Constantinos Antoniades

Constantinos Antoniades is Head of Liquidnet Fixed Income and is responsible for the day-to-day operations and expansion of the fixed income business globally. Liquidnet has introduced an industry-wide solution that brings together Liquidnet’s experience, scale and global reach within the institutional investment community with a proven trading platform that is accelerating efficiencies within the corporate bond market. The platform is currently available to all approved market participants in the US and Europe.

Antoniades joined the company following Liquidnet’s acquisition of Vega-Chi, a bond trading platform that he founded in 2008. As CEO of Vega-Chi, Antoniades led the launch of the first all-to-all electronic trading platform for the US corporate bond market as well as Europe's first multilateral trading facility dedicated to high yield and convertible bonds. At the time of Vega-Chi’s acquisition, the platform had more than 150 participant firms, including some of the largest institutional investors.

Prior to Vega-Chi, Antoniades spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs where he held various roles as part of the Fixed Income business in New York and London, and also three years as a buy-side trader/portfolio manager. Antoniades is a Fulbright program scholarship recipient and holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with the highest honors with a degree in Management Information Systems.