Advisory Board

Aniket Ullal heads CFRA’s ETF data and analytics business. He has worked in the ETF industry since early in its development. Ullal founded First Bridge, one of the industry’s leading ETF data sets that was acquired by CFRA in 2019. Previously, he was the product head for U.S. index products at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Paglia is State Street Global Advisors' executive vice president and chief business officer, responsible for developing a longer-term growth strategy for its major businesses across global ETFs, index, cash and defined contribution and increasing the firm’s overall competitive positioning and delivery of investment exposures and tailored solutions for its clients. Before starting this position in 2024, she had lead Invesco's ETF business, starting at the company in 2010.

Ms. Paglia joined Invesco in 2010. Prior to her current role, she served as head of legal for Invesco’s US ETFs and was team leader for and provided legal support to Invesco’s Unit Investment Trust business for nine years and has worked with various teams, market participants, and external index partners. Before joining Invesco, Ms. Paglia was a partner in the investment management group at K&L Gates LLP and served as fund counsel and counsel to the independent directors for a number of mutual funds and ETFs. Prior to K&L Gates LLP, she was in-house counsel at Barclays Global Investors in London, where she contributed to the European expansion and cross-listings of the iShares ETFs. Ms. Paglia has provided thought leadership to the ETF industry since 2000 and has worked toward ETF innovation in both Europe and the US.

Ms. Paglia earned a JD from L.U.I.S.S. Law School in Rome, a law school certificate from Kingston University School of Law in London, and an LLM from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. She is admitted to practice law in Illinois and New York.

Deborah Fuhr has served as global head of ETF research and implementation strategy and as a managing director at BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors from 2008 – 2011. She also worked as a managing director and head of the investment strategy team at Morgan Stanley in London from 1997 – 2008, and as an associate at Greenwich Associates.

Deborah Fuhr is a founder and board member of Women in ETFs “WE” the first women’s group for the ETF industry. Founded in January 2014, WE is a non-profit organization that brings together over 4,500 members, including women and men, in chapters in major financial centres around the world to CONNECT, SUPPORT and INSPIRE. WE achieves this by organizing events at our chapters globally that support our goals of education, networking, philanthropy and idea sharing across the industry and beyond. For more information, visit: www.womeninetfs.com

Douglas Yones is currently the Head of Exchange Traded Products at the New York Stock Exchange, where he oversees the listings and operations teams responsible for the ETP, Closed End Funds and SPAC businesses.

Prior to joining the NYSE, Douglas spent 17 years at The Vanguard Group, most recently as the Head of Domestic Equity Indexing and ETF Product Management. From 2007 through 2015, Douglas worked on the development, launch, and distribution of numerous ETFs in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. He also spent a number of years in Hong Kong, responsible for the development and launch of the regional ETF business for Vanguard in Asia.

Douglas holds the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation with the American College, an M.B.A from Villanova University, his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and is a registered Options and General Securities Principal with FINRA.

Giang Bui is Head of U.S. Equities & Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) at Nasdaq. In this role, she is responsible for developing and executing the growth and strategic vision of Nasdaq’s ETP business, the three equities exchanges operated by Nasdaq - The Nasdaq Stock Market, Nasdaq BX, and Nasdaq PSX, and the Nasdaq over-the-counter Trade Reporting Facility.
 

Prior to joining Nasdaq, she was a Director of Listings at Cboe Global Markets, where she was focused on ETF business development, liquidity programs, and strategic initiatives. Before her role at Cboe, Giang played a crucial role in developing and marketing new indexes at the New York Stock Exchange. She began her career as a business analyst for NYSE’s global index and exchange-traded products group.

Hany Rashwan is a serial entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum. He previously founded social commerce company, Ribbon, and enterprise fintech company, Payout. 21.co is the world's leader in providing access to crypto through simple and easy to use products, and parent company of 21Shares. Hany was born and raised in Egypt and the United States and attended Columbia University.

Matt Hougan has previously served as CEO at Inside ETFs, Managing Director of Global Finance at Informa. Before that, CEO of ETF.com. Co-authored the CFA Institute's monograph on ETFs.

Ric Edelman is one of the most influential people in the financial planning and investment management profession, according to Investment Advisor, RIABiz and InvestmentNews. He was ranked three times as the nation’s No. 1 Independent Financial Advisor by Barron’s, is in two industry Halls of Fame and received the IARFC’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He also holds two patents for financial product innovation.

Edelman is the industry’s top financial educator. He is #1 New York Times best selling author of 12 books on personal finance, including the newest, The Truth About Crypto, an Amazon bestseller. He hosts The Truth About Your Future podcast and produces Public Television specials. He taught personal finance at Georgetown University for nine years and is Distinguished Lecturer at Rowan University. He and his wife Jean live in Northern Virginia.