Aman Thind
“Field CTO - Financial Services, Cognition”
- Joined
- Jun 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- JPMorganChaseGlobal Head of Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
- Status
- Current
- Cognition's 'Building in London' post names him a senior London hire: he works with CIOs, CTOs and engineering leaders across the region to put AI agents into production; his hire is part of a UK team build-out press covered as growing more than 200% in six months.Oct 22, 2026
- Announced joining Cognition as Field CTO for Financial Services, writing verbatim: "Spending time programming most of my conscious life, watching code go from something I write, to something I direct, to something that writes itself sparked that curiosity once again."Jul 28, 2026I'm pleased to share I'm joining Cognition as Field CTO for Financial Services. Curiosity has shaped every major decision in my career. It's the reason I've moved between disciplines, institutions and continents, driven simply by the will to learn and grow. Spending time programming most of my conscious life, watching code go from something I write, to something I direct, to something that writes itself sparked that curiosity once again. For a change of that magnitude, there's no better place to learn than working alongside the people leading it. The team is young, sharp, and already fluent in a way of working most of the industry hasn't caught up to yet. I was hoping to learn what being AI native feels like but alongside that they've already taught me swimming, bungee jumping, karaoke and that taco bell at midnight is great for gains. There's a lot of anxious conversation these days about where AI is headed and what it means for the next generation. Spending a few days with them told me they'll be just fine. In my new role, I'll help bring autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector. We're only at the beginning and I'm excited to build this vision alongside people who are actively defining what this next era looks like. If your institution is thinking through how to adopt AI safely and at scale, I'm here.
- Describes his Cognition mandate verbatim: "In my new role, I'll help bring autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector."Jul 28, 2026I'm pleased to share I'm joining Cognition as Field CTO for Financial Services. Curiosity has shaped every major decision in my career. It's the reason I've moved between disciplines, institutions and continents, driven simply by the will to learn and grow. Spending time programming most of my conscious life, watching code go from something I write, to something I direct, to something that writes itself sparked that curiosity once again. For a change of that magnitude, there's no better place to learn than working alongside the people leading it. The team is young, sharp, and already fluent in a way of working most of the industry hasn't caught up to yet. I was hoping to learn what being AI native feels like but alongside that they've already taught me swimming, bungee jumping, karaoke and that taco bell at midnight is great for gains. There's a lot of anxious conversation these days about where AI is headed and what it means for the next generation. Spending a few days with them told me they'll be just fine. In my new role, I'll help bring autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector. We're only at the beginning and I'm excited to build this vision alongside people who are actively defining what this next era looks like. If your institution is thinking through how to adopt AI safely and at scale, I'm here.
- Current role is Field CTO, Financial Services at Cognition.
- Left JPMorganChase, where he was MD and Global Head of Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture (Oct 2025-Jun 2026), after under a year; Evident's Banking Brief framed the move to Cognition as a notable bank-to-AI-vendor jump.Aug 6, 2026
- On the Cognition team, verbatim: "The team is young, sharp, and already fluent in a way of working most of the industry hasn't caught up to yet. I was hoping to learn what being AI native feels like but alongside that they've already taught me swimming, bungee jumping, karaoke and that taco bell at midnight is great for gains."Jul 28, 2026I'm pleased to share I'm joining Cognition as Field CTO for Financial Services. Curiosity has shaped every major decision in my career. It's the reason I've moved between disciplines, institutions and continents, driven simply by the will to learn and grow. Spending time programming most of my conscious life, watching code go from something I write, to something I direct, to something that writes itself sparked that curiosity once again. For a change of that magnitude, there's no better place to learn than working alongside the people leading it. The team is young, sharp, and already fluent in a way of working most of the industry hasn't caught up to yet. I was hoping to learn what being AI native feels like but alongside that they've already taught me swimming, bungee jumping, karaoke and that taco bell at midnight is great for gains. There's a lot of anxious conversation these days about where AI is headed and what it means for the next generation. Spending a few days with them told me they'll be just fine. In my new role, I'll help bring autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector. We're only at the beginning and I'm excited to build this vision alongside people who are actively defining what this next era looks like. If your institution is thinking through how to adopt AI safely and at scale, I'm here.
