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.

D Dehghanpisheh

Co-Founder

Protect AI

D Dehghanpisheh

Prior to founding Protect AI, D was the Global Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Solution Architects. His team was responsible for customer facing engineering resources that helped the AI/ML business of AWS become the largest AI/ML business in the world. Prior to Amazon, D was Sr. Vice President of Digital Strategy at Howard Hughes Corporation where D built an industry leading AI platform to price and model economics of illiquid assets using advanced ML techniques in 2015. Previous experiences included Sr. Vice President and Managing Director of Technology and Data Products at NYSE, acquired by ICE in 2013. Prior to NYSE, D was at Intel Corporation for over 12 years where his roles included building the first financial services vertical team and delivering over $1B of annual revenue contribution from the group, Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to the global sales and marketing organization, and a variety of other leadership roles in product, sales, and marketing functions.

Eddie Knight

Chair, FINOS Technical Oversight Committee

OSPO Lead

Sonatype

Eddie Knight

OSPO Lead

Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. As the lead of Sonatype's Open Source Program Office, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software. Eddie is Chair of CNCF's Security Technical Advisory Group, lead developer of the OpenSSF Security Baseline, and serves on the Steering Committee of the FINOS Common Cloud Controls project. When he isn’t working, he enjoys playing ball and rural walks with his son.

Rhyddian Olds

OSPO Lead, Head of UI & Services

Citi

Rhyddian Olds

OSPO Lead, Head of UI & Services

Rhyddian is the Head of UI and Services for Citi’s institutional business, driving innovation in client and non-client facing UI applications. In previous roles at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank he led major transformational programs to create modern Digital UI Platforms including the acclaimed Autobahn Platform. He led the first open source project contribution by Deutsche Bank to the brand new FINOS organisation and went on to serve as the FINOS board director for all three of these Platinum members.

Since joining Cit two years ago, Rhyddian established and now leads Citi’s global Open Source Program Office which promotes open source contribution as an inclusive development pathway for all technology employees. As a passionate advocate of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the benefits of open source contribution, Rhyddian is the FINOS executive sponsor of the FINOS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Open Source Readiness Special Interest Groups.

Sitija Sarkar

Technical Fellow & Managing Director

BlackRock

Sitija Sarkar

Technical Fellow & Managing Director

Sitija Sarkar, Managing Director, runs the Aladdin User Experience Engineering team within Aladdin Engineering. Sitija and her team are responsible for delivering centralized tools and frameworks, including the Aladdin Client Sites, Genie and Aladdin Experience Framework for Web, Desktop and Mobile. Sitija has held a number of roles at BlackRock. Before her current role, She was leading the Web Council across the globe setting web standards for BlackRock. She started as a development lead in the Web Tools and Technology team, previously a part of the Aladdin Product Group, where she specialized in a variety of solutions and products such as Social Security Tool, a US retirement tool, Model Portfolios, and other retail BlackRock Websites/tools. She joined BlackRock in 2012 as a software developer for BlackRock.com website and became the development lead in 2014. Prior to joining BlackRock, Sitija has been part of organizations like Sapinet, Xerox. She earned her Bachelors in Technology (Computer Science) from an esteemed university in India.

Madeleine Dassule

Chair, FINOS

Senior Managing Director, Partner and Co-Head Technology

Wellington

Madeleine Dassule

Senior Managing Director, Partner and Co-Head Technology

As Co-Head of Technology, Madeleine jointly leads the global department responsible for all technology for the firm and oversees over 500 employees. Madeleine’s focus areas are overall strategy as well as the technology platforms for portfolio implementation, global trading, legal and compliance, and regulatory. Madeleine is chair of the Technology Strategy Board, vice-chair of the Trading Policy Review Group, and a member of the Americas Compensation Committee and the Risk Committee.

Before joining Wellington Management in February 2006, Madeleine worked at Goldman Sachs in New York managing the NYSE and Listed Trading Systems. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a manager at Accenture in the Financial Markets practice. Madeleine moved to the US from her native France to attend Columbia College, where she earned a BA in mathematics. Her bilingual education at an international school in France enabled her to develop fluency in both English and French. Madeleine serves as a board member for Boston City Singers.

