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Billy Hult

Billy Hult is Chief Executive Officer of Tradeweb Markets (NASDAQ: TW) and a member of the Board. A driving force in leveraging technology to eliminate silos and enhance transparency in financial markets, Hult has spent more than two decades shaping Tradeweb’s evolution from a single- product platform for U.S. Treasuries into a diversified, multi-asset marketplace spanning credit, swaps, mortgages, ETFs and government bonds across geographies. He recognized early the value of connectivity across client sectors, driving the launch of the company’s wholesale trading platform in 2009 and its corporate treasury offering in 2024. Hult became CEO in 2023 after serving 15 years as President — a tenure that included playing a key role in Tradeweb’s landmark IPO in 2019. As CEO, he has led Tradeweb through a period of substantial strategic expansion, broadening its product capabilities and geographic reach through the acquisitions of Yieldbroker, r8fin and ICD. Under his leadership, the company facilitated more than $2.6 trillion in average daily trading volume and generated over $2 billion in annual revenue in 2025. An early champion of digital markets, Hult has made strategic investments and forged Tradeweb partnerships across blockchain, prediction markets, institutional crypto and digital assets. He has led the company’s deployment of artificial intelligence across execution, data, analytics and operations. Hult joined Tradeweb in 2000 after beginning his career at Société Générale. He holds a B.A. from Denison University. A fifth-generation New Yorker, he serves on the boards of the Tenement Museum and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.
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Billy Hult is chief executive officer of Tradeweb Markets, where he also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He became CEO in 2023 and previously served as the company’s president since 2008.

Hult has played a pivotal role in Tradeweb’s evolution as a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. He has led the development of numerous innovations connecting liquidity providers and investors across retail, wholesale and institutional markets.

In 2001, Hult led Tradeweb’s push into mortgage trading, establishing what is now the leading electronic marketplace for TBA (To-Be-Announced) mortgage trading, and in 2009 he oversaw the launch of Dealerweb, the company’s first electronic trading platform for wholesale markets participants. Hult was instrumental in numerous acquisitions including Hilliard Farber (2008), Rafferty Capital Markets (2011), J.J. Kenny Drake (2011), Nasdaq’s former eSpeed platform for electronic bond trading (2021), Yieldbroker in 2023, r8fin and ICD in 2024.

He joined Tradeweb in 2000 from Société Générale.

Hult received a bachelor of arts from Denison University. A native New Yorker, he serves on the board of directors for Boys Hope Girls Hope New York and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.