Buford Scott
Chief Financial Officer
Buford Scott is Chief Financial Officer of Zodia Markets, where he leads the finance function including treasury, funding, financial reporting, financial planning, budgeting, financial control, and product control across all Zodia Markets entities.
Prior to Zodia Markets, Buford acted as financial advisor and CFO to several businesses, and was most recently CFO of
Katana Labs, a fintech that was a spinoff of ING Bank. Buford’s 30+ years of financial services experience began in derivatives trading at top-tier banks, including JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs. Buford spent 10 years as Managing Director at Standard Chartered Bank, majority shareholder of Zodia Markets, and also served on the board of the Standard Chartered Bank Pension Fund.
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