Adena Friedman

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman at the US Department of the Treasury Women in Finance Symposium, July 12, 2011.
Born	Adena Robinson Testa 1969 (age 47–48)
Nationality	United States
Education	B.A. Williams College M.B.A. Vanderbilt University
Occupation	CEO of NASDAQ
Spouse(s)	Michael Friedman
Children	2
Parent(s)	Adena W. Testa Michael D. Testa

Adena T. Friedman (born 1969) currently serves as CEO of Nasdaq. She was formerly the managing director and CFO of The Carlyle Group. In May 2014, it was announced that Friedman would return to NASDAQ OMX as the president of global corporate and information technology solutions. In November 2016, she was named the CEO of NASDAQ.

Born Adena Robinson Testa and raised in metropolitan Baltimore, she is the daughter of Michael D. Testa, a managing director at T. Rowe Price, and Adena W. Testa, an attorney in the Baltimore law firm of Stewart, Plant & Blumenthal. She attended Roland Park Country School. She earned a BA in political science from Williams College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

As of 2014, she is listed as the 69th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Friedman became CEO on January 1, 2017 of the Nasdaq.

In 1993, she married Michael Cameron Friedman in a Presbyterian ceremony in Hanover, New Hampshire. They have two sons. She is a black belt in taekwondo.