian CSD will be merged into Nasdaq CSD. In addition, Arminta acts as the General Manager for the Nasdaq’s Technology and Business Support Competence center located in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Arminta has spent 20 years with the national stock exchange in Lithuania and later on OMX and Nasdaq in various roles spanning marketing, market data, project management, product development and general management. During 2007-2017, she acted as President of Nasdaq Vilnius and during 2012 - 2017 as VP, Head of Baltic Markets.

Arminta holds Masters in International Business from the Vilnius University and an Executive MBA from the Baltic Management Institute (joint program of HEC School of Management, Business School, Louvain School of Management, Norwegian School of Economics and Vytautas Magnus University).

Currently, a member of the Board of the Lithuanian Financial Markets Institute, a member of the Advisory Board of the Baltic Development Forum, a member of the Board of Trustees at the Vilnius University Endowment. Arminta was one of the initiators and the first Chairman of the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance set up to advance business ethics, transparency and sound governance among Baltic companies. For her work in the field of corporate governance, she received the Award 2009 and was named the Rising Star of Corporate Governance 2011 by The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. In 2010, Arminta was inducted to the Business Hall of Fame by Junior Achievement. In 2017, named the SSC Business Center Manager of the Year in Central and Eastern Europe.