Adena Friedman

Adena Friedman

Adena Friedman at the US Department of the Treasury Women in Finance Symposium, July 12, 2011.
Born Adena Robinson Testa
1969 (age 4647)
Nationality United States
Education B.A. Williams College
M.B.A. Vanderbilt University
Occupation CEO of NASDAQ
Spouse(s) Michael Friedman
Children 2
Parent(s) Adena W. Testa
Michael D. Testa

Adena T. Friedman (born 1969) currently serves as President of Global Capital Access, Technology & Insights for Nasdaq.[1] She was formerly the managing director and CFO of The Carlyle Group. In May 2014, it was announced that Friedman would return to NASDAQ OMX as the president of global corporate and information technology solutions.[2] In November 2016, she was named the CEO of NASDAQ.[3]

Biography

Born Adena Robinson Testa and raised in metropolitan Baltimore, she is the daughter of Michael D. Testa, a managing director at T. Rowe Price, and Adena W. Testa, an attorney in the Baltimore law firm of Stewart, Plant & Blumenthal.[4] She attended Roland Park Country School. She earned a BA in political science from Williams College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.[4]

As of 2014, she is listed as the 69th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[5]

Personal life

In 1993, she married Michael Cameron Friedman in a Presbyterian ceremony in Hanover, New Hampshire.[4] They have two sons.[6]

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