Jason Noorman
Jason Noorman | |
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| Occupation | Technology executive |
| Years active | 25+ years |
| Employer | Kinesis Money |
| Known for | Financial technology, artificial intelligence, quantitative trading, digital assets |
| Title | Chief Technology Officer |
Jason Noorman is a technology executive and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) whose career has focused on financial technology, electronic trading, telecommunications, insurance, blockchain infrastructure, and digital assets.[1] He has more than 25 years of experience in technology leadership and software engineering, including the development and operation of financial-market and institutional trading platforms.[2]
Noorman's professional work has increasingly focused on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to financial markets. His areas of work include quantitative trading, algorithmic strategy optimisation, market-regime classification, trading-signal generation, and risk analysis. His technical experience includes machine-learning frameworks and methods such as CatBoost, XGBoost, and TensorFlow.[3]
Education
Jason Noorman completed Executive Education at Harvard Business School Executive Education in 2015 and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing from The University of Queensland, where he studied from 2000 to 2004.
Career
Noorman began his career in financial technology and software engineering, later holding senior technology and executive positions across financial services, telecommunications, insurance, enterprise software, and digital assets.
National Australia Bank
From 1995 to 2000, Noorman worked at National Australia Bank as Global Development Services Manager. He joined the organisation in connection with the Merlin project for its Corporate and Institutional Bank, involving derivatives, options, and market making. His work provided early exposure to quantitative modelling, derivatives pricing, financial-market technology, and market-making systems.
Verizon
From 2000 to 2004, Noorman worked at Verizon, having initially joined SecureNet as head of development. He subsequently became General Manager of Services and Senior Vice President of Global Mergers and Acquisitions. His work included the development and delivery of public key infrastructure (PKI) and cryptographic systems.
Global Financial Systems – China
From 2004 to 2006, Noorman served as Chief Operating Officer of Global Financial Systems – China, based in Jinan, Shandong. He worked on technology and capability programmes for mid-sized and large regional banks in China as part of a financial-services consulting organisation.
MYOB
From 2006 to 2010, Noorman was Chief Technology Officer of MYOB, an Australian accounting software company. He led enterprise technology strategy and engineering and oversaw the transition of the company's products from distributed physical media toward online services.
PageUp People
From 2011 to 2012, Noorman served as Senior Vice President of Global Information Technology at PageUp People, where he led the global technology and engineering organisation supporting the company's enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent-acquisition platform. His responsibilities included product delivery, engineering, quality assurance, scalability, and reliability.
Telstra
From 2012 to 2017, Noorman was Director of Innovation at Telstra, working within the company's Chief Technology Officer organisation. He was involved in enterprise innovation programmes, including the Gurrowa Innovation Lab, and was a recipient of the Telstra COO Award.
During his tenure, he co-created Telstra's Innovation Hub platform and worked on new platform capabilities, application programming interfaces (APIs), and digital services across multiple business units. He also represented technology functions supporting the company's People, Culture and Performance teams.
Bupa Australia & New Zealand
From 2017 to 2018, Noorman served as Director of Technology Projects Delivery at Bupa Australia & New Zealand. He was responsible for technology project delivery and platform support and led distributed teams across agile engineering, software development, business analysis, quality assurance, and production support. His work included large-scale digital transformation programmes within a regulated healthcare environment.
Pepperstone
From September 2018 to April 2021, Noorman served as Chief Technology Officer of Pepperstone, a global foreign exchange and contracts-for-difference (CFD) broker.
As CTO and a member of the executive team, he led technology strategy covering algorithmic trading platforms, FIX-protocol market connectivity, real-time risk systems, and institutional financial-market data infrastructure. His responsibilities also included technology platforms supporting foreign exchange, CFDs, equities, and cryptocurrency markets.
Noorman also led the development of engineering capabilities spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning, data engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
Kinesis Money
Since May 2021, Noorman has served as Chief Technology Officer of Kinesis Money, a financial technology company focused on blockchain-based monetary and trading infrastructure backed by physical precious metals. His responsibilities include global technology strategy, product development, cloud infrastructure, and platform operations.
At Kinesis, he has worked on high-availability financial technology platforms, cloud infrastructure across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), FinOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), zero-trust security, and platform resilience. His work also encompasses blockchain, digital assets, trading systems, APIs, and the integration of decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols and tokenised-asset infrastructure.
His responsibilities include technology supporting regulatory requirements in relevant jurisdictions, including anti-money-laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC), and regulatory technology (RegTech) systems.
Allocated Bullion Exchange
Since May 2021, Noorman has also served as Chief Technology Officer of Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX), part of the Kinesis group. ABX operates an institutional electronic exchange for allocated physical precious metals.
In this role, Noorman has overseen the architecture and development of MetalDesk, a trading, clearing, and settlement platform incorporating FIX-protocol connectivity and real-time risk management. His responsibilities have included exchange infrastructure for price discovery, order matching, trading, and settlement, as well as blockchain-enabled market infrastructure and prime-broker connectivity.
His work has also included institutional connectivity, security, compliance, and financial messaging infrastructure incorporating ISO 20022 standards.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Noorman's professional interests include the use of AI and ML in financial markets. His work has encompassed supervised learning, gradient-boosting techniques, and deep learning for financial applications.
Areas of application have included:
- quantitative trading signal generation;
- algorithmic strategy optimisation;
- market-regime classification;
- risk scoring and analysis;
- real-time financial decision systems;
- machine-learning operations (MLOps).
He has also worked on generative AI and agentic AI applications in financial and enterprise environments. These have included large language model (LLM) analysis pipelines, autonomous decision agents, document intelligence, and AI-assisted software tools integrated into financial workflows.
Financial-market technology
Noorman's technical background includes the design and development of systems for electronic and algorithmic trading. His areas of expertise include market microstructure, low-latency execution, real-time risk management, exchange technology, and financial-market infrastructure.[4]
He has worked across equity, foreign exchange, cryptocurrency, and other digital-asset markets.
Blockchain and digital assets
Noorman's professional work has also included blockchain technology, digital assets, and decentralised finance (DeFi). His experience encompasses infrastructure and technology systems supporting digital-asset and financial-market applications.
Technology leadership
In addition to technical implementation, Noorman has worked at executive and board level on technology strategy and transformation. His leadership responsibilities have included global engineering organisations, cloud-native technology programmes, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering (SRE), and systems requiring high availability and operational resilience.
His technical and leadership areas include financial AI, quantitative finance, generative and agentic AI, algorithmic trading, exchange technology, blockchain infrastructure, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, MLOps, and global technology leadership.
References
- ↑ "Jason Noorman". Crunchbase. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
- ↑ "Jason Noorman". Kinesis Money. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
- ↑ "Kinesis Money — Executive Leadership". The Org. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
- ↑ "Jason Noorman - Chief Technology Officer at Allocated Bullion Exchange ABX". Wiza. Retrieved 8 October 2026.