Prakash Neelakantan
Vice President of the Financial Services Division
Headstrong
At Headstrong, Prakash is the Vice President of the Financial Services Division. Currently, Prakash’s team is concentrating almost exclusively on expanding Headstrong’s practices in the electronic trading space. He is responsible for the vision Headstrong has for where its clients in this space will be in the next few years and is spearheading a campaign to position Headstrong to be best able to provide these needs for buy-side and sell-side institutions as well as exchanges and dark pools.
Prakash Neelakantan has 21 years of experience in building technology platforms, including 13 years of experience in developing solutions for the capital markets in equity and equity derivatives. He has been involved in working with the business users to define requirements, architecting software solutions and product platforms to address these requirements, and managing development teams. He has built trading systems for stock exchanges, ECNs, buy-side block trading systems, and also developed technology solutions for brokerage firms for equity and equity derivatives trading. Prakash has also designed and built multiple order management platforms and has recently worked on a multi-asset class order management system.