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Boston, Ma, Us

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Joined Kiln in June 2024 to lead expansion in the Americas.At Kiln, we believe the world’s financial system is being rebuilt on blockchains.Staking is a core primitive of this new world: by enabling asset owners to use their stake to secure the network and get rewarded, staking preserves decentralization.Our mission at Kiln is to provide easy access to blockchain protocols for our users, allowing them to earn rewards by securing networks and participating in protocol consensuses with their held cryptocurrencies.

Conmodum Group works with clients at the intersection of traditional finance & technology. Strategy, product roadmap, go-to-market, and sales program services services across multiple asset classes and markets.Unannounced Project. Settlement Operations & Risk Reduction platform for Institutional Digital Assets firms.AiPE Group (www.aipegroup.com). Advising on go-to-market strategy for Voice of Customer ("VOC") data analytics platform for Private Equity firms. AiPE identifies what customers across 64 languages think about a company and benchmark what customers like or dislike versus competition.Hedge Fund (Anonymous). Advising a 9-figure Fund on their decision to allocate towards Digital Assets. Educated Principal & Staff, advised on liquidity sources and custodian, created presentation to LP's. Provide ongoing due diligence on potential investments. LINGAR (www.lingar.com) is a software platform and mobile tour application for museums, cultural institutions and retail venues. Lingar combines image recognition technology, location-aware capabilities, and augmented reality to deliver multimedia content to your visitors at the point of contact with an art or sales exhibit. Lingar also captures opt-in email for future marketing purposes.

Remote First, Us

Responsible for partnerships with Capital Markets firms in the Americas and Europe to improve supply side distribution of Circle's stablecoins (USDC & EUROC), and Digital Dollar infrastructure.

Remote First, Us

Aug 2022 through June 2023 Highlights: Navigated challenging market conditions to build team of 6 direct reports selling Circle's API's, MPC Custody platform, and Digital Dollar infrastructure. Helped launch EUROC as point person to Market Makers & Exchange Operators. Managed Market Validation process for two $100M ARR business lines (Asset Tokenization & Margin Collateral)

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Joined Circle as an individual contributor with responsibility for Strategy & Relationships with Circle's largest clients; OTC desks, Market Makers,Crypto Exchanges. Created and nurtured relationships that brought in 82% of USDC's growth from $3.8 Billion (Jan 2021) to $55 Billion April 2022. Generated communications strategy for client base and built prospecting processes with SDR team, and operational processes with Customer Success Team.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As Managing Director of ntrd - an Oneiro Company, I am responsible for liquidity and liquidity relationships for our ndau project. ndau is the world's first adaptive digital asset, designed and optimized for the long-term store of value.My role oversees strategic marketing and relationships with crypto exchange operators, technology vendors, and HNW purchasers of ndau. Additionally, I Product Manage the build of our internally built, multi-platform risk management tools. Cras Es Noster

New York, Us

Spearhead Business Development efforts for SHIFT's Crypto Products & Services. Closed 5 partnerships to provide exchange platforms and liquidity services to Digital Asset exchange operators in London, Buenos Aires, Dubai, New York x 2 in 5 months.

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Visual Trading Systems is a platform and hosted services provider to the foreign exchange and over-the-counter derivatives industry. Headquartered in NYC, with 16 employees and development teams in NYC & St. Petersburg, Russia, the company serves a global client base.I was initially brought onto evaluate the potential to spin off a platform company from the parent brokerage entity. I led the process to separate the entity and it's assets, then changed the strategic direction and the branding of the company. I rebuilt the Support and Development teams, sourced & negotiated a contract to add an externally-built mobile trading application at just 60% of initial offered costs. I launched our Sales & Marketing efforts and booked 68% of our annual revenue goal in the first three months. Company was shut down by shareholders in Qtr 1, 2017

FX Primus is a Margin Trading Products brokerage firm operating multiple business units with registrations in Cyprus , the United Kingdom, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As COO I had responsibilities for the company's business units on a daily basis.* Hired to combine UK and Cyprus operations, I merged two Risk Management desks, streamlined technology platforms, re-negotiated clearing agreements to improve Risk Management yields by 14%. * Given responsibility to reverse the net deposit outflows from our B2B Sales team. I led the analysis of client deposits/withdrawals and traveled to Asia and interviewed our B2B Sales team members. Upon return I restructured the B2B Sales Channel compensation plan. Net Monthly Withdrawals of up to $400,000 soon turned into Net Monthly Deposits of over $1,500,000.* Added Marketing to my area of responsibilities. Re-evaluated the marketing assets (primarily a partnership with Manchester City Football Club) and built a branding campaign which improved B2C lead generation 22% with minimal cost increase. Quantitative analysis of website conversion led to a dramatically improved client experience which improved conversion by 6%.

