Mark Beeston, Illuminate Financial Management

Mark Beeston founded Illuminate, a fintech VC firm, after a 25+
year career in capital markets where he had been both the
consumer of capital markets technologies as well as the
entrepreneur, operator, and funder of capital markets businesses.
Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was the CEO for the Post Trade
Risk and Information business at ICAP (now Nex) where he oversaw
the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. 


Prior to ICAP Mark launched T-Zero (now ICELink) during his time
at Creditex before the company was acquired by ICE in 2008. He
started his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank in derivatives
trading and management, including periods as COO for both the
Global Rates and Global Credit businesses. 


Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE). Mark was listed on the
Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 35 and top 40 Lists,
Financial News Fintech 40 Power List, Institutional Investor
Trade Technology Top 30 and Top 40 Lists, and Derivatives
Intelligence/Derivatives Week Rising Stars.