Hitesh Mittal

Founder and Chief Executive Officer BestEx Research

Hitesh Mittal is the Founder and CEO of BestEx Research, a financial technology firm and agency broker-dealer specializing in the design of highly sophisticated execution algorithms for equities, futures and FX and helping institutional asset managers, hedge funds, and broker-dealers reduce their transaction costs. BestEx Research's flagship product is its Algorithm Management System (AMS), which provides its clients complete control and transparency over the design, execution, and performance of BestEx Research algorithms. Hitesh has been an active market microstructure researcher and practitioner for over 20 years, utilizing his market structure and systematic trading expertise to reduce the trading costs of institutional investors. Before founding BestEx Research, Hitesh was the Global Head of Trading at AQR Capital, a renowned systematic asset manager supervising over $226 billion in investments. At AQR, Hitesh was responsible for managing trading across all asset classes; he founded AQR's advanced systematic trading group and built the firm’s in-house algorithmic trading and transaction cost analysis platform, automating all FX, futures, and equity trading. Prior to AQR, Hitesh was the Global Head of Algorithmic Trading and Crossing Networks at ITG. Hitesh and his team built ITG's algorithmic products from scratch and established ITG as a leader in the industry. Hitesh has an MBA in Finance from NYU and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from JNV University, India.