Executive Management

Brendan joined FD in April 2010 and has 20 years experience in the architecting and delivery of IT systems to the telco and financial services sectors. He has operated at senior levels in several Systems Integration, IT Consultancy and Technology Start-up companies. Brendan formerly held the position of VP Market Data Technologies at NYSE Technologies and prior to that was instrumental in the rapid success of Wombat Financial Software as VP Engineering, heading up the global R&D and support group.

Catherine joined FD recently having spent 17 years in a client facing, professional services role. Most recently Catherine worked as a Director within PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory practice where she delivered a range of services to a diverse client base. She currently has responsibility for all HR and Training related matters in FD and contributes to the continuing professional development of the entire FD team. Catherine holds a BSc in Finance from Queens University and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Jamie joined FD in 2003 after completing a degree in Mathematics and Physics at Warwick University. He spent several years in consultancy roles in London and New York, specializing in high frequency market data and algorithmic trading, before returning to base to join the product development team. His current position is Chief Software Architect for the Delta product suite.

John joined FD in early 2010 and has 15 years experience in the design and building of e-Trading platforms. In his current role, John is responsible for delivery and global support of the FD RealSteam suite of products. He also has overall responsibility for the Dublin operational centre. John formerly held the positions of Head of Product Management and most recently Head of R&D at Cognotec. John holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a BA in Business Management from Liverpool University.

Patrick joined First Derivatives in 1999 after completing a Law degree at Queen's University in Belfast. With over 10 years’ experience in the Financial Software Industry he has operated at a senior level on a wide variety of consulting projects during his time with First Derivatives, across such diverse business lines as Credit Risk, Fixed Income, Equities and various Hedge Funds.

Sean joined FD in January 2010 as part of the acquisition of Cognotec where he was Director of Technology and has over 15 years experience working in various senior roles in Enterprise Technology, Product Management and Sales. Prior to that he was a Senior Product Line Manager for Siebel System, prior to its acquisition by Oracle delivering retail banking financial solutions. Sean holds a BSc in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin and an MSc in Computer Applications from Dublin City University.

Victoria joined FD in 1997 after completing an Engineering degree and MBA at Queens University Belfast. She has worked in a number of consulting roles at FD over the years and is now VP Business Development.

Keith joined First Derivatives in July 2011 and has more than 15 years experience in delivering key solutions to the financial services sector. Prior to First Derivatives, Keith held senior roles at Calypso Technology where he managed the professional services throughout EMEA (Europe, UK, Middle East, Africa) and also Asia Pacific. With his keen understanding of capital markets trading and operational environments and the technologies necessary to implement complex solutions, Keith has spent much of his career setting the implementation vision with client stakeholders as to how to best derive value from their strategic third party technology investments. In his role, Keith is responsible for providing implementation and support solutions with the directive of steering clients towards long term stability of usage in relation to their 3rd party trading technology systems.

Dale joined FD in June 2010 and has 25 years experience in the software sector and the data/information industry. His previous positions include Chief Data Officer, President Enterprise Data Management (EDM) & Executive Vice President of Corporate Business Development at SunGard. Prior to SunGard he was President & CEO FAME Information Services, a leading global software and managed data services vendor in Energy and Financial markets.

John joined FD in February 2010 and has 25 years experience of e-Trading. He is responsible for expanding the company’s e-trading products and presence within the financial services sector. Prior to joining the company, John managed global business development for Cognotec’s e-Trading products and services. Prior to that he spent 10 years as a senior executive at Citigroup as part of a management team responsible for creating and deploying electronic trading services, including the EBS broking service.

Ken joined FD in January of 2010 with over twenty years of capital markets experience with clients who include many of the top global investment banks and asset managers. His work has included business strategy development, architecture definition, and implementation management of large scale global initiatives across the spectrum of equity and fixed income trading applications. Prior to joining First Derivatives, Ken held positions at m.a. partners, Technology Solutions Company, and Accenture. Ken has a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Marc Odho joined FD in August 2010 with the acquisition of LakeFrontData, he is responsible for providing clients with consulting, advisory, implementation services and expertise in all aspects of Data Management, including “managed services”. Marc has more than 20 years experience building and operating large-scale, commercial multi-asset reference and market databases. Previously, Marc was Managing Director of SunGard Enterprise Data Management, independent senior consultant to a major Risk Software Vendor, Stock Exchange and Wall Street firms. Managing Director for technology and market data at CIBC World Markets, and Senior Vice President at Reuters, responsible for database production, data quality control and software development to support product strategy. Founding member of the EDM Council in 2005.

Bret joined First Derivatives in January 2011 and has over 15 years of sales and sales management experience in the financial technology and data industries. Before joining the company, Bret was a Senior Director at GoldenSource, achieving record sales levels for the firm. Prior to that, he spent 5 years as the Vice President of Sales at Scivantage, growing the annual revenue by a multiple of ten.

Rob Hodgkinson has worked in Information Technology, developing software in financial markets with a focus on financial mathematics, for over thirty years. In 1992, together with Paul Phillips, Rob co-founded Financial Market Software Consultants (FMSC) and they developed the Automated Securities Trading System, a distributed, memory based order matching system, which was sold to many securities exchanges throughout the world including Shanghai, Jakarta, Moscow, Montreal, Istanbul, Oslo, Helsinki, Budapest and many others. The system now exists at XStream, marketed globally by Nasdaq OMX. Rob is currently a director of First (Australia) Pty Ltd, working with kdb+, the fastest and most widely used in-memory tick capture database globally. Rob has extensive experience in array programming languages, traditional programming languages, and relational database management systems and performance optimisation for high volume transaction processing systems.