Jean-Edouard (“J-E”) van Praet has spent more than 25 years in the Fintech industry prior to his current position as CEO and President of Brilliance Financial Technology, which develops cutting-edge real-time pricing and profitability SaaS solutions for the financial/banking sector. Before joining Brilliance he was CFO, Partner and Director of RIMES, an end-to-end data management solution provider for institutional investors, asset managers, and service providers. Prior to RIMES, J-E was an Investment Manager at SOFAER Capital, and an Investment Banker at Lazard Frères and Rothschild Wolfensohn. J-E is a Swiss-born Belgian national, and currently lives and works between New York City and Sydney.