PERSON
Miki Edelman
Head of the Americas at Macquarie Group and one of the most experienced AI deployers in global capital markets, whose eighteen years at the intersection of finance and machine learning produced a single, operational thesis: AI earns its place not by impressing benchmarks but by surviving the audit.
The world’s most rigorous AI proving ground is not Silicon Valley—it is a trading floor. Miki Edelman has spent the working life of a generation inside that environment, first at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and then across eighteen years at Macquarie Group, where she has served as Head of the Americas during the period in which capital markets transitioned from algorithmic execution to statistical learning to large-model inference. Her arc through Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, London, and New York is simultaneously a geographic career and a curriculum in what AI actually requires to survive in regulated, adversarial, consequence-bearing environments. She backed
natural-language behavioral surveillance at Digital Reasoning in 2019, graph-native risk analytics at Quantexa in the same year, and generative financial intelligence at Aiera from 2023—three sequential bets that, together, trace the exact arc of enterprise AI from behavioral language understanding through relational graph reasoning to synthesis