ASPEN QUOTES 1
LEADERSHIP

We’re a financial technology company founded by industry veterans.

Roman Ginis

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Roman Ginis

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Formerly Quantitative Trader at Cubist/Point72 & UBS (10 years) where he developed and traded directional and market making strategies. A Caltech PhD in CS (2002), Roman brings deep expertise in market micro-structure and trade execution, and holds patents in stream computing and complex event processing.

John Palazzo

Chief Operating Officer, IntelligentCross ATS

John Palazzo

Chief Operating Officer, IntelligentCross ATS

Formerly Managing Director of UBS’ Electronic Trading Products with direct responsibilities for the execution desk and the #1 (by volume) US ATS, including sales, operations and compliance.

Scott Graczyk

Head of Business Development

Scott Graczyk

Head of Business Development

Formerly Head of Trading at Marshall Wace and SAC, running trading and alpha capture desks for the $10B+ AUM funds. Prior to that Global Head of Sales, Instinet.

Alex Gerasimoff

Head of Trading Technology

Alex Gerasimoff

Head of Trading Technology

Formerly 12 years with Credit Suisse’ on the Crossfinder team (a top equities ATS) and as a technical lead for Clearwater fixed income ATS. Alex brings expert knowledge of matching engine design and low-latency system engineering.

Patrick Dote

Head of Research

Patrick Dote

Head of Research

Formerly Head of Quant Execution, Clinton Group (11 years), responsible for turning over $1B/day, where he built execution algorithms and managed operations. Prior to that Program & Algo Trader at Cowen (10 years), responsible for agency execution and transaction analysis.

Greg Ludvik

Head of Product and Strategy

Greg Ludvik

Head of Product and Strategy

Formerly Head of Americas SOR and LL DMA at Goldman Sachs, managing routing and best execution for equities and options. Prior to that, Head of Global Liquidity Strategy at RBC.

Lorna Boucher

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Lorna Boucher

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Lorna served 6+ years as CMO & Global Head of Social Responsibility at Instinet, and 20+ years in previous roles at KCG, UBS, and other brands. She brings industry and behavioral insights to brand strategy and creative marketing communications, driving growth, market share and mindshare.

Vladimir Shchutski

Head of Infrastructure

Vladimir Shchutski

Head of Infrastructure

Formerly Senior Director of Infrastructure at Market Factory, an FX SaaS startup acquired by ION Group. Prior to that Head of Infrastructure at Fast Match, a low-latency FX ECN startup, acquired by EuroNext.

Ari Burstein

General Counsel and Chief Policy Officer

Ari Burstein

General Counsel and Chief Policy Officer

Formerly six years with the SEC, almost 17 years with the Investment Company Institute and ICI Global, and 6 years as President of Capital Markets Strategies, where he represented a variety of financial services firms on regulatory and policy issues.

Scott Kursman

Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Scott Kursman

Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)

Formerly CCO at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., former President, SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society. A graduate of the Boston University School of Law and Tufts University, Scott brings over 30 years of experience in securities, futures, derivatives and banking regulation.

Michael Sotiropoulos

Managing Director, Quantitative Execution

Michael Sotiropoulos

Managing Director, Quantitative Execution

Formerly senior quantitative analyst at Citadel Securities, and global head of quant research for equities electronic and portfolio trading at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Visiting professor of computational finance at Princeton and NYU-Tandon.

Sal Mangiapane

Senior Director of Trading Operations

Sal Mangiapane

Senior Director of Trading Operations

Formerly Group Manager Production Services Hypervisors and Infrastructure at BNY Mellon. Prior to that, Global Head of Governance & Controls for Low Latency Electronic Trading Infrastructure at Credit Suisse. Expert in design, development, and delivery of high performance operations technology.

We believe efficient markets don’t happen naturally—they need to be engineered to make them so.

We are committed to what we do and want equally passionate professionals to become part of our growing group, headquartered in Connecticut. We’re looking for team members who are eager to take on broad ranging roles and responsibilities, maintain strong interpersonal relationships and help us build upon our vision.