Governing Board

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director

FINOS

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director

Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit organization. Gabriele brings a wealth of expertise in executive and technical leadership, ranging from FinTech to enterprise collaboration, from developer platforms to SaaS ARR business models. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gabriele built the Symphony Software Foundation from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for Wall Street to accelerate the digital transformation, engaging in a new model of open source FinTech innovation. Gabriele is a PMC Member for the Apache Software Foundation and an advisor for BANKEX. He’s a proud SSC Napoli supporter, reggae music connoisseur and a South Park groupie.

Bryan Bogensberger

Gold Director

Bryan Bogensberger

Gold Director

Bryan Bogensberger was the CEO of npm, Inc., the world’s largest software registry. Bryan joined npm after leading a series of successful open source companies, including Inktank and Reasonably Smart. He focuses on npm’s go-to-market efforts, his most exciting challenge yet: empowering npm’s 11 million JavaScript developers to achieve their goals. Bryan lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife Karen, and their extraordinarily fluffy feline, Ted.

Jason Imperato

CIO Nomura Holding America; CIO Global Markets

Nomura

Jason Imperato

CIO Nomura Holding America; CIO Global Markets

Jason Imperato, Managing Director, is Chief Information Officer of Nomura Holding America Inc. (NHA) and Global Head of Global Markets Technology at Nomura, the global investment bank. Jason oversees the Technology Division and is a member of the NHA Executive Committee. Jason joined Nomura in 2008 from Lehman Brothers where he was Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Derivatives Technology. Prior to that, he was CTO at Sagamore Hill Capital Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund located in Greenwich, CT. He previously held senior management positions at BNP Paribas and Zurich Capital Markets. Jason received a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Colgate University and an MS in Computer Science from New York University.

Gavin Leo-Rhynie

Head of Engineering & Architecture

JP Morgan

Gavin Leo-Rhynie

Alejandra Villagra

Chair, FINOS

Managing Director

Global Head of Citi Velocity

Citi

Alejandra Villagra

Global Head of Citi Velocity

Alejandra “Ali” Villagra is a Managing Director in the Markets division of Citi, and Head of North American Sales and Global Product Development for Citi Velocity. Since joining Citi in 2001, she has held positions in Investment Grade Debt Origination, Institutional Sales, and Technology and Sales Management. Ali is a graduate of Dartmouth College and lives in Tribeca with her husband Jason van Dalen and her son Diego van Dalen.

Dov Katz

Chair, FINOS

Managing Director

Morgan Stanley

Dov Katz

Managing Director

Dov Katz is a Managing Director and Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley. He has been at the Firm for 18 years, involved in a wide array of technologies ranging from instant messaging, to client facing electronic trading, to web platforms and toolkits, and has most recently been driving the Firm's DevOps efforts. He currently leads the Morgan Stanley Developer Environment (MSDE) organization which is responsible for driving developer productivity and delivering key elements of the DevOps pipeline and tool-chain.

Within the Firm's Institutional Securities Tech division, Dov led the delivery and architecture of the Firm's award-winning Matrix electronic trading, pricing and analytics platform, serving the Institutional sales and trading desks and the Firm's clients. He has been directly involved in the creation and execution of the Firm's broader strategy around client-facing technology, and infrastructure needed to support it. Prior to leading Matrix, Dov created a web platform Application Infrastructure team, and was responsible for internal collaboration products.

Dov holds a BSc in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from New York University.

Robert Coletti

Gold Director

Robert Coletti

Gold Director

Robert Coletti is Head of Desktop Platform for Refinitiv, leading the global team responsible for the Eikon platform and customer experience. His group also leads the Refinitiv open platform strategy, collaborating with customers and partners to deliver more interoperable and collaborative financial desktop platforms to enable workflow. Robert has over 20 years of experience various roles in product, business, and strategy launching successful products and growing their adoption at scale in financial communities. Prior to Refinitiv, Robert started his career in product and software development roles at start-up and engineering firms outside financial services. Robert holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Brian Ingenito

Executive Director

Morgan Stanley

Brian Ingenito

Executive Director

Brad Levy

Gold Director

Brad Levy

Brad Levy is managing director, head of Processing and chief executive officer of MarkitSERV, the firm’s post trade service for OTC derivatives. He also leads Markit’s trade management services for the syndicated loan market, including Markit Loan Settlement, the most comprehensive loan trade settlement service, and Markit WSO, portfolio administration software and services catering to the complex lifecycle requirements of loans. He joined the firm in 2012 to manage Markit’s distribution businesses including Markit Hub, Research Manager and Desktop. Prior to Markit, Brad worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. From 2000 until 2012, he was a managing director in Goldman’s Principal Strategic Investments Group. Brad began his career at Lehman Brothers. Brad has served as a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Technology Committee in addition to the Board of Directors of APX Inc., BondDesk, BrokerTec Futures Exchange, CDS IndexCo, FXall, LoanX, NYSE Liffe US, SecuritiesHub, SwapsWire, Tradeweb and US Futures Exchange. He holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the State University of New York at Albany.

