Dr. William Guttman - Chairman

Dr. William Guttman is Special Advisor to the Provost of Carnegie Mellon University, and Chairman of iCarnegie, Carnegie Mellon's for-profit education company; he previously co-founded Cylab, one of the world's largest University-based research initiatives focused on dependability and security in software and networked systems. Bill has been instrumental in a variety of University tech transfers; most recently he co-founded the video search software company, Panopto, whose board he also chairs.

Guttman is also Investment Partner and leads the financial technology practice at Philadelphia-based TL Ventures. In addition to his investing activities on behalf of TL, he has founded, co-founded, or held other leadership roles in more than a dozen institutionally-backed ventures - serving as chief executive at several of these, including Printcafe (NASDAQ: PCAF), a 500-person software developer acquired by Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII).

Earlier in his career, Dr. Guttman served in advisory capacities for the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He is the author of Pacific-Asian Capital Markets (OECD/Oxford & IBH), Between Bailout and Breakdown: A Modular Approach to the Latin American Debt Crisis (Center for Strategic and International Studies), US Telecommunications Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S. Agency for International Development), along with other publications and patents. Bill completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar.

John H. Eley - CEO of Pivot, Inc.

John H. Eley is the CEO of Pivot, Inc., the leading provider of Instant Messaging and liquidity management software to the capital markets and derivatives trading community. A 20-year veteran of the financial services and financial technology industries, John recently has focused on companies that improve market structure or trading efficiency in a variety of asset classes. Beginning in 2002, he served as President and CEO of Hotspot FX, Inc., the leading online foreign exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by Knight Capital Group in 2006. Previously, John was the CFO of OnExchange, a futures industry software provider, and worked in a variety of senior positions with Cantor Fitzgerald/eSpeed and Citibank. John serves as an outside board member and/or advisor to several private companies and is a guest lecturer at the Columbia University School of Business.

Peter Sibirzeff

Peter Sibirzeff was CEO of Alphacet from Nov 2007 to Sep 2011. Over the last 25 years, Peter has held senior executive management positions in several highly successful financial trading and technology companies in both Europe and the US, responsible for board and shareholder activities, corporate strategy, business operations including sales, administration, risk functions and all regulatory and compliance. Prior to joining Alphacet he served as Managing Director of Orc Software, Inc., where he successfully restructured and revitalized the company's North American operations. He is also part of the founding team of two US registered broker dealers and one UK FSE registered exchange.

Roger Portnoy - CEO of Alphacet

Roger Portnoy is the founder and owner of Starting-Right.com Limited, a specialist strategic consultancy serving high growth financial technology and content entities. Starting-Right has advised and fulfilled special projects for many of the leading application software and infrastructure vendors serving the world's most prestigious investment banks, hedge funds, and investment management firms.

Prior to creating Starting-Right, Roger was a Director for Thomson Financial Services. At Thomson, Roger was one of the senior partners in the venture practice, and initiated over more than a decade the development of new transformational businesses for the investment banking, publishing and real-time markets group. Roger began his career in investment banking, helping UBS develop and expand its fixed income proprietary trading and capital market research practice. Roger received a B.A. with Honours in philosophy and Japanese studies from Colgate University.