Sassan Danesh has 20 years' experience assisting investment banking institutions to build and remediate their front office trading platforms. Sassan's background combines trading platform design and development experience with deep business domain knowledge in the main flow products of Fixed income, FX and Equities. Sassan's focus is on facilitating change, both within an individual client's organization but especially across the industry. He is passionate about the benefits of open standards and of increased industry collaboration. Prior to co-founding Etrading Software, Sassan worked at JP Morgan for 11 years, building mission-critical high performance trading systems.

 

With 15+ years working within both buy-side and sell-side financial institutions, Yuval Cohen accomplished IT executive with extensive management and leadership experience specializing in systems for cash equities, derivatives (futures, options and strategies), FX and FI instruments. This has included implementation and program management roles as well as detailed technical architecture and software design for complex financial trading workflows, including: Pre-trade, trade and post-trade, including: portfolio construction optimizers, matching engines, exchange gateways, order- management, algorithmic trading, tiering engines and reporting.