Ato Garrett serves as Senior Vice President and Investor Relations Officer. In his role, Ato is responsible for Nasdaq’s global investor relations strategy and leading overall engagement with the investment community across quarterly earnings calls, investor meetings, and conferences.

Prior to Nasdaq, Ato served as Senior Director and Head of Investor Relations at Veeva Systems, a leading provider of cloud software, data, and services to the life sciences industry. Before joining Veeva, Ato spent a decade as a sell-side analyst at Guggenheim Securities and Deutsche Bank, where he covered software and business services companies, including Thomson Reuters and FactSet. 

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.