Experience

ripe.io

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Dec 2016 - 7 years 1 month

  San Francisco Bay Area From my journey of international trading, capital markets, global finance, to co-founding team member of R3CEV, and now our start up, ripe.io, the Blockchain of Food. We look to solve for food problems around one of the most important aspect of our lives which is what we eat. Join us- we welcome those who know and believe food is the gateway to health and happiness.



R3

• France
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director, Product Development

  • Mar 2015 - Nov 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Innovate, create and help manage the development of dynamic, distributed ledger based products for R3CEV and its bank members.



Balboa Maple Advisors/eFXPath

• Co-Founder, Advisor

  • Nov 2012 - Oct 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Balboa Maple Advisors - Incubator for emerging companies in the financial technology space eFXPath - Advisory business for strategy, financial trading, e-commerce, regulatory compliance, technology implementation, M&A due diligence serving banks, exchanges, non financial market makers R3CEV - Currently serving as advisor assisting on developing strategy and execution to implement distributed ledger, blockchain and crypto currency technologies in the financial markets.



Wells Fargo

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager - FX

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2012

  San Francisco Program manager responsible for implementing all aspects of Dodd Frank regulations within the Foreign Exchange Trading group. Additionally managed the integration of Wells Fargo Global Financial Institutions business into latest FX infrastructure.



M Squared Consulting

• Italy
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Nov 2010 - Oct 2011

  Provide senior level implementation solutions for banking, enterprise technologies, global strategies and crowd sourcing. Current engagement at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco managing implementation of Dodd Frank legislation and other trading and sales projects in the foreign exchange trading area.



Silicon Valley Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• FX Global Strategy Manager

  • Apr 2008 - Oct 2010

  Manage global electronic trading initiatives and FX trading.



Citigroup

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP

  • May 2005 - Mar 2008

  Primary focus is to innovate by providing next generation products with real world practicality in pursuit of widening market share within our enormous base of customers.



Formation Advisors, LLC

• Principal

  • Jan 2003 - Mar 2005

  Formations Advisors assists new and early stage companies on business concept formation and capital raise.



ChooseEnergy.com

• CEO

  • Apr 1999 - Dec 2002

  Co Founder and CEO. Company provided data transaction processing and web-based customer management for energy companies preparing to transition in a deregulated environment. Managed technology development, fund raising, high level customer acquisition, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. Privately sold.



PFN

• Italy
• Farming

• COO

  • Apr 1995 - Apr 1999

  Sold to Cisco, Inc. Co-founded innovative applied networking technology for proprietary content exchange for financial trading companies and their trusted fund or investment management trading partners. Managed capital raise of $4MM, operations, customer sales, and strategic partnerships.



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• North American Manager

  • Aug 1992 - Sep 1994

  Managed P/L for Forex Watch in the North Americas, a premier content and analysis product distributed over the Telerate/Dow Jones network. Managed staff, oversaw technology upgrade and focused on content quality and sales performance.



Bank of America

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Foreign Exchange Trader

  • Jun 1987 - Aug 1991

  Institutional trading of foreign exchange and currency options for customers and the bank.