STRUCTUREIT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Development, New York
Bram joined StructureIt in 2018 to help manage the company's growing product line and North American operations. He began his career in the futures trading pits in New York before moving on to nearly two decades of managing content and products for some of the industry's largest and most trusted capital markets data vendors. Over the years he has focused on debt, fixed-income and asset-backed securities, working in New York and Hong Kong.
Job Titles:
- Chief Customer Officer, SA
- Chief Customer Officer, South Africa
Cath started her career in the field of energy and financial risk management software, specialising in credit risk management across both banking and trading products. Having worked in global sales and presales, she went into running the credit and ALM risk management software lines for IBM. Since joining in 2018, Cath has been working on key client relationships and client strategy to oversee the entire engagement with our customers to ensure client delight throughout the customer journey.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Line, SA
- Head of Business Line, South Africa
Dave has been in the software industry for over 20 years having led implementations, managed services and development teams within the telecom and financial sectors. Through the course of his career he has worked within the areas of implementation, business analysis, consulting, pre-sales, solution architecture and project management. He joined StructureIt in 2018 to focus on project delivery and client relationship management, and building happy, delivery-focused teams that put communication at the forefront of ensuring customer satisfaction.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer, United Kingdom
Itay's passion is translating business needs into robust technological solutions, and has been solving problems for clients in the software industry for over 15 years. Before joining StructureIt in 2011, Itay worked in various fields including GIS, backup and synchronization solutions, gaming and social networks. As CEO, Itay's focus is to ensure that StructureIt exceeds client expectations by delivering highly effective technology solutions for companies within the capital markets.
Job Titles:
- Chief Finance, Risk & Operations Officer, UK
- Chief Finance, Risk & Operations Officer, United Kingdom
Josh, a self professed excel nerd, has been working in the accounting and finance industry for 10 years with exposure ranging from audit, financial system design and testing to financial management and financial modelling. Josh joined StructureIt in 2018 to centralise all accounting functions, to provide control and oversight over the Finance Function, ensure efficient allocation of capital and to provide access to key management information in a highly consumable manner.
Job Titles:
- Head of People, South Africa
Kate has been a part of the banking industry since 2005, starting her career within the Information security and trading system production support. Following this, she spent 11 years in the People Function across both the retail and Global Market businesses of a Specialist Bank. Before joining StructureIt, Kate implemented a Corporate Banking platform to allow clients to execute both domestic, international payments and Foreign exchange settlements. In 2019, Kate joined StructureIt to help grow the People Function while focusing on culture and strategy implementation.
Job Titles:
- Co - CEO, South Africa
- Co - Chief Executive Officer, SA
Starting his career within the regulatory arena managing counterparty risk across debt and equity instruments, he has been working with technology within the capital markets since 1997 and has been based in London, Dublin and Frankfurt, before settling in Johannesburg. Llewellyn founded StructureIt in 2006 with Tim, and now acts as a strategic advisor to the StructureIt leadership.
Job Titles:
- Lead R & D Engineer, New Zealand
Matthew has worked in the financial sector for over 20 years, covering areas from stock reconciliations and swap confirmations through to CLO monitoring and modelling solutions. Learning software development on the job at institutions such as Deutsche Bank, he has developed knowledge of both the industry and technology. As well as being a software developer, his duties include overseeing the day-to-day running of the New Zealand office.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Line, SA
- Head of Business Line, South Africa
Mike started his career in London working as a Business Analyst in banking. When he returned to Cape Town in 2000 he joined a life insurance company to assist in building an online unit trust trading platform, and then went on to work there for 12 years in various parts of the business delivering investment and risk products to Wealth customers. He then moved to a short term insurer as a Programme manager delivering a digital distribution channel into their organisation. In 2015 he changed sectors into Retail and delivered a transformational Digital programme for a leading Retailer. Mike joined StructureIt in 2023 and will be focusing on building a future fit team that delivers excellent solutions to our clients.
Having spent over 16 years in the Corporate world, working in the Finance Sector in diverse roles from Marketing to Money Market trading, to Business Development for the Private Clients arm of Nedbank / Old Mutual. Nicola then moved to EY and filled various roles including Business Development in the Assurance space working on Global Pursuits, Change Management, and Strategic Project management. She took a 2-year break when she had her twins and left the corporate world behind her to consult in executive search, then coaching businesses on recruitment strategies. This was her initial introduction to StructureIt and she finally joined in 2021. Nicola is passionate about building and maintaining a people-first culture.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer, SA
- Chief Technology Officer, UK
- Chief Technology Officer, United Kingdom
Pieter is passionate about all things tech and has happily spent over 20 years developing and architecting software solutions in a wide variety of industries ranging from short term insurance to securitisation. Since 2015 he has led a team building and architecting a big data platform for Advanced Mortgage Analytics.. Alongside this as CTO, Pieter's goals are to build great teams with a strong focus on quality deliverables, underpinned with a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement.
Starting his career in the accounting field, Prakash developed a keen interest in operations management, joining StructureIt to set up and run the Mauritius office. His passion for learning new things helped him quickly acquire the necessary knowledge and skills in data analytics and securitisation, building a strong and highly competent team focused on exceptional data quality. Prakash is responsible for the execution of the data strategy.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Development, United States
- Head of Business Development, US
Steve is an industry expert and CFA Charterholder with over 22 years of experience in CMBS, CLOs, and Commercial Real Estate FinTech with firms including Trepp, JP Morgan, and Standard and Poor's. He is passionate about working with customers to create innovative solutions that optimize workflows and solve problems leveraging data and analytics. As a lifelong learner, he loves to explore new strategic opportunities, evaluate disruptive technologies, and develop new capabilities to deliver value to customers.
Job Titles:
- Head of Distribution Technology, United Kingdom
Stuart has been in the financial software industry for over 20 years, spending most of his time developing securitisation solutions. Before joining StructureIt in 2006, he led large development teams on middle- and back-office projects in the FX, money market and risk management areas. He has designed and co-developed several of our products, working closely with clients and partners to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Line, SA
- Head of Business Line, South Africa
Stuart has wide-ranging experience in building enterprise level software. Starting his career as a developer, he has also worked in systems analysis, solutions architecture, business consulting and pre-sales roles. From 2007 he has focused on project management and leading global development, implementation and support teams. Stuart joined StructureIt in 2018 to focus on project delivery and client relationship management.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chief Executive Officer, UK
With over 25 years' experience, Tim's background in securitisation began with modelling some of the first European CLOs at JPMorgan before joining the EMEA Analytics group within the transaction banking division of Deutsche Bank. Tim founded StructureIt in 2006 with Llewellyn, and now acts as a strategic advisor to the StructureIt leadership.