Leadership Team

Prior to founding DataSynapse, Peter served as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan & Co. Peter has worked on a wide range of capital markets and investment banking transactions based in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

Peter holds a joint MBA/MA degree from The Wharton School/Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in Entrepreneurial Management/International Affairs, and earned an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University.

Roger is responsible for leading DataSynapse's Finance and HR functions. He brings over 15 years experience, during which he gained in depth experience in many finance and business related areas, including mergers & acquisitions and strategic financial planning. He also has a strong record of building and managing highly effective and efficient finance and business operations.

Roger joins DataSynapse from Concord Communications, a software company, where he was Vice-President of Finance. At Concord, he supported the M&A activity which resulted in three successful acquisitions, helped raise an $86M convertible bond debenture, successfully managed the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance effort. He supported the sales process of the company to Computer Associates, which resulted in a purchase price at 70% premium in 2005.

Prior to Concord, Roger held senior finance positions at numerous high technology firms, including Scitex America, a manufacturer of hardware, software and equipment for the printing industry; Information Access Center, an IT outsourcing firm part of the Thomson Company. Roger started his finance career at a major Canadian bank, based in Montreal, Canada. Roger holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada and a MBA from the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada.

Kevin is responsible for all legal matters for DataSynapse. He brings over 20 years of broad legal experience, particularly in mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions.

Kevin joins DataSynapse after serving for nine years as General Counsel of The BISYS Group, Inc., a leading outsourcing services provider to financial institutions, and helping BISYS grow its revenue from $250 million to over $1 billion through organic growth and nearly 40 acquisitions. He also served as General Counsel of Concurrent Computer Corporation, a manufacturer and provider of proprietary computer systems.

He gained experience in corporation transaction as a corporate associate at a leading New York City law firm following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania’s joint JD/MBA degree program where he received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He also earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Finance from the University of Virginia.

Ivan directs the company’s marketing and product management functions. Ivan joined DataSynapse with 15 years of experience in marketing strategy and execution for a series of growth oriented infrastructure software companies. Prior to joining DataSynapse, Ivan held senior marketing and product management roles with IONA Technologies, where he directed the launch of IONA’s SOA infrastructure products. While at IONA, Ivan also built the company’s customer value program, where he consulted with leading Global-1000 IT organizations, to help them understand and realize the economic impact of SOA on enterprise computing. Prior to IONA, Ivan held senior marketing and product management roles with ground breaking middleware vendor Level 8 Systems, where he launched the company’s EAI and messaging infrastructure software products.

Based in New York, Ivan is a noted industry-speaker and writer, and has lectured at leading technology conferences on topics as wide-ranging as grid computing, next generation datacenter strategies, EAI, SOA and other middleware trends. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Binghamton University.

John brings over twenty years experience in software development and fifteen years management experience to his role as Senior Vice President, Engineering. As a technical leader at DataSynapse, he has directed key implementations in the company's GridServer® product development and technical processes. John is responsible for technical product management, technical support, and internal IT.

Prior to joining DataSynapse, he ran the global market data project at ILX Systems (Thompson Financial), extending ILX Systems's market data coverage to include exchanges and data providers in EMEA and Asia. John was instrumental in securing the first contract in this new market segment.

His earlier work experience includes market data development at EF Hutton, data communications programming at Systems Strategies, and consulting in the educational and game programming areas. John has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia College of Columbia University.

As SVP and Managing Director, Christopher Nathan is responsible for managing operations across Europe for DataSynapse, which have expanded significantly over the last six years. Prior to his current position, Christopher was Director of Sales for DataSynapse, where he was instrumental in growing the client base with successful engagements at HSBC, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, among others.

Prior to joining DataSynapse, Christopher was General Manager EMEA for Pinnacor, which was acquired by Dow Jones. Christopher brings over twenty years of sales and senior management experience in the software industry with postings in Europe, North America and Asia.

Previously, Christopher was Managing Director of BankStat, a risk management platform developed by Bankers Trust, where he was responsible for global operations including sales, services, support, marketing and product development. Christopher also spent over five years in sales and management positions while at Thomson Financial.

Fred holds the joint roles of Chief Technology Officer for EMEA and senior vice president of global sales enablement. Based in London and working closely with organizations seeking to optimize their IT infrastructures, Fred offers unique insights into the technology of dynamic application service management as well as the methodology of establishing ROI and rapid deployment to the immediate advantage of the business.

Fred has more than fifteen years experience of enterprise middleware and high-performance infrastructures. Prior to DataSynapse he worked in high performance CRM middleware and was the CTO EMEA for New Era of Networks (NEON) during the rapid growth of Enterprise Application Integration. His 25-year career in technology also includes management positions at Goldman Sachs and Stratus Computer.

Fred holds a First Class Bsc (Hons) degree in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Leeds.

Willy, most recently comes from platform leader Integral Development Corporation the leading provider of multi asset class, multi liquidity provider portal for the capital markets where he served as Sales Director, EMEA. Prior to Integral Willy started and ran European operations for Misys plc, Summit Systems International, Midas-Kapiti, ACT Financial Systems, Quotient, Honeywell and Tymshare (UK).

Willy has his ALA from Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen and undergraduate from Alan Glen's School, Glasgow.

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