Appital

Meet the team

Big picture thinking meets decades of experience

• Mark Badyra

  Founder, CEO

  Prior to launching Appital, Mark worked with the UBS Equity Capital Markets syndicate desk, successfully placing multiple IPOs and follow-on transactions across sectors. He began his career at Bank of America as a Foreign Exchange Analyst before moving to Debt Capital Markets.

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• Pete Correia

  Co-founder, CTO

  Pete led teams from startups to big corporations, building complex data-driven products within the financial services, business consulting and Internet of Things industries. Former clients include Xively (acquired by Google), Barclays, EY, Commerzbank, AlixPartners, Aimia and Access Fintech.

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• Brian Guckian

  CBDO

  An experienced equity markets specialist and sales trader with a 25 year track record, Brian most recently founded Astrum Partners, a placement agent for alternative funds. Brian was formerly in Global Equities and Private Equity for Tradition (TFS) and Head of Sales and Sales Trading for SEB, in addition to working with Nordic banks in London early in his career.

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• Stephane Carty

  CFO

  Stephane has more than 24 years investment experience in trading and financial derivatives. He founded Fir Post Capital, a global volatility fund in 2010 and subsequently Blackheath Capital Management. Previously he was head of European Principal Strategies at Wachovia Bank, and his early career included trading both agency and proprietary books at Commerzbank, Lehman Brothers and Bankers Trust.

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• Marlon Richards

  Head of Operations and Integrations

  An operations and integrations leader with 20 years’ experience in trading operations, technical integrations and product development. Prior to joining Appital, Marlon was the API Product Manager at MarketAxess. Earlier in his career Marlon held various roles at banks and hedge funds including SAC Capital, Severn River Capital, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse.

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• Katherine Jones

  Product Lead

  Kat has a decade of experience working in product roles within the capital markets and fintech space. She started her product career at Thomson Reuters and has since managed multiple pre-trade & trade products with a focus on user experience. Most recently Kat worked in the crypto industry.

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• Matt Jefford

  Head of Liquidity Solutions

  An experienced capital markets specialist with a long track record in multi asset voice and electronic trading. During the course of his career Matt has worked at a number of leading agency brokerage operations where he was responsible for providing high and low touch solutions in trading, liquidity solutions, trade analytics and technologies to his customer base.

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• Sam Mulube

  Principal Engineer

  A technical leader with over 10 years experience in delivering successful IT engineering projects. Prior to joining Appital, Sam was a partner and CTO for Umbrellium Ltd and its spin out, Thingful Ltd, working on Internet of Things (IoT), and urban technology projects. Earlier in his career Sam was Senior Engineer for Xively (later acquired by Google).

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• Gosia Flood

  Lead Product Designer

  Gosia has over 10 years of experience in designing user-centred products and brands across financial services, public services and more. Prior to joining Appital, Gosia launched and scaled innovative businesses with venture builder BCGDV. Earlier in her career she worked for a consultancy specialising in end-to-end digital transformation in global markets, as well as for a brand performance agency.

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• Mike Wharton

  Head of Data

  Mike started his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Numis, and most recently lead teams of technology consultants at a variety of firms including Great Portland Estates, Schroders, IG Group and Amlin.

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• Alix Richards

  Lead Frontend Engineer

  Alix is a frontend engineer with over ten years experience. Prior to joining Appital Alix was a Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway. Earlier in her career she worked at agencies Dare and then Zone where clients included Electrolux, Greene King and the RSPB.

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• Adam Curtis

  Lead Platform Engineer

  Adam has worked as a senior software engineer for over 10 years with experience in email marketing automation and med tech software on large scale distributed systems. Prior to joining Appital, Adam worked as a Lead Engineer at Medichecks architecting software systems to integrate with pathology systems.

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• Marco Bresciani

  Senior Backend Engineer

  Marco is a senior software engineer with over 10 years experience in the fields of e-commerce, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. He has previously worked with a number of luxury brands and startups such as Thingful Ltd and Shapes AI where he developed innovative solutions for global data providers, social media and cloud platforms.

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• Soledad Kuczala

  Backend Engineer

  Being self-taught Soledad kicked off her career working in open-source by taking part in Openstack, the Cloud Computing platform started by Rackspace Hosting and NASA which today has more than 500 companies contributing and supporting it including Red Hat, Microsoft, Facebook, and IBM. Later she was trained in operations to deliver agile CI/CD pipelines and worked in the development of backend systems for videoconferencing.

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Our board and advisors

• Greg Bennett

  Board Member and Chairman

  As the former Head of Capital Markets for EMEA and the Americas for Fidelity International he has first-hand experience of the liquidity challenges faced by the buy-side. In addition he brings sell side expertise gained as Partner and Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets and Equity Syndicate for Cazenove and JPMorgan Cazenove.

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• Shay Garvey

  Board Member

  Shay is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures and one of the most active and experienced early-stage technology investors in Europe. Shay has had a wide and varied career – with experience at corporates Exxon, Corning and McKinsey, startups Glentara and Irish Seafood Producers Group, and venture capital with Delta Partners before co-founding Frontline.

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• Matt Palmer

  Board Member

  Matt is an award-winning financial services Chief Information Security Officer, and Board Member and Chair of Audit at industry regulator the Jersey Financial Services Commission. He has built and led global commercial, tech and cyber security functions across retail banking, capital markets, fund administration and insurance - most recently as CISO and then Senior Director at global risk advisor Willis Towers Watson.

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• Dermot Shortt

  Board Advisor

  Dermot has over 25 years of capital markets and asset management experience gained at global banks and as a successful entrepreneur. He joined UBS Investment Bank in 1994 and worked in various roles across quant, technology and sales, including running ‘UBS Delta’, a technology focussed team, for 10 years. Dermot then co-founded Finbourne Technology in 2016, which specialises in advanced financial software for the investment management industry, where he remains Chairman.

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• Graham Hobson

  Board Advisor

  Graham is an experienced entrepreneur who has held a variety of senior roles including CTO, board member, investor, social impact supporter and advisor. In 2000 he created Photobox which grew to become the largest personalisation company in Europe. He started his career in finance working for the London Stock Exchange, Baring Securities and UBS.

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