Rizwan Awan leads the trading businesses of Canada’s premier equity exchanges, Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, and TSX Alpha Exchange.  He also oversees Products and Services across TMX Markets, responsible for innovating, designing, and building market solutions across all asset classes and charting the path for Canadian markets.

Rizwan joined TMX in November 2020, following nearly two decades in client facing capital markets roles at leading financial institutions.  Prior to TMX, he served as Managing Director of Quantitative Execution Services at BMO Capital Markets, heading up trading teams spanning program and electronic trading as well as index and market structure research.

As an active contributor to market structure and policy issues in Canada, Rizwan represents TMX on OSC’s Market Structure Advisory Committee and IIROC’s Market Rules Advisory Committee.  Mr. Awan is also the former Chair of the Canadian Securities Traders Association and Board of Governors of the US Securities Traders Association. He holds a BMath degree in Computer Science from University of Waterloo and is a CFA charterholder.