Christopher J.A. Messina
CEO and co-founder

Mr. Messina has deep, international experience in the capital markets, private equity and financial technology. He was formerly Managing Partner of Mannahatta Partners, LLC, a New York-based specialist financial services advisory firm. Prior to co-founding Mannahatta Partners in October 2006, Mr. Messina was the Chief Operating Officer for the Global Futures and Managed Funds business at ICAP plc. Mr. Messina has advised NYSE Euronext and the Qatar Investment Authority on the development of the Qatar Securities Market, has performed private equity due diligence for global investment firms, has been a strategic consultant to McKinsey & Company and developed a corporate governance factor fund and data service in Australia with Corporate Governance International.

He has worked with Goldman Sachs in New York and Goldman Sachs JBWere in Australia in operational risk, proprietary investments and quantitative research. While at Goldman Sachs in 1999, he was part of the team that created BrokerTec Global, the fixed-income inter-dealer broker that was acquired by ICAP in 2003. He was also part of the team that created the BrokerTec Futures Exchange, later sold to Deutsche Borse as Eurex US.

Mr. Messina has worked extensively in the Islamic finance markets since 2000, has advised both corporate industrial clients and Islamic banks and asset managers on sukuk and various other Shariah-compliant financing techniques. In addition to serving clients in these markets, he has lectured extensively at leading international conferences and at law schools at the request of both private sector banks like EFG-Hermes (Egypt) as well as public sector entities such as the World Bank.

Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Messina spent three years in industrial sales in Africa. He has an AB in Anthropology with a concentration in Islamic History from the University of Chicago, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and an MBA in Finance from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Messina is a member of Business Executives for National Security.



William A. Lupien
Co-founder and co-inventor of RPC

William A. Lupien has been active in the securities industry since joining the California-based brokerage firm of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Inc. (MJT) in 1965. Mr. Lupien serviced as chairman and CEO of MJT, while also a specialist on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange for 17 years. He was a Nasdaq market-maker for 5 years.

Upon leaving MJT in 1983, Mr. Lupien served as president, then chairman and CEO of Instinet Corporation, and was responsible for Instinet's move into trading Nasdaq stocks. During Mr. Lupien's tenure, Instinet's trading volumes increased tenfold, its revenues increased seventeen-fold, and the company was acquired by Reuters Plc.

Mr. Lupien established OptiMark Technologies, Inc. in 1996, an innovative new technology to improve the structure and operational capabilities of the securities market. He is co-inventor of OptiMark's patented trading technology, a revolutionary method of structuring markets for securities and other fungible items. OptiMark holds several patents to this end.

Mr. Lupien has served on numerous private and public company boards including Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Instinet, National Health Enterprises, Energy Metals Corporation, Uranium One, Midway Gold, Potash One, Beaufield Resources, and others. He also held a position as Trustee of the Securities Industry Institute and the Securities and Exchange Commission National Market Advisory Board as well as being a Governor of the Pacific Stock Exchange for 6 years.

Mr. Lupien is the co-author along with David Nassar of Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading which was published in 2004 by McGraw Hill.

Mr. Lupien is currently a private investor and a financial equity market consultant.



John T. (Terry) Rickard
Co-founder and co-inventor of RPC

Dr. Terry Rickard has 36 years of experience in technology and financial organizations, all of it in management and technology development positions. His engineering technical expertise includes signal processing, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy and expert systems, and graphical knowledge representation and inference for machine intelligence. He has additional expertise in several financial engineering disciplines, including transaction systems, market structures, financial analytics, data mining, derivatives pricing, risk analysis and trading strategies.

Dr. Rickard has served on the board of directors of three companies, one of which is a public reporting company. He is currently a board member of Skyler Technology a company specializing in ultra-low latency trading software for the financial industry. In addition to these activities, he consults for companies in the defense, financial and mining industries and develops proprietary trading algorithms for his own investment account.

Dr. Rickard has authored numerous technical publications in several branches of engineering, and in the fields of electronic market structure, matching algorithms and trading strategies, which have appeared in refereed technical journals, books and conference proceedings. In addition, he has authored several issued patents and current patents pending.

Les Halpin

Director

Les Halpin began his career working for Barclays Bank, British Gas and Lloyds Bank International. He then joined Record plc, a specialist currency management company, in 1984.  During his employment with the company, Mr. Halpin served in numerous capacities culminating in his appointment as Chief Executive.

Mr. Halpin was involved in the management buy-out of Integrity Treasury Solutions in 1996, and spent a number of years in Chicago focusing on sales and marketing for the business in the Americas as well as other global responsibilities as CEO, prior to its sale to SunGard in 2005.

Mr. Halpin remained a non-executive director of Record plc until its floatation on the LSE in 2007, and has been an active investor in a number of private companies including RDF Media plc which went public in 2005.

Mr. Halpin gained a first class honours degree in Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research from  the University of Exeter, which he followed with an MBA in Finance with distinction from Cass Business School, London.  In addition to his commercial interests Mr. Halpin is involved in a number of charitable projects and is on the Advisory Board of Exeter University Business School.