Company

Philippe Buhannic
Co-founder, Chairman, & Chief Executive Officer

Philippe Buhannic revolutionized the trading space with the introduction of the industry’s first execution management system (EMS) 14 years ago – he coined the term for this type of platform on his personal blog in 1998. Since then, Philippe built TradingScreen into a universal platform for global trading, which includes the largest EMS in the world, with more than 1,700 users worldwide.

Philippe has kept the focus of TradingScreen^® on finding innovative ways to make global markets simple. In 2011, TradingScreen^® launched another product breakthrough in this vein, with the introduction of TradePrime.^®

TradePrime^® is a platform that incorporates all the key workflows needed to operate a hedge fund – from execution management (EMS), position collection, to risk, pricing, compliance services and OMS – right out of the box, delivered via a cost-effective software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. TradingScreen’s^® TradePrime^® is revolutionizing the alternative asset management industry by resolving one of the most difficult challenges hedge funds face: the complexity of integrating the trading-focused EMS, the position- and performance-focused OMS, and the administrator information into a seamless, intuitive workflow.

Philippe serves as Director of Futures Industry Association, and he has more than 20 years of management, marketing and technical industry experience and is a widely recognized authority on electronic trading and customer information systems.

Prior to TradingScreen^®, Philippe served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in New York. While at CSFB, he worked in the fixed income unit, where he handled listed derivatives, prime brokerage and e-commerce. Buhannic was also responsible for creating and implementing CFSB’s e-commerce products including the “Prime Family” that includes PrimeTrade, PrimeClear, Prime Brokerage and PrimeFund –all of which received industry acclaim as the first successful attempt at global distribution of electronic, multi-asset asset class transaction processing via the Internet.

Prior to joining CSFB, from 1993 to 1995, Philippe was Chairman and CEO of Fimat Futures USA Inc., a subsidiary of Societe Generale of France, and a member of the board of the Fimat Group. Philippe redeveloped the firm by combining innovative marketing and leading edge technology products, establishing Fimat as a major, profitable player in the US market. From 1987 to 1993, he was the deputy Chief Financial Officer of Credit Commercial de France, where he oversaw the global marketing of short-term FX and interest rate products.

Brian Nadzan
Chief Development Officer

Brian Nadzan has over twenty years of product development in the financial services industry, having spearheaded development in electronic trading, position keeping, P&L and risk management, compliance and STP.

Prior to TradingScreen^®, Brian was a Director of Development at Lava Trading from 2005 to 2009. Brian was responsible for development and product direction for Lava’s global multi-asset Buy Side Trading products, which included electronic trading, market data, and referential data across Equities, Options, Futures, and FX asset classes.

Prior to joining Lava, from 1992 to 2005 Brian was a Managing Director at Bloomberg LP. Brian was responsible for development, support, and product direction of all trading applications at Bloomberg, including POMS, TOMS, and SSEOMS. Brian was also responsible for all electronic trading, portfolio analytics, compliance, and enterprise management applications during his career at Bloomberg.

Brian holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and currently is a member of NJIT’s College of Computing Sciences Board of Visitors.

Chris Kingsbury
Chief Architect Officer

Chris Kingsbury joined TradingScreen^® in the year 2000 and currently occupies the Chief Architect Officer role based in Tokyo. Previous to his present appointment, Chris headed TradingScreen's^® Development Group from 2002. Chris has over fourteen years of experience in the electronic trading industry and additional four years as systems architect and developer in the aerospace industry.

Prior to joining TradingScreen^®, Chris served as an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, where he was responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the company’s Equity Order Management and real-time Position Systems. During his days at Merrill Lynch, Chris also contributed to the architecture and development of the firm’s global Portfolio Management system.

From 1994 to 1997, Chris worked as a developer on NASA’s EOS project, helping design and develop a massively distributed data management system used to collect, process, and archive the enormous steams of data from NASA’s earth sciences satellites.

Chris’ proven experience comprehends the design and development of all trading system components, distributed systems, and object oriented design and analysis. He received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science from George Mason University.

Graham Harman
Global Head of Client Services

Graham Harman has over twenty-five years international experience in the financial markets. He began his career in 1981 as a stockbroker at Montague, Lobel, Stanley & Co. In 1984, he took up the role of Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch in its London Fixed Income division where he stayed for almost five years.

Harman joined Bloomberg in 1989 and spent over sixteen years in senior sales, marketing and customer service positions in Europe, Asia and Australia, becoming a managing director in 2000 and then global business manager in 2004.

Following his tenure at Bloomberg, Graham became director of customer services at Wall Street Systems/Trema in 2006 and subsequently joined FXall as Senior Director – Head of Services EMEA with responsibility for FXall’s European customer service and relationship management teams for three years prior to his appointment at TradingScreen^®.

John Gross
Chief Financial Officer

John Gross has over thirty years experience as a senior financial executive with broad CFO public and private company experience across several industries including technology, entertainment, consumer products and new media.

Following three years at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, John spent ten years at PepsiCo (PEP) in a variety of positions in both planning and control, with his last position being Controller of Pepsi USA. He subsequently joined Cadbury Schweppes as CFO of their U.S. confectionary business where he led the divestiture of the business to Hershey Foods. He also served as Controller of Readers Digest Association.

In addition to his large company experience, John has held several CFO positions in smaller, entrepreneurial environments, often as the first CFO, leading the establishment of best practices in planning and control. He spent five years as the first CFO at FactSet Research Systems (FDS) in preparation for their IPO, and subsequently returned as Vice President of Corporate Development.

For the five years prior to joining TradingScreen^®, John was the CFO for Majeso Entertainment (COOL) where he helped lead the turnaround of the company.

He holds a B.A. in English from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Jon Andrews
Global Head of Infrastructure

Jon Andrews joined TradingScreen^® in the year 2000 and is the Global Head of Infrastructure responsible for the engineering and operations of the Network, Server platform technology, Database Systems and Security.

Prior to joining TradingScreen^®, Jon worked for Credit Suisse in the Global Unix Engineering team where was responsible for managing the Unix Operating System which was deployed globally across 3,500 of the banks key trading systems.

From 1993 to 1997 Jon worked at Churchill Insurance as a key member of the team that delivered the first Cray running a commercial mission critical database on Solaris in the UK and helped to deal with scaling Churchill’s rapidly expanding business on Unix platforms from Pyramid Technology.

Jon served in the Royal Air Force from 1983 – 1989 working on mission critical aviation systems on the Tornado GR1 aircraft before joining GEC Plessey Telecoms and embarking upon a career in Computing Systems with over twenty years of experience.

Jon received a Masters Degree (MSc) in Computing Science from Birkbeck College, University of London.