Mark Badyra is the Chief Executive Officer of Appital. An experienced equity capital markets professional, Mark founded Appital to unlock latent liquidity in a market for size and bring enhanced bookbuilding and price formation capabilities to institutional investors.
The Appital Turquoise BookBuilder™, launched in August 2022, is the world’s first algorithmic bookbuilding platform that enables institutional investors to participate in liquidity discovery, price formation and execution opportunities in multiple days’ volume in publicly listed equities.
Prior to founding Appital, Mark worked with the UBS Equity Capital Markets syndicate desk, successfully placing multiple IPOs and follow-on transactions across sectors. He began his career at Bank of America in Debt Capital Markets and Foreign Exchange.