Dean Stamos – Chief Executive Officer
With almost 20 years of financial industry experience, Mr. Stamos has a successful track record of founding rapidly growing financial brokerage and technology businesses. From early in his career on the Boston Stock Exchange, first with Herzog Heine & Geduld and later as head of execution services for Cowen & Company, Mr. Stamos’ operations achieved great success applying technological innovation correctly positioned around specific industry trends.  Upon leaving a successful and highly profitable operation at Cowen, Mr. Stamos joined NYFIX to become Founder and President of its newly created Millennium group - the first Listed ATS - where he developed Millennium order types, structured the partnership of industry leading Broker/Dealers who would form the core of its users, and lead the ATS to its successful launch and critical volume mass in late 2001. Today, the Millennium ATS executes on average 60,000,000 shares per day and is recognized as the first “dark” liquidity pool. From NYFIX, Mr. Stamos would, as CEO of the public company Vie Financial, engineer the successful turnaround of the remnants of a merged OptiMark and Ashton Technologies and manage the sale of that company to Piper Jaffray, where he became the head of Piper’s Algorithmic & Program Trading group. Most recently, and before leaving to found and launch InfoExchange, Mr. Stamos served as Managing Director of Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Advanced Financial Applications and President of its affiliate Broker/Dealer.

 
Joseph Cammarata – President
Mr. Cammarata began his financial industry career 15 years ago when he joined a small brokerage firm to manage their NASDAQ trading, communications and hardware infrastructure. Within the year, he had joined Datek Securities as a trader- a position that highlighted his unique technical background and trading aptitude- which ultimately led to the development of the first NASDAQ market order macro keys and later, after recognizing the opportunity for internalization, the fostering of an idea that would later become the Island ECN. In 1996, Mr. Cammarata joined the then two-person operation known as Datek Online using his unique computer, trading and internet experience to launch an operation that would, in the next 12 months, grow to 300 employees and result in the sale of the online brokerage firm to Ameritrade for just under $1.4 Billion.  Prior to the sale, Mr. Cammarata had assumed the role of Head Trader at the Datek Online, responsible for the oversight of all trade executions. In 1998, Mr. Cammarata founded Sonic Trading and as CEO, architected the system that would serve as its core product. Recognized for its innovative query handling, superior market data processing, and all-around reliability, the Sonic system served more than twenty-four Institutional clients and Broker/Dealers before being acquired in 2004 by the Bank of New York. Since the acquisition, Mr. Cammarata has served as Managing Director for BNY Brokerage and its spin-off BNY ConvergEx in strategic planning and development and most recently in the development and operation of its newly announced ConvergeEx Cross.

 
Chris Stangel – Chief Operating Officer
Chris Stangel has over a decade of financial services and technology industry experience specializing in sales, client service and product development.  Mr. Stangel began his financial career in marketing for the Pacific Stock Exchange.  For Cowen & Company's San Francisco Execution Services operation, Mr. Stangel was instrumental in bringing in key accounts, helping the operation achieve dominant execution services market share on the SF trading floor within a year of the operation's start up.  As SF Equities Floor Manager for SG Cowen & Company, he lead one of the division's most profitable regional trading floor operations.  As sales manager for the newly launched NYFIX Millennium, Mr. Stangel promoted the first Listed ATS and earliest "Dark Pool" trade matching system to key client accounts, playing an an active role in convincing clients to act as consistent liquidity providers in the innovative new trading system. At Vie Financial Services, one of the first brokers to offer agency algorithmic trading services to the Street, Mr Stangel developed and managed some of the firm's largest and most profitable accounts.  In 2005, with the sale of Vie Financial to Piper Jaffray, as Vice President of Sales for the Algorithmic & Program Trading group, Mr. Stangel managed clients and channel partner sales, with particular emphasis on the hedge fund market.  As Vice President of Product Development for Advanced Financial Applications, a hedge fund trading and portfolio management solution, Mr. Stangel lead the development of multi-asset class trading and portfolio management and other key performance advancements in the system, resulting in a more robust, marketable platform.

 
 
Mr. Cohen started his career in the technology world by forming his own company at age 14. He provided tech support, custom software solutions, customized hardware, and networking services to a variety of professional clients and companies. He maintained the company throughout his years at Rutgers, Chubb Institute, and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He stepped into the political arena two years ago and served as chief technical advisor on two campaigns, one for the House of Representatives, and one for a mayoral election. In his last corporate job, he reported directly to the CTO as lead programmer for WeGuardYou.com who specialized in high end security solutions for large companies (generally corporate headquarters) and estate homes.