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.

Spencer brings extensive market structure experience and client perspective to TS Imagine. He most recently co-founded Agilon Capital, a systematic credit hedge fund with a strong technology value proposition. Prior to Agilon, Spencer led global credit electronic trading and West Coast fixed income trading at Blackrock.

Spencer earned a BA from Vanderbilt University, where he majored in European Studies. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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.

Renee has hands-on experience leading proactive, strategic communications campaigns for large, multi-national banks and other financial institutions. She spent 13 years at Deutsche Bank, where she led media relations and communications in the Americas throughout the regulatory shift that followed the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Renee also led business development, research, and client advice for private equity, crypto, trading firms, banks, and other segments of the capital markets while at Edelman, the world’s largest communications firm.

Renee graduated from Connecticut College where she earned a BA in English Literature.