FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that Australia based brokerage services and technology company Openmarkets has hired David Jenkins, as its new Chief Product and Technology Officer.

David Jenkins served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at leading Australia based Retail FX and CFDs broker Pepperstone from 2022-2025. He has also held senior technology and business development roles at Frontier (institutional investors research), TP ICAP’s Liquidnet, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, and Fidessa.

Openmarkets is in process of going public on NASDAQ via a reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Lake Superior Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:LKSPU), at an estimated enterprise value of USD $300 million. Openmarkets provides brokerage services (trade execution, clearing and settlement services), options risk management and equity order management applications, as well as Wealth Management SaaS to financial technology providers, advice professionals including dealer groups, private wealth advisers, stockbrokers, and high-volume traders.

David Jenkins posted the following note on social media regarding his new role at Openmarkets.

Pleased to announce I’ll be joining the Openmarkets Group team as their Chief Product and Technology Officer.

There are few times in a career that you get the chance to take a front row seat while capital markets reinvent themselves. Anyone who reads anything I write, knows that this is a great alignment of passion and purpose.

To Openmarkets clients, I can’t wait to talk to you about how we’re planning to bring new investable products to market. Combining the breadth of the Openmarkets product suite with the best of TradFi and DeFi infrastructure, paving the way for tokenized assets, programmable execution, and AI-driven investment strategies.

The reinvention of investing is here and with a Nasdaq listing in progress, we’re ready to take this forward.