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.

Varghese previously leveraged his enterprise and corporate experience within the start-up community across various industries. He engaged with executives, boards, and investors melding strategy, business development, alliances, sales, and marketing to accelerate growth through evolving stages of the company.

Before venturing out on his own, Varghese was Senior Vice President at NYSE Euronext (acquired by ICE) responsible for its financial cloud, hosting, network and managed services business at NYSE Technologies.

He was also the Global Head of Financial Services at Savvis (acquired by CenturyLink) where he led strategy, marketing, business development, alliances and solutions for the business unit. Before Savvis, Varghese held several leadership roles at Thomson Reuters. He also worked at Smith Barney’s market data and trading services team.

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.

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.

She has extensive knowledge of employment law and global practices and has effectively led HR teams in the U.S., Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Previously, Lyuba served as Chief People Officer and a member of the Senior Leadership Team at RelSci LLC. Prior to RelSci, Lyuba served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Ullink following their acquisition of NYFIX and Metabit, establishing their global HR infrastructure.

From 2009 to 2015, Lyuba was Managing Director of HR and a member of the NYSE Technologies executive team, leading the HR function across the U.S. and Asia. She also led due diligence and integration efforts for multiple global acquisitions. Prior to NYSE, Lyuba was HR Generalist for AIG from 2004 to 2009. She began her career in 2001 with the American Red Cross in the role of HR Generalist for the 9/11 Recovery Program.

Lyuba is an alumnus of Hunter College where she earned her Bachelor of Science, and attended the Executive Education Program at INSEAD.

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.