Chief Information Officer
New York, Us
Led all aspects of the Technology Group for the online foreign exchange (FX) leader through hyper-growth stage. Built the team, the technology and the processes to take Gain from small startup to global leader in online trading and ultimately an IPO on the NYSE in 2010. Summary of Achievements• Re-engineered the company’s proprietary Forex trading platform from the ground up to accommodate hyper-growth phase of the company. Trade requests per year grew from 2.3 million in 2005 to nearly 32 million in 2010. This includes new data centers, network and server hardware, trading platform software and client-facing application services. • Achieved an uptime percentage in 2010 of 99.998% on the company’s proprietary platform while reducing trade execution times by 70%.• Engineered high-frequency, low-latency trading algorithms using complex-event-processing engine to generate incremental revenue with low costs and risk. (Streambase)• Led efforts to acquire accounts and assets from multiple competitors such as MG Forex, CMS Forex, Arena, Fortune & DBXF.• Built multiple proprietary ForexTrader products for Windows, browser, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. All versions are multi-lingual, multi-currency, brand-able and localized for millions of end-users in over 130 countries around the globe. • Launched Gain GTX, a Forex ECN catering to an institutional client-base.• Built out new corporate HQ office in Bedminster as well as new regional offices in London, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai.• Mentored and built the technology group from 12 to 100+ members with full-service capabilities (Infrastructure & Engineering, Software Engineering, QA, Release Mgmt, Technology Operations, and Data Services). Successfully outsource 20+% of development to offshore teams.• Built the technology process and services to meet SOX & SAS-70/SSAE-16 compliance requirements for IPO