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Many Mind sits at the intersection of low latency, innovative technology and electronic trading providing consulting services helping technology vendors scale, so they can focus on what they do best - build innovative technology solutions.

Bristol, Gb

Blackcore have created high-performance computing solutions to solve the world's most complex workloads in the Fintech industry. We continuously innovate, build, validate and deliver reliable production-ready solutions with leading-edge technologies and services. With solutions that scale up and scale out, we have a range of products to suit all workloads and algorithmic requirements.

Global, Oo

Orolia acquired Seven Solutions in 2022. At the intersection of critical infrastructure and national defense, Orolia solutions govern and protect the time and location integrity of systems that shape the world. With over 40 years of experience and a growing portfolio of innovative Positioning, Navigation, Timing, and GNSS Simulation solutions, our customer-first culture pushes the boundaries of quality, performance, and service.

Tokyo, Jp

FMAD Engineering is a Singapore-based company operating around the world bringing affordable high-quality packet capture and analysis to customers globally.Originally Founded in 2007 in Tokyo Japan by veteran hardware and software engineer Aaron Foo. Has now expanded with staff and operations to every major continent.FMAD is an engineering first company, we pride ourselves on building the best hardware and software that interpolates (not replace) with customers existing infrastructure. We are one part of your stack, and we do that one part ever so good.

London, England, Gb

Adaptive partners with capital and commodity market participants that value differentiation through technology. Adaptive's experienced teams design and deliver complex solutions, using proven accelerators, creating long-term competitive advantage for clients. I worked with Adaptive on the product positioning and sales for the Aeron Premium product which was derived from the Adaptive acquisition of Real Logic in 2022.

Paris, Ile De France, Fr

Enyx is a leading developer and provider of ultra-low latency FPGA-enabled technologies and solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and high performance computing industries.Focused on delivering higher performance with a lower datacenter footprint, Enyx provides off-the-shelf, end-to-end solutions for the finance industry. The Enyx stack includes ultra low latency market data normalization and distribution, order execution and in-hardware algo acceleration. Additionally, the Enyx product range features wireless network solutions and pre-built hardware IP blocks compatible with a range of FPGA platforms.Enyx was acquired by Exegy in May 2022.

Paris, Ile De France, Fr

Granada, Andalucia, Es

Seven Solutions S.L. is a privately held company with high expertise on embedded systems and leading accurate sub-nanosecond time transfer and frequency distribution for reliable industrial and scientific applications. Seven Solutions S.L. Was acquired by Orolia.

London, Gb

Acted as Interim Head of Sales working with CJC management to streamline existing sales team and client facing messaging. Implemented sales processes and executed on a sales training program to ensure consistency of positioning across CJC offerings. Collaborated with marketing functions to ensure client facing messaging was consistent across all sales team activities. Initiated search for full-time Head of Sales, determined candidate and transitioned all activities.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Worked with teams at Arista to ensure a smooth transition of the Metamako portfolio into the firm- Responsible for product management for Arista 7130 Series- Performed sales/account management functions for strategic low latency trading clients

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Responsible for global revenue growth of Metamako and marketing initiatives. - Led build out of global team and processes.- Helped guide product development and positioning.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Responsible for developing all aspects if the Metamako business within the US region.

- Accountable for day-to-day business operations and decision-making including sales management, development roadmaps, client satisfaction, resource planning and P&L.- Re-organized the business from a horizontal chargeback model to direct expense allocation driving profitability and preparing for external sale.- Created and presented executive management presentations including business finances, product & technology overviews and future business development plans to multiple diverse prospective buyers. Lead contact for subsequent due diligence business follow-ups.- Maintained client relationships with financial services executives to protect and ensure predictability for a future solid recurring revenue base.- Re-organized and rationalized teams into standalone functional structure reducing the need for reliance on external NYSE resourcing.- Prepared for separation from NYSE systems, processes and procedures to aid a seamless transition to buyer.

- Founded the Solutions division within NYSE Technologies to support the strategy of selling and delivering cross product solution sets to clients in order to gain further market share from clients and a wider breadth of product penetration within the existing client base.- Designed and implemented a “Solutions Framework” to ensure a consistent process was adhered to throughout the sales, architecture, development and roll-out phases of all solutions to allow for successful delivery.- Architected, sold and ensured successful delivery of the first solution deals resulting in additional annual recurring revenue for NYSE Technologies.- Ensured that each solution had a predictable and reportable P&L model to ensuring ongoing margin contribution from the deal.- Architected the technology and business model behind a multi-million annual deal to replace trading infrastructure for a tier 1 investment bank.- Developed and led a team of “Solution Engineers” to support the ongoing strategy to move towards a solution-oriented business.

- Led strategy to implement a consistent global model for technical account management across the diverse businesses acquired by NYSE Technologies including a weekly executive management dashboard outlining the health of the top 25 clients. - Rationalized the existing standalone client support teams into one team with cross-product knowledge.- Responsible for presales support across all products and services which led to a consistent client experience for presales interactions and an increased support level for sales activities.- Collated and developed standard technical sales presentations and maintained an archive of common questions that could be used for rapid RFI/RFP responses.- Responsible for software support desks and client managed services teams globally.- Managed resourcing and availability for on-site professional services engagements.

Us

- Responsible for all presales engagements globally. Managed a team of engineers and rolled-out a set of processes and tools to ensure the presales experience was consistent and had timely results for each opportunity.- Led the initiative to create and grow managed software services for Wombat clients, which upon acquisition by NYSE was an annual multi-million dollar product line.

Us

- Accountable for presales engineering and tier 1 technical account management, creating a pre and post sale satisfaction from clients.- Responsible for over $20m in new business for Wombat as a presales engineer.- First engineer “on the ground” in New York, influencing clients purchasing decisions while creating a feedback loop to product engineers to ensure future product direction.- Lead architect for all major client installations.

Belfast, Gb