Kim Prado

Vice Chair, FINOS

Managing Director, Global Head of Client Insight, Banking & Digital Channels Technology

Royal Bank of Canada

Kim Prado

Managing Director, Global Head of Client Insight, Banking & Digital Channels Technology

Kim Prado heads the Global Client, Banking & Digital Channels Technology group across Capital Markets at the Royal Bank of Canada. She has been at RBC for over 12 years supporting the business in various capacities from running Global Production Services to Head of Fixed Income Sales and Credit Trading technology. Currently, her role includes managing all aspects of client technology delivered through an active and passive data strategy, digital transformation initiatives and an enhanced user experience.

Prior to joining RBC, Kim ran the API Connectivity Development team at ICAP and was part of the initial launch of BrokerTec. She has also held multiple technology positions across the street with Deutsche Bank, Mizuho and Chase Securities.

Colin Eberhardt

Technology Director

Silver Director

Scott Logic

Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt is the Technology Director at Scott Logic, a UK-based software consultancy that creates complex applications for financial services clients. Colin is an avid technology enthusiast and prolific technical author and speaker on a range of technologies. Colin has been actively involved in the open source community for more than 15 years and spends his evenings contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts and learning as much as he can.

Jamie Jones

Principal Architect

GitHub

Jamie Jones

Principal Architect

As GitHub’s Principal Architect, Jamie helps organizations adopt modernbest practices (including Open Source software) in a compliant and securemanner. He supports Github’s Regulated Customers and all of the NorthAmerica business portfolio.

As a former software developer, technical lead and project manager in ahighly regulated environment, Jamie has helped countless businesses evolvetheir development processes through agile transformation, Innersource, opensource, and leaving Subversion behind for good. He has authored numerouswhitepapers and guides relating to secure open source development as wellas adopting Inner Source techniques in regulated environments.

Jamie and his family live in Alexandria, VA. When he's not closing pullrequests, he enjoys history and hiking with their dog, Franklin.

John Madsen

Co-Head of Technology

Goldman Sachs

John Madsen

Co-Head of Technology

John is global co-head of the Enterprise Platforms team. He serves on the Technology Executive Leadership Group. Prior to joining the Technology Division to assume his current role in 2014, John led the Securities Division Core Strats team. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 as an associate on the FICC Core Strats team and was named managing director in 2008 and partner in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, John worked for several Internet start-up companies and pursued a PhD in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers University. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Wesleyan University in 1992.

Eran Barak

Chief Operating Officer

Symphony LLC

Eran Barak

Chief Operating Officer

Eran has a talent for building a widely successful business. Over the past 20 years, he has held senior leadership positions at several companies, including VocalTec, CellGlide, Thomson Reuters and Amdocs, where he helped build them from the ground up.

Russell Green

Managing Director

Deutsche Bank

Russell Green

Managing Director

Russell Green is a Managing Director, and the Global Head of Architecture, at Deutsche Bank AG. He spent time as a software engineer in a number of industries before focusing on software architecture and system design in the Financial sector. His current focus is on ensuring that Deutsche Bank has a well-articulated IT Strategy across all business lines and a supporting technology approach. This includes the impact and adoption of new technology trends to increase the efficiency and reduce the costs of the organisation. Russell is a post doctorate of Imperial College where he studied Physics.

Nick Kolba

Gold Director

Nick Kolba

Gold Director

Nick is the co-founder and chair of the FDC3 program in FINOS. He has an extensive background in product, technology, and open source leadership and has served in a wide range of roles over the past 20+ years - most recently, as CPO and CTO of OpenFin. Prior to OpenFin, Nick was a technology director at Thomson Reuters, leading the creation of Eikon App Studio and serving as a key advocate for web and open source adoption within the Eikon platform. He holds a BA in philosophy from Bard College.

Tom Sugden

Managing Director, CTO of IB Technology

UBS

Tom Sugden

Managing Director, CTO of IB Technology

Tom leads the technology team that makes UBS Neo, the bank's award-winning digital banking platform.

Governing Board

meet our board

board meeting minutes

2019 Q2 - 2019-05-01 - London

2019 Q3 - 2019-07-17 - NEW YORK

2019 Q4 - 2019-10-23 - NEW YORK

2020 Q1 - 2020-01-22 - LONDON

2020 special call - 2020-02-19

2020 Q2 - 2020-04-22 - REMOTE

2020 Q3 - 2020-07-15 - REMOTE