Yordanka Ilieva

Yordanka Ilieva is a Principal on the investment team at Nasdaq Ventures, where she evaluates and manages a portfolio of early-stage investments aligned with the organization's strategic priorities. Before joining the corporate venture capital group in 2017, she served as the Director of Finance and Operations at Selerity, overseeing internal financial and operational strategies for the enterprise. Her earlier professional background includes positions as a Business Development Associate at Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services and as a technology, media, and telecommunications investment banking analyst at Lazard. Ilieva earned a Master of Business Administration with Dean's Honors with Distinction from Columbia Business School. In her current capacity, her primary investment focus centers on modernizing market infrastructure, advancing data and analytics workflows, and deploying emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing within the broader global financial technology sector.