Management

Roy Agostino, Managing Director

Roy Agostino is a seasoned high technology executive with 20 years of leadership experience spanning both the financial services and technology sectors. During his tenure at Marketcetera, he has been responsible for product management, pricing, business development and establishing Marketcetera's open source community. Prior to his role at Marketcetera, Roy also held leadership roles at network optimization firm Packeteer, systems management start-up Integrien and SOA industry leader iWAY. Roy was instrumental developing real-time business intelligence solutions for the financial services industry while VP at Information Builders, and he acquired 10 years of international leadership experience at global consumer packaged good leader NIKE, Inc. Roy studied Arts at the University of British Columbia and Marketing at Pace University in New York.

Advisors

Toli Kuznets, Co-Founder and Advisory Council Member

Founder Toli Kuznets brings extensive software development, client implementation and technical consulting expertise to Marketcetera's Advisory Council, with experience in start-up environments and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to co-founding Marketcetera, Toli implemented automated trading systems at a hedge fund in New York. Before that he was the first engineer at CenterRun, where he developed deployment software for large server-center applications. The CenterRun product now forms the basis of Sun's N1 datacenter automation and provisioning product suite. Toli holds masters and bachelors degrees in computer science from Stanford University, with a concentration in human-computer interaction.

Graham Miller, Co-Founder and Advisory Council Member

Marketcetera co-founder Graham Miller has over 10 years of experience in the finance and software industries, most recently serving as the director of electronic trading strategies at a hedge fund in New York City. Prior to that Graham worked for Jane Street Capital, making markets in equity options on the floor of the American Stock Exchange and directing electronic trading efforts. During his tenure on Wall Street, Graham oversaw the development of several high-throughput black box trading systems for equities, options, ETFs and futures. Before joining Jane Street Capital, he assisted in the development of several products and companies at Reactivity, a software incubator turned network security company, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. Graham holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from Stanford University, with a concentration in artificial intelligence.

Chris Grandi, The Abacus Group

With more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, Chris joins Marketcetera as a strategic advisor for hedge fund technology and investment services. Grandi has spent the past year founding a new company called The Abacus Group which provides high level strategy and consulting services to hedge funds and other investment firms. Prior to this he completed a seven-year tenure at Eze Castle Integration where he served as managing director of business development and then president.

Larry Stefonic, SVP MySQL

Larry Stefonic brings more than 19 years of experience in the computer software industry to Marketcetera as a strategic advisor for open source platforms and business strategies. Stefonic most recently completed a seven-year tenure at MySQL AB where he drove dramatic business growth that ultimately led to the company’s acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2008.