OUR PEOPLE
Our people's experience enables them to connect the dots between business and today's and tomorrow's technologies. Everything from business processes, to software applications, to hardware platforms comes into play. We pull together a team whose synergy will be apparent to all.
 
Susan Landin - COO: Finance & Operations
Susan manages the elimination of inefficiencies, the reduction of risk, the control of staffing and builds capacity for growth.

She was formerly director of product development and licensing at LimiTrader and director of program management for North American Operations at Union Bank of Switzerland, where she coordinated the consolidation resulting from several major mergers and acquisitions.

Robert Kaskel - CTO: Solution Development
Robert has dedicated his career to straight through processing specializing in the integration of front, back and middle office systems.

For Lazard Frères, Robert developed the straight through integration technology that consolidated information on all their managed assets. For the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Robert developed a loan syndication system that enabled the bank to lead the largest deals in the world.

He designed and developed applications for the analysis of assets and mortgage backed securities, numerous trading exchanges, clearance and settlement systems, risk management, corporate lending, trading desks, legal and insurance services and a variety of start-up company concepts.

Peter Saridakis - CRO: Sales & Marketing
Peter Saridakis is an entrepreneurial professional with 20+ years of proven revenue generation, innovation including payments, digital media, interactive marketing and technical product integration.

Most recently he ran a successful consulting practice where he advised Fortune 500 companies and start-ups on everything digital and social. He was VP Strategic Sales at Ripple6 (Acquired by Gannett). He held senior strategic business development and product roles during his tenure at Citigroup and was one of the original members that launched myciti.com still used today by Citibank Online customers.

He was a founding partner at Intertech Capital where he helped bring technology start ups to market and grow their revenue. He managed the Global Strategy Fund for the Office of the CEO and was a Sr. Director of Global Marketing while at MasterCard.

 

Don Weeden - Chairman of XTG
Mr. Weeden, Board Member of Weeden & Co., developed the third market, a catalyst for the elimination of fixed commissions and is known the "Father of electronic trading".  He was a founder of Instinet and Autex, and is one of the great innovators of Wall Street, well known for applying technology to produce fair and more efficient markets.

Don’s book, Weeden & Co., the New York Stock Exchange, and the Struggle for a National Market, chronicles his efforts to create transparency in financial markets and enable consistent national regulations.

Michael Guttman - Advisor
Michael is CEO of The Voyant Group.  At Voyant, he developed the Object Management Group’s FastStart program for Model Driven Architecture©.  This work led to his book, Real Life MDA, and to the creation of Model Driven Solutioning™ , using model driven techniques to improve the processes by which businesses evaluate opportunities and implement solutions.

Michael co-founded Genesis Development, a global provider of object-oriented enterprise solutions, which he sold in 2000. At Genesis, he developed SureTrack, a process for transitioning large IT organizations to advanced technologies, was a major contributor to industry standards such as CORBA™ and UML, and co-authored The Object Technology Revolution and Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: a Manager’s Guide

Michael is a Senior Consultant to the Cutter Consortium, a contributing editor to Software Magazine and serves on several corporate advisory boards.   

Kevin Vogt - Advisor
Kevin is the designer and implementer of some of the world's largest fiber optic switching hubs, while at the same time retaining his expertise down to the smallest-scale local area network technologies.

Glenn Phillips - Vice Chairman of XTG
Mr. Phillips has broad managerial experiences in the technology, E-Commerce, financial services, consumer and industrial sectors from start-ups and restructuring's to multinational environments with extensive financial restructuring, turnaround, M&A and profit/process improvement experience.