PANEL: BEST ETF EXECUTION

Dan Madden is the Head of ETF Capital Markets for FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds, responsible for building relationships with market makers, authorized participants, and exchanges. 

Dan has 20 years of experience in the ETF industry. He spent his early years working on the American Stock Exchange for Kellogg Capital Group, where he helped develop the electronic market making unit that specialized in some of the first ETF products. In 2009, he joined the ETF trading group that formed at NewEdge, moved as a team to Knight Capital and then, ultimately, to Cantor Fitzgerald. Dan’s responsibilities included the oversight of the electronic ETF LMM business where he developed and refined new trading models, portfolio management functions, and guided technologists in creating systematic methods to support electronic trading. Additionally, Dan built strong relationships with issuers and exchanges to help guide their understanding of products and electronic trading. He most recently worked at RBC, where he was a Director/ETF Trader, focused on international trading.

He received a B.S.B.A in Finance from Villanova and holds a M.S. in Finance from Northeastern University.