Gabe Hege

Enterprise Products

Nvidia

Gabe Hege

Enterprise Products

Sergei Komarov

Managing Director & Head of Architecture

JP Morgan

Sergei Komarov

Managing Director & Head of Architecture

Sergei Komarov is a Managing Director & Head of Architecture at JP Morgan Chase.

He is the former Group Chief Architect for National Australia Bank, a divisional CTO for Barclays, divisional Chief Architect for PayPal, and CTO of several start-ups. Throughout his career Sergei has been a strong advocate for open-source software and its role in the enterprise.

Sergei holds a graduate degree in Mathematics.

Kim Prado

CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and office of the COO

BMO Capital Markets

Kim Prado

CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and office of the COO

Andy Smith

Distinguished Engineer

Discover Financial Services

Andy Smith

Distinguished Engineer

Andy Smith is a Distinguished Engineer at Discover Financial Services with over 20 years of experience building products, leading engineering and open source engagements. Andy has served in board/leadership roles of several open source organizations for member organizations including OpenSocial, jQuery and JS Foundation.

Bhupesh Vora

Vice Chair, FINOS

Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services

RBC

Bhupesh Vora

Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services

Bhupesh has over 20 years’ experience working in the front office trading technology for some of the world’s leading investment banks. Beginning his career at Barclays working across Infrastructure, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income and Credit Derivatives, he moved to Lehman Brothers for 4 years in 2005 before returning to Barclays where he held a number of senior management positions and was to inevitably head up Credit, Municipal and Securitized Products Technology alongside running Trade Capture across Markets. He subsequently left Barclays to take on the opportunity as Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services at RBC in July this year. With deep expertise in risk, analytics and electronic trading and passion for technology, Bhupesh has continued working closely with innovators in the FinTech space to build forward looking platforms in Investment Banking.

Philip Holleran

Field CTO - Americas

GitHub

Philip Holleran

Field CTO - Americas

Based in Minnesota, Phil serves as the Americas Field CTO for GitHub and is passionate about helping organizations improve their software velocity and adopt open source software and practices.
When he's not working to help development teams he can usually be found in the kitchen, playing board games with his kids, or spending time skiing and biking small midwestern hills

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.

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global Financial Services

Red Hat

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global Financial Services

Aric serves as the Chief Technologist in Red Hat's Global FSI team, where he helps clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technology. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large, digital transformation projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division and was co-founder/CTO of several FinTechs in equity and FX trading.

John Mark Walker

Director, Open Source Program Office

Fannie Mae

John Mark Walker

Director, Open Source Program Office

John Mark Walker has been a strong advocate of open source communities for over 2 decades while leading open source strategy at Capital One, Dell, and Red Hat, before joining Fannie Mae in 2021. In recent years, John Mark has focused on how enterprises can work together with open source communities and software ecosystems to help them thrive and sustain high levels of innovation.

Mike Cave

Director of Technical Programs & Operations

Hedera

Mike Cave

Director of Technical Programs & Operations

Dov Katz

Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer

Morgan Stanley

Dov Katz

Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer

Dov Katz is a Managing Director and Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley. He has been at the Firm for 21 years, and has been involved in a wide array of technologies ranging from instant messaging, to client facing electronic trading, to web platforms and toolkits, devops, and developer experience. He currently leads the Morgan Stanley Software Developer Experience organization, responsible for providing toolchains, libraries, and expertise to support the Firm’s more than 15,000 developers.

Dov has been an active board member of FINOS since its inception, serving as Chairman in 2020.

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

Alex Mysak

Director of Sales, Financial Services - Enterprise

Databricks

Alex Mysak

Director of Sales, Financial Services - Enterprise

Alexandra Mysak is the Director of Sales, Financial Services - Enterprise at Databricks. She is a sales leader driving growth of the Financial Services business vertical for Databricks - the SaaS platform for data + AI. Enterprise advisor on cloud, big data & advanced analytics. This is complemented by an initial 15 years in Financial services (Goldman Sachs 12 years, Standard chartered 3 years) within Capital Markets and Corporate Banking. Deep understanding of financial services workflows on both buy side, sell side, investment banking, consumer banking & capital markets.

Will Rothwell

Distinguished Engineer

UBS

Will Rothwell

Distinguished Engineer

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