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Jeffrey Walker
Managing Partner 

Jeff has twenty years experience in international financial and information services, focused on strategic marketing and product development. At Reuters Jeff built global marketing, sales and product management organizations that developed, promoted, supported and sold the company’s first integrated global real-time, reference database, news and analytic product. The product reversed a key, declining market segment and became the fastest selling new generation information service for Reuters. As a member of the founding team at several VC-backed financial service start-ups, he developed the product vision, strategic marketing and alliance programs. He structured and implemented key revenue and product alliances for global financial exchanges targeted at institutional markets. Jeff was a financial systems analyst and arbitrage trader for DCNY, a primary dealer of securities. 

 
 
Thomas Kokoska, Jr.
Chief Technical and Financial Engineering Officer

Tom has twenty years experience in the finance and financial services industries, spanning quantitative analysis, technical design, production, & management, and product and project management. At Reuters, Tom designed and implemented the company's strategic fixed income databases, managed the production of analytics for their flagship equity and fixed income front office products, and managed the strategic direction of the technical analysis and graphics products. Tom has worked in technical design, financial modelling and product design at DLJ, Smith Barney, Bloomberg, and UBS. Tom holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively.

 
 
Atul Jain
EVP, Financial Software Engineering
Atul advises clients on issues relating to deployment of technology, system specification, software engineering and applications outsourcing. Atul founded Vichara, a consultancy and development firm that works with clients to optimally manage all aspects of proprietary technology development for the financial service industry. Prior to Vichara, he was a Managing Principal at Unisys, where he headed the American capital markets technology business. Atul joined Unisys in 1999 as part of Unisys’ acquisition of TechHackers, a quantitative financial technology firm that he founded in 1986 and served as CEO. Earlier, he worked as a consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers and research engineer at Hewlett Packard. Atul holds MS and BS degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 
 
Michael How
EVP, Financial Product and Project Management
Mike specializes in managing project-related technical issues, including system architecture and software development. He is a leading technical resource and mentor for both Accendo and client technical staff. Michael founded Vichara, a consultancy and development firm that works with clients to optimally manage all aspects of proprietary technology development for the financial service industry Prior to founding Vichara, he was a Managing Principal at Unisys, which he joined in 1999 as part of Unisys’ acquisition of TechHackers, a quantitative financial technology firm that he founded in 1986 and served as CTO. Prior to founding TechHackers, he worked as a research engineer at Hewlett Packard and Digital. Mike holds MS and BS degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
 
 
Andrew Sutherland
EVP, Front Office Trading Systems
Andrew’s expertise is in financial software, front-office trading systems and systems integration. Working from London, Andrew maintains close contact with our European client base. Andrew managed a front-office development team at the commodity derivatives unit of Barclay’s Capital. Prior to Barclays, Andrew was a derivatives trader at Citigroup, where he dealt in hybrid products and fund derivatives. Also at Citi, Andrew was a driving force behind the development of their exotic fixed-income derivatives trading system, now used globally. Andrew holds a J.D. (Doctor of Law) from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in physics and computer science from Swarthmore College.

 

 

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