# Aman Thind

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Field CTO - Financial Services, Cognition  
Cognition  
London, England, United Kingdom

## At Cognition

- Role: Field CTO, Financial Services (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Jun 2026
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Global Head of Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, JPMorganChase

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- 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. (https://cognition.com/blog/building-in-london)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aman-thind-a916058_im-pleased-to-share-im-joining-cognition-activity-7487843727496118272-pTQ8)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aman-thind-a916058_im-pleased-to-share-im-joining-cognition-activity-7487843727496118272-pTQ8)
- Current role is Field CTO, Financial Services at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- 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. (https://evidentinsights.com/bankingbrief/agentic-slowdown)
- 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." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aman-thind-a916058_im-pleased-to-share-im-joining-cognition-activity-7487843727496118272-pTQ8)
- 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. (https://genesis2026.trustwise.ai/program)
- 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. (https://www.fintechfutures.com/job-cuts-new-hires/state-street-hires-aman-thind-as-new-global-chief-architect)
- 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. (https://hedgeweek.com/news/state-street-acquires-bestx)
- 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. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- 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. (https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37954/state-street-appoints-global-chief-architect)
- 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. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlka0x-Sb5M)
- At Morgan Stanley he ran the technology team for the Quant Solutions and Innovations group, productionising quants' MATLAB/Excel models into Java/C++ systems, which he cited as the pain that led BestX to Julia. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlka0x-Sb5M)
- At Morgan Stanley (2009-2016, Executive Director) he was a core architect of Matrix, the firm's e-trading platform, and led electronic trading and real-time analytics teams across FX, Equities and Fixed Income. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- Public headline says "Field CTO - Financial Services, Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- Has presented Cognition's view on the 'Future of autonomous Software Engineering' at events, per attendee posts. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rayaunfan_its-an-honour-to-be-working-with-and-learning-activity-7508093172498178049-iZMO)
- On Emerj's AI in Business podcast he argued: "52% of the companies from the year 2000 no longer exist" in the S&P 500, using an oranges-vs-orange-juice analogy for monetizing AI. (https://emerj.com/leveled-approaches-to-ai-for-asset-management-challenges-aman-thind-state-street/)
- Technology leader and Entrepreneur with proven track record of architecting high performance applications for financial services; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- Was thanked publicly by Karina Robinson for stressing, as Cognition's Field CTO, how attractive London is for frontier tech firms, in a City of London AI/quantum discussion. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karina-robinson_03-cognition-ais-growth-story-subtitles-activity-7518638684091629568-BMkA)
- Spoke at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025 as State Street EVP and Chief Architect, and at Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024. (https://gogetgpt.com/en/events/data-ai-summit-2025)
- Spoke at STAC Summit London (Fall 2018) as BestX co-founder, by then part of State Street, with a bio citing seven years in Morgan Stanley's electronic trading. (https://docs.stacresearch.com/fall2018LON-agenda-bios)
- Graduated from NIT Kurukshetra with an honors degree in computer science and engineering, then started at Quark Media House in Aug 2002. (https://emerj.com/leveled-approaches-to-ai-for-asset-management-challenges-aman-thind-state-street/)
- Previous roles include Field CTO, Financial Services at Cognition; Global Head of Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture at JPMorganChase; Chief Technology Officer, State Street Alpha at State Street; Chief Technology Officer, State Street Digital Assets at State Street; Executive Vice President, Chief Architect at State Street; Senior Vice President, CTO Globallink / BestX at State Street; Co-Founder, CTO at BestX; Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- Graduated from NIT Kurukshetra with an honors degree in computer science and engineering. (https://emerj.com/leveled-approaches-to-ai-for-asset-management-challenges-aman-thind-state-street/)
- Commented on a Cognition colleague's (Canyon Manske) post: "Well done Canyon! You are setting a model for what true partnership looks like! Truly impressed". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/canyon-manske-47b238b4_a-line-we-use-a-lot-at-cognition-its-fun-activity-7521673491826311168-hnU2)
- Early career as a developer at Quark Media House (2002-2004), Fidelity Investments (2004) and senior developer at Adobe Systems (2004-2006). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)
- Location is London, England, United Kingdom. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058)

## Experience
- Field CTO, Financial Services at Cognition - London (Jun 2026 - Present): Bringing autonomous software engineering into financial institutions, in a way that meets the security, governance and regulatory standards that define the sector.
- Global Head of Technology Strategy & Enterprise Architecture at JPMorganChase - London Area, United Kingdom (Oct 2025 - Jun 2026): 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.
- Chief Technology Officer, State Street Alpha at State Street - London, England, United Kingdom (Mar 2023 - Oct 2025): 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.
- Chief Technology Officer, State Street Digital Assets at State Street - London, England, United Kingdom (Jun 2021 - Oct 2025): 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.
- Executive Vice President, Chief Architect at State Street - London, England, United Kingdom (May 2021 - Oct 2025): 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.
- Senior Vice President, CTO Globallink / BestX at State Street - London, United Kingdom (Sep 2018 - Apr 2021): 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, CTO at BestX - London, United Kingdom (May 2016 - Apr 2021): 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.
- Executive Director at Morgan Stanley - Greater New York City Area (Jan 2009 - Apr 2016): 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.
- Senior Developer at Adobe Systems (Dec 2004 - Jul 2006)
- Developer at Fidelity Investments (Jan 2004 - Dec 2004)
- Developer at Quark Media House (Aug 2002 - Jan 2004)
Appointed CTO of entire GlobalLink in Nov 2019 to additionally lead its global technology creating industry leading platforms like FXConnect, Currenex, Fund Connect, TradeNexus.
Acquired by StateStreet in Sep 2018.
Led multiple technology and strategy teams in Electronic Trading and Realtime Analytics across FX, Equities and Fixed Income.

## Education
- National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058
- https://cognition.com/blog/building-in-london
- https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37954/state-street-appoints-global-chief-architect
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlka0x-Sb5M
- https://hedgeweek.com/news/state-street-acquires-bestx
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-thind-a916058?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAGDb80BzjFS6GhIbqQLt-mKprrCuEiUS2w
- https://docs.stacresearch.com/fall2018LON-agenda-bios
- https://genesis2026.trustwise.ai/program
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karina-robinson_03-cognition-ais-growth-story-subtitles-activity-7518638684091629568-BMkA
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/canyon-manske-47b238b4_a-line-we-use-a-lot-at-cognition-its-fun-activity-7521673491826311168-hnU2
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rayaunfan_its-an-honour-to-be-working-with-and-learning-activity-7508093172498178049-iZMO
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aman-thind-a916058_im-pleased-to-share-im-joining-cognition-activity-7487843727496118272-pTQ8
- https://evidentinsights.com/bankingbrief/agentic-slowdown
- https://www.fintechfutures.com/job-cuts-new-hires/state-street-hires-aman-thind-as-new-global-chief-architect
- https://www.techjournal.uk/p/cognition-expands-london-team-as
- https://onthewire.ai/article/cognition-says-its-uk-team-grew-by-more-than-200-in-six-months-as-it-opens-a-fin
- https://emerj.com/leveled-approaches-to-ai-for-asset-management-challenges-aman-thind-state-street/
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/aman-thind
- https://gogetgpt.com/en/events/data-ai-summit-2025


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