Meet
Capitolis

Gil is the Founder and CEO of Capitolis.

He is a serial entrepreneur and CEO in financial technology with a successful record of creating disruptive products and companies and leading them through global scaling.

Prior to Capitolis, Gil was the CEO of EBS BrokerTec, NEX Group’s (formerly ICAP’s) foreign exchange and fixed income electronic markets business. He also served as a member of ICAP’s Global Executive Management Group.

Before EBS BrokerTec, Gil was the CEO of Traiana, a post-trade processing company he founded in 2000. Gil led Traiana’s growth from a small start-up to a recognized global leader, resulting in Traiana’s acquisition by ICAP in 2007 for $250M. A Kellogg School of Management business case study was written about Gil and the success of Traiana.

Gil has been a member of the New York Federal Reserve’s Foreign Exchange Committee, the Bank of England’s Joint Standing Committee, and the Bank of Canada’s Foreign Exchange Committee. He was awarded the e-FX achievement award by FX Week in 2012 in recognition of his lasting contribution to the development of the FX industry, and in 2013 he was inducted to Profit & Loss Magazine‘s Hall of Fame. In 2015 and 2016, Gil was named to Institutional Investor’s prestigious Trading Technology 40 list.

Gil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Sociology from Tel Aviv University (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master of Business Administration degree (With Distinction) from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. In 2012, Gil was the Keynote speaker at INSEAD’s graduation ceremony.

Tom is a Co-Founder of Capitolis and the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

He is also a Managing Partner of Angelic Ventures and Co-Founder and Executive Chair of BlueVoyant LLC. Previously, Tom worked at Reuters Group PLC and its successor company, Thomson Reuters Corp, serving as CEO during his last 11 years at the news and professional information provider. Prior to this, he was an M&A lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Paris and Tokyo.

Additionally, Tom is a director of Merck & Co. (Chair of Compensation Committee), Morgan Stanley (Lead Director), Publicis Groupe, K2 Intelligence and the Atlantic Council; and a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic and various alumni boards at Columbia and Yale Universities.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Government from Columbia University.

Justin is the President of Capitolis responsible for driving overall business initiatives, product development and operations.

Prior to joining Capitolis, Justin was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse where he led the US Rates Structuring team and was responsible for developing, executing and monitoring strategic and tactical business lines for the firm’s macro franchise. Before Credit Suisse, Justin worked in the Cross-Asset Solutions and Strategies Long-Term Investor group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he developed, marketed and executed cross-asset structuring and solution distribution to institutional clients. He started his career in financial services at Deutsche Bank developing, marketing and executing structured rate and commodity business lines globally.

Justin received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Igor is a Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, and the Head of Professional Services at Capitolis, responsible for onboarding and product implementation for Capitolis clients.

Igor and his team work directly with clients to understand and meet their technology requirements, test new releases with their users and provide them with ongoing support. Prior to building Capitolis’ Professional Services team, Igor served as the Head of Engineering at Capitolis where he developed and launched the firm’s initial products and technology.

Before co-founding Capitolis with Gil Mandelzis and Tom Glocer, Igor was the Head of Innovation for the post-trade division of ICAP where he and his team launched ICAP’s blockchain initiative. Igor was also the Executive Vice President of Engineering for Traiana, a leading post-trade processing, workflow and credit risk technology firm, which was acquired by ICAP in 2007. Whie at Traiana, Igor and his team were responsible for developing all Traiana products including Harmony and CreditLink.

Igor started his professional career in 1998 as a developer at an Israeli-based hedge fund where he developed and launched the fund’s proprietary FX and futures trading technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

lllit is the Chief Business Development Officer at Capitolis responsible for sourcing and finding partners to embed Capitolis technology into their platforms to extend reach. She is an experienced senior executive and serial entrepreneur in the global financial technology market.

Prior to Capitolis, Illit was the Founder & CEO of TradAir, a disruptive technology start-up introducing OTC markets to a sophisticated pricing engine and trading solutions. At TradAir, Illit successfully led the company since its inception in 2010 through global scale, fundraising and growth. She presently serves as a member of TradAir’s board of directors.

