Tradeteq appoints Lenna Russ as the new Chief Revenue Officer

By Megha Bhattacharya

UK-based Tradeteq has announced the appointment of Lenna Russ as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. Lenna will play a role in accelerating the next phase of Tradeteq’s growth. This includes full ownership of the company’s revenue-generating organisations, customer lifecycle, partner management and all channel-related activities. Lenna will develop and drive a sustainable growth strategy while ensuring that the firm continuously delivers innovation and experiences that matter to Tradeteq’s customers and partners globally.

Nils Behling, Co-Founder and CFO at Tradeteq, said, “As a fast-growing fintech, our people are as important as our product so over the past few months we have been investing in both. We are delighted to have Lenna join our team as she brings vast leadership experience and a strong track record in driving scalable revenue growth. Thus will be important as we continue on our mission to expand access to trade finance for SMEs by making trade finance exposures investable.”

Lenna brings over 15 years of leadership experience in the enterprise software space to the team, having most recently worked as Global SVP of Commercial at technology firm, Polecat, and having previously headed up the enterprise group at NICE Satmetrix.

Lenna Russ, Chief Revenue Officer at Tradeteq, added, “I am excited to join Tradeteq and strongly believe its transformative trade finance distribution technology and expertise will both simplify the end-to-end trade distribution process and grow the value of the trade finance market overall through our unique securitisation solution.”