Matt Barrett

CEO & Co-Founder Adaptive

Matt Barrett is the CEO and co-founder of Adaptive, bringing over 20 years of experience in financial services to the company. Before co-founding Adaptive in 2012, he worked as a software engineer across various industries, including tenures at Societe Generale and Barclays. Driven by a belief that high-quality engineering and client-centricity go hand in hand, Adaptive crafts cutting-edge, bespoke trading technology solutions for capital markets firms across asset classes. Adaptive is for those firms who value differentiation via technology. Originally from New Zealand, Matt holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Auckland University.

Buy Side Day | 21st April

11:00 Future Tech Stack Panel: Rewiring the trading stack - How is the buy side rethinking technology to balance cost, flexibility, and resilience?

With cost pressures mounting and technology options expanding, buy-side firms are reassessing the design of their trading stacks- weighing whether to consolidate platforms, adopt SaaS-based solutions, or integrate modular, API-driven components. While cloud and third-party providers can bring efficiency and agility, they also change support models, increase vendor dependency, and introduce new resilience and data management challenges. This panel will explore how firms are approaching these trade-offs, adapting support processes for SaaS and third-party relationships, and maintaining continuous trading operations without losing control or execution capability. What defines a modern, agile tech stack- and how do you get there in a cost-constrained environment?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Matt.

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