Ms Beattie has more than 25 years experience in financial technology and capital markets. She currently runs Market Structure Partners, a strategic consulting firm. She spent more than a decade in senior positions at Merrill Lynch International. She is currently non-executive Chairman of listed entity Acquis Exchange Limited, which operates a pan-European share trading venue, and of privately owned XTX Markets, a quantitative-driven, electronic global market-maker. She is also a non-executive Director of Kepler Cheuvreux UK Ltd, a French brokerage firm. She was previously on the boards of MOEX, the Moscow Exchange, and of Borsa Istanbul, the Turkish Exchange. She serves on the Secondary Markets Advisory Committee to the European Securities Markets Authority and between 2012 and 2018 she was on the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.