- Gave the Cognition keynote 'Trust Your Agent Execution Chain' (Agent Execution & Runtime Control track) at Trustwise Genesis 2026, about verifying execution integrity as autonomous coding agents move from reasoning to acting.2026
- Co-founded BestX (May 2016) as CTO, a London fintech for independent best-execution / transaction cost analytics; State Street acquired it in Sep 2018 and he became CTO of GlobalLink in Nov 2019, an earlier case of the build-then-get-acquired path.Sep 2018
- BestX was founded in 2016 by Aman Thind with Pete Eggleston and Oliver Jerome, fellow Morgan Stanley FX alumni; Thind was the technical co-founder (CTO) of the three.2016
- Was CTO of State Street Digital Assets (from Jun 2021) and CTO of State Street Alpha (Mar 2023-Oct 2025), covering Charles River Development, the Alpha Data Platform and Alpha Cloud.Mar 2023
- State Street named him EVP and Global Chief Architect in April 2021, reporting to CIO Brian Franz, to drive technology transformation including digital, crypto and digitally-led capabilities.Apr 28, 2021
- In a 2017 JuliaCon/JuliaHub talk he said, verbatim, "I'm the co-founder and CTO of bestex" and explained BestX built its FX best-execution analytics in Julia on AWS with a kdb+ adapter for real-time market data, after prototyping in another stack.May 24, 2017
Bringing autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector.
I will define and deliver the multi-year Technology Strategy, lead the development of the Enterprise Architecture framework, and advance best practices and technology standards across the firm. I will partner closely with senior leadership and key stakeholders to maximize the impact of our technology investments.
Appointed as CTO for Alpha Platform, which includes Charles River Development (CRD), Alpha Data Platform (ADP) and Alpha Cloud. This is State Street's platform led vision for creating a Front to Back system that allows our clients to manage all their investment products and business lines in one place. I'll continue to run AI/ML, Blockchain and Architecture for the firm and bring those skills to Alpha to help create a market leading product for the industry.
Took additional responsibilities as CTO of the newly created State Street Digital Assets division to help our clients navigate crypto assets and explore usecases of DeFi and Blockchain to help simplify archaic processes slowing down the digital transformation of financial services.
Appointed Global Chief Architect for StateStreet to create and harmonize the overall IT strategy and facilitate its digital transformation using latest technologies to stay ahead in the new tech driven competitive landscape.
Joined State Street GlobalLink after its acquisition of BestX to continue as its CTO. Appointed CTO of entire GlobalLink in Nov 2019 to additionally lead its global technology creating industry leading platforms like FXConnect, Currenex, Fund Connect, TradeNexus.
Co-Founder and CTO for BestX, a fintech startup providing independent trade technology and analytics that enables clients to define, achieve and demonstrate Best Execution. Acquired by StateStreet in Sep 2018.
Core Architect for Matrix, Morgan's multiple award winning e-trading platform. Led multiple technology and strategy teams in Electronic Trading and Realtime Analytics across FX, Equities and Fixed Income.
I'm pleased to share I'm joining Cognition as Field CTO for Financial Services. Curiosity has shaped every major decision in my career. It's the reason I've moved between disciplines, institutions and continents, driven simply by the will to learn and grow. Spending time programming most of my conscious life, watching code go from something I write, to something I direct, to something that writes itself sparked that curiosity once again. For a change of that magnitude, there's no better place to learn than working alongside the people leading it. The team is young, sharp, and already fluent in a way of working most of the industry hasn't caught up to yet. I was hoping to learn what being AI native feels like but alongside that they've already taught me swimming, bungee jumping, karaoke and that taco bell at midnight is great for gains. There's a lot of anxious conversation these days about where AI is headed and what it means for the next generation. Spending a few days with them told me they'll be just fine. In my new role, I'll help bring autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector. We're only at the beginning and I'm excited to build this vision alongside people who are actively defining what this next era looks like. If your institution is thinking through how to adopt AI safely and at scale, I'm here.