Before founding TradAir, Illit was the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Traiana. She joined Traiana in 2000 and focused on expanding the business into new markets, developing products and building strategic alliances in the global capital markets. Illit helped spearhead the launch of Traiana’s flagship solution, Harmony, and established the firm’s partnership with EBS BrokerTec around NetLink, ultimately leading to Traiana’s acquisition by ICAP in 2007. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the firm’s Financial Risk Consulting business in New York, where she focused on technology implementations dealing with credit, operational and counterparty risk projects.

Illit holds a degree in Business from Boston University (Magna Cum Laude).

David is the Chief Risk Officer for Capitolis Inc. as well as the Chief Compliance Officer for Capitolis Partners and Capitolis Advisors. He is also instrumental in product development and assessment at Capitolis.

David joined Capitolis in 2017 from State Street where he was a Managing Director and the Global Head of In-business Risk Management for the firm’s Trading and Clearing businesses, including GlobalLink and the FCM. Prior to State Street, he held several senior risk management roles at Morgan Stanley for over a decade, as a quantitative specialist in their Fixed Income Modeling group assigned to the CVA desk and as a risk manager for the OTC clearing business. David began his career in finance in 1997 at Citigroup where he served in a variety of positions focused on risk management, eventually exiting Citigroup as the Global Head of Risk Analytics managing the group responsible for the analytics necessary to measure counterparty exposure for all derivatives products.

David co-chaired a sub-committee of the New York Federal Payments Risk Committee focused on CCP risk while at Morgan Stanley and State Street and was a member of various CCP risk committees at Morgan Stanley.

He has a background in physics and holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Alberta.

Ben is the Global Head of Sales at Capitolis where he leads the firm’s global sales, relationship management and market development efforts.

Prior to Capitolis, Ben was a Sales Director at EBS BrokerTec, ICAP, Traiana, Blue Curve and Front Capital Systems. He has extensive experience managing global and regional sales teams and selling financial technology solutions, including market data, risk management, research distribution, trading, post trade and execution to financial institutions over the last thirty years. Ben has managed both large sales teams with billion-dollar sales targets and small sales teams at fast growing start-ups. His most notable successes have been establishing Front Capital Systems in the UK, helping Blue Curve become a market leader in the field of research distribution, and building Traiana’s client base from start-up into a major supplier in the UK and Asia.

Ben holds a degree in Computer Science from Sheffield Hallam University.

Amos Arev is Vice President of Engineering at Capitolis.

Prior to his role at Capitolis, Amos was Vice President of Research and Development at LawGeex, a company focusing on AI in the legal industry. Amos has more than 20 years of experience leading efforts across research, development and technology, in data-driven companies transforming the way industries operate.

Amos holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Jessica is a Vice President and the Global Head of Marketing and Communications at Capitolis.

An accomplished and award-winning 18+ year market veteran, Jessica has extensive experience developing and leading marketing efforts at fast-paced starts-ups including Reval, FundQuest and Envestnet and at larger enterprises including Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters, J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas.

Prior to Capitolis, Jessica was the Global Head of Marketing Strategy at Refinitiv, formerly the Financial & Risk Business of Thomson Reuters, where she developed marketing strategies that drove commercial value and retention for the firm’s trading, investment management, investment banking and wealth management businesses, leading a team of the firm’s most senior marketing professionals. Prior to that, as a senior marketing leader with J.P. Morgan, Envestnet, BNP Paribas, FundQuest and Reval, Jessica played instrumental roles to build brands and drive revenue through brand and product marketing efforts.  She has won awards for Best Financial Services Marketing Campaign from the Drum B2B Awards and Best Brand Refresh from the MarCom Awards and Communicator Awards for her work over the years.

Jessica originally started her career as a broker at Fidelity Investments. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree concentrating in Economics and is a member of the Women’s Bond Club, Wall Street Women’s Alliance and Women in FX.