Somerville, Massachusetts, Us

oneZero Financial Systems is a rapidly-growing provider of Liquidity Aggregation, Reporting, and Order Management Systems to the currency and OTC derivatives industry. After selling my company (CMAP) to oneZero, I took on the role of Head of Business Development - Americas. My role was to help implement a new division and revenue line (Hosted Services), plus work with our CEO on strategic partnerships , competitive intelligence, and business development. oneZero grew revenues by over 50% each year I was a member of the team with an increase in client base of over 35% each year. I signed clients in the US, UK, China, Cyprus, Israel, and Australia.I worked directly with our CEO to sign oneZero's largest, most complex, and largest industry partnership deals and helped launch their largest revenue generator , the oneZero Hub Liquidity Aggregation & Order Routing software platform. Signed a major, global bank to an OEM deal. Bank initially put out a competing product to oneZero at no cost to clients. I quickly built relationships with bank's clients and prospects to determine bank's software issues. I then worked with oneZero's CEO to network within bank and find senior executive responsible for their product and negotiated OEM contract. Attended global conferences on behalf of company; panelist and speaker at 6 events.

CMAP reduced start-up costs of an execution stack for FX & CFD by 95%; sold to oneZero Financial Systems in 2013. Business model continues to propel growth in the currency/OTC derivatives industry.Founded/bootstrapped SaaS trading platforms business, targeting currency/OTC derivatives industry. Identified business opportunity; removed upfront, fixed costs to brokers and offered variable costs structure that grew with broker revenues. Governed concept, strategy, sales, and marketing. Built/sourced full execution technology stack.I initially wrote a white paper ("Argentarius") in the fall of 2009 outlining the market opportunity to transform the business model of the currency/OTC derivatives business. I bootstrapped the company and launched a SaaS company that quickly gained traction in the industry and invited lots of competition. I built CMAP to a 4 person team and $2.1 mio in annual revenues but knew without the technical intellectual property that others in the value chain possessed, CMAP would need to partner with a company with technical IP. CMAP was sold to oneZero Financial Systems in April of 2013

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NFA-regulated Introducing Broker & CTA focused on currencies. I founded BackBayFx as the NFA was increasing capital requirements to the Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers ("RFED") in the USA. It was clear consolidation would take place and I put BackBayFX in a place to benefit from the coming changes. I led the branding, marketing plan, finance, and partner negotiations for BackBayFX. The company quickly became a leading global Introducing Broker with two RFED partners in the US, and two in the UK. BackBayFx was ranked as a top-5 Introducing Broker by each of our RFED partners almost every month. I led the implementation of Salesforce for our company in 2008 and oversaw the customized reporting we built to give continuous-loop feedback to the sales team. The company grew to a $2.4million annual revenues and 7 employees before I sold my stake to my partner so I could focus on building CMAP.

NFA-regulated Futures Commission Merchant ("FCM") focused on FX for a global client base. Raised $2 mio in venture funding with business plan. Purchased existing FCM and rebranded/rebuilt company from the ground up. As CFO I managed the Risk Management team, Financial & Managerial Reporting, and Compliance.Company raised $21mio in client assets within 14 months and was net income positive but shareholders closed company as FCM capital requirements increased.

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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Wellington Management focuses exclusively on investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets.I served as Client Administrator in the Operations group at Wellington Management Company, LLP. In this role I served as primary contact for a number of offshore mutual fund companies for daily operational responsibilities. I also worked extensively with the Asset Allocation modeling team and Wellington's Fixed Income & Currencies trading desks.

Boston, Ma, Us

I worked as an Associate with the portfolio managers in SSgA's Passive Equity and Equity Derivative group. I was responsible for much of the daily nuances of keeping client portfolio's FX exposure hedged to mandated levels.I worked with SSgA's programming team to improve their internal crossing of securities execution capabilities.

Mba, Finance/Economics

Bs, Economics

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