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Alex Gerko

Alex Gerko

Alex is the founder of XTX Markets, a leading algorithmic trading firm providing $300bn of daily liquidity in the equity, foreign exchange, fixed income, commodity and crypto markets. He is also one of the UK’s most active philanthropists, donating to a wide range of social mobility, education and environment charities. Since 2020, this has included multi-million pound support for maths education, including launching Maths Education for Social Mobility and Excellence (MESME) and bringing the Russian ‘maths circles’ programme to the UK.

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