Leadership

Rob has hands-on experience in various capital markets roles, including trading, securities/prime finance, building SaaS business models, market structure, quantitative trading, software development, and software M&A.

He founded four successful companies as a technology entrepreneur using both Software & Data-as-a-Service models. He was a founding employee of two mathematically/statistically driven trading businesses at bulge bracket financial institutions.

Rob’s enthusiasm for global financial markets and desire for team building, client interaction, and partnering lead him to collaborate with Francisco Partners and acquire TradingScreen and Imagine Software, forming TS Imagine in May of 2021.

Rob is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

His primary focus is on accelerating the growth of TS Imagine’s SaaS cloud-based software platform across the financial services community.

Andrew was involved in the ground up development of electronic trading businesses at both Goldman Sachs (1998-2004) and Deutsche Bank (2004-2019) and has extensive experience coordinating diverse global teams across sales, trading, product development, risk and compliance.

At Deutsche Bank Andrew was a Managing Director fulfilling multiple leadership roles including Global Head of Execution Services and Client Strategy, Global Head of Electronic Trading and EMEA Head of Equity Trading. He was a member of the European and Global Equities ExCo; chaired global and regional forums for sales, strategy, risk and regulatory oversight; served on the EMEA Equity Capital Commitment Committee 2012 – 2018; acted as business sponsor for MiFID 2 delivery and was Equities Account Captain for several of Deutsche Bank’s largest clients.

Andrew has an ACA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales and a Bachelor of Social Sciences and Economics from Cardiff University.

Daryl also has extensive community engagement and has served for several years on the board for the Exceptional Artist Foundation; last year, he joined the board of Money.net after its acquisition.

Prior to joining TS Imagine, Daryl held a number of senior financial and operational positions within Financial Technology and Capital Markets, with both publicly listed and privately-owned companies. Daryl was SVP, Principal Accounting and Administrate Officer since September 2013 for LivePerson, a large SaaS company focused on B2C messaging. Prior to joining LivePerson, he was with GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. as the CFO and Treasurer from November 2011 to September 2013. In addition, Daryl had served as the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller from December 2009 of GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. in its successful IPO. From August 2006 to December 2009, Daryl served as Director of Finance at L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. and their rollup in the acquisition of 13 companies and listing on NYSE. From April 2005 to August 2006, Daryl served as Assistant Corporate Controller at Viisage Technology, which merged into L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. in August 2006. Daryl served at The Macgregor Group as Corporate Controller, from July 2001 to April 2005, which was acquired by Investment Technology Group. Daryl started his career at Ernst & Young LLP.

Daryl is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He received an M.B.A. and M.S. in Accounting from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Business Administration in Finance from Stonehill College.

His primary focus at TS Imagine is leading strategic cross-departmental, cross-product initiatives to enable rapid commercialization of new ideas within the SaaS platforms.

Between 2004 and 2014, Thomas managed strategic, transformative initiatives for hedge funds, pension plans, hedge fund administrators, asset managers, wealth managers and proprietary trading desks at banks. He successfully streamlined trading, portfolio management, securities processing and risk management using technologies like Murex, Front Arena or Kondor+.

Recognized as a data practitioner within the financial industry, he collaborated with the EDM Council on the data management capability assessment model (DCAM) and the cloud data management capability model (CDMC) to help standardize data management. Based on these standards and best practices, Thomas assessed, implemented, and enhanced data management capabilities to transform financial institutions into data-driven organizations through the use of ML, NLP, RPA, cloud and knowledge graphs.

Thomas holds a degree from the HTBLA Leonding, Austria in Computer Science and Business Administration.

He has over 20 years of experience in the electronic trading industry and additional experience as a systems architect and developer in the aerospace industry.

Prior to joining TS Imagine, Chris served as an assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, where he was responsible for the design, development and maintenance of its equity order management and real-time position systems. During his tenure at Merrill Lynch, he 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 Earth Observing System (EOS) project. He contributed to the design and development of a massively distributed data management system used to collect, process and archive the enormous streams of data from NASA’s earth sciences satellites.

He received a Bachelor of Science in computer science from George Mason University.

Dr. Smith brings a rare combination of business and academic experience to his role as CEO, with thirty-plus years of direct involvement in trading and risk management practices, mathematical modeling, and system development. 

Dr. Smith has a PhD in mathematics, and is a former Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, as well as a former Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute.  He began his finance career at Salomon Brothers in 1986, where he served as the chief quant for the equity derivatives business.  He then headed Sakura Global Capital’s Equity Derivatives Trading desk, prior to founding TS Imagine in 1993.