Meet the Experts
Raj Mahajan, president, SunGard Trading Business
Raj is a talented SunGard executive who has demonstrated his ability to successfully grow businesses, while maintaining satisfied clients and motivated employees. Today Raj oversees SunGard’s Trading businesses, delivering mission-critical trading systems while identifying new growth opportunities for SunGard, as well as its customers. Raj has proven to be very effective at marshalling his team to understand and respond to customer needs. He joined SunGard in 2004 with the acquisition of Kiodex, a company he founded and grew to its current position as the leading global provider of commodity trading and risk solutions. Prior to Kiodex, Raj held several executive positions at Goldman Sachs & Co. as an investment banker and principal investor. During his career at Goldman, he helped to launch Goldman Sachs Power, the firm’s electricity trading and risk group, and was part of the team that founded Orion Power Holdings, a Goldman Sachs portfolio investment company.
Satish Mujumdar, chief operating officer, Brass - SunGard Trading Business
Satish Mujumdar has been an experienced and valued executive at SunGard for seventeen years. As Brass’ chief operating officer, Satish brings over twenty three years of information technology expertise to the SunGard Trading business, eighteen of which was spent in the financial industry. Satish holds a breadth of experience in executive management, managing P&L, operations, technology development, strategic positioning and efficiency execution. With an extensive knowledge of Global equity and a solid technical background, Mr. Mujumdar has demonstrated to be a focused individual with a proven track record.
Ralston Roberts, svp, Assent Liquidity Services - SunGard Trading Business
Ralston Roberts is senior vice president and general manager of SunGard's Assent Liquidity Services. In this capacity, he has responsibility for shaping the strategic direction of all SunGard solutions for liquidity management as well as defining new product offerings and integration opportunities across SunGard product lines. Prior to joining SunGard, Mr. Roberts served as the chief technology officer at Wells Fargo Securities based in San Francisco where he was responsible for selecting and implementing technology solutions for the firm’s trading operations, research, and investment banking as well as overseeing vendor relationships. Prior to that, he was trading desk application manager at Robertson Stephens, where he was responsible for supporting both in-house and third party equity trading systems and involved in designing a proprietary system for listed and sales traders. Mr. Roberts also previously was a technical business analyst at Franklin Templeton.
Andrew Cinquina, executive vice president, Brass - SunGard Trading Business
Andrew Cinquina is an executive vice president for SunGard’s Brass brand, with overall responsibility of the development and quality assurance process for the Brass product suite. Andrew has been running the development organization at Brass for 4 years and has recently been given the responsibility for Quality Assurance. Prior to joining SunGard, Andrew spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs where he held a variety of development positions working in Goldman's equities trading technology, most notably managing Goldman's global order management technology. Andrew holds a B.S. in Finance and Information Technology and M.B.A in Finance and Management, earning both degrees from New York University
John Krog, senior vice president, SunGard Trading Business
John currently leads the pre-sales efforts of SunGard's Trading, working with product management to find the best solutions for North American broker dealers. Mr. Krog has over 10 years of trading systems experience developed in product management, client service and implementation roles, with expertise in institutional sales trading, block facilitation and market making workflows and trading desk compliance. Prior to joining a SunGard Trading predecessor, Mr. Krog was an equity trader and market maker for 5 years at several West Coast regional and boutique broker-dealers, including Gruntal & Co and Hambrecht & Quist. Mr. Krog earned a Bachelors of Science in Economics with a Business Minor from The Pennsylvania State University and previously held FINRA Series 7, 63, 55, and 24 qualifications.
Chris Lees, vp, Assent Liquidity Services - SunGard Trading Business
Chris Lees is a vice president of Liquidity Services at SunGard Trading, responsible for the launch and management of the Assent ATS. Mr. Lees has extensive experience in the financial services industry with a focus on designing and building equity trading platforms. Prior to SunGard, Mr. Lees was the product manager of Euro Millennium at NYFIX where he was responsible for launching the Millennium dark pool to Europe. Mr. Lees also worked in the Business Strategy office within HSBC Global Markets division, where he managed to implementation a number of global equities front-office projects. He has held the position of product manager at the London Stock Exchange, responsible for developing international market trading, and previous to that he served as the Head of Market Development at NASDAQ Europe.
Peter Hauser, president, MicroHedge - SunGard Trading Business
Peter Hauser is the president of SunGard's Microhedge business unit, responsible for strategy and development of the options analytics platform. Mr. Hauser joined SunGard in sales in 1999 and was promoted to president in 2000. As an expert in equity options, Mr. Hauser continues to evolve MicroHedge, a listed equity, index and futures options trading platform, to meet the changing landscape of options trading, including the market data tsunami, penny pricing and protfolio margining.
Prior to joining SunGard, Mr. Hauser held positions in sales with A-T Financial Information, Inc. and worked as a trader at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation. Mr. Hauser holds a BA in political science and East Asian studies from Wittenberg University.