OASIS PRO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Engineer Building
- SENIOR BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPER
Allan is a smart contract engineer building secure applications on decentralized ledger technology. Prior to Oasis, Allan worked as a smart contract engineer at Masa Finance.
Job Titles:
- Head of Administration
- HEAD of BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Bob serves as the Head of Administration at Oasis Pro Markets. He has over 25 years of capital markets experience at Credit Suisse, Bank of America, and Royal Bank of Canada. He has deep knowledge of front-to-back processes across Fixed Income and Equities products and has served as COO and Controller for front-office business units and support organizations, including technology divisions.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in bulge bracket and boutique firms, including startups, covering research, capital markets & investment banking, foreign/domestic/algo trading, compliance, and stock surveillance. Chris is a cum laude graduate from Quinnipiac University with a BS in Finance.
Douglas joined Oasis Pro Markets as the Chief Compliance Officer. He has over 20 years of capital markets compliance experience at Commonwealth Financial Network, ACA Compliance Group, FINRA, Fidelity Investments, and others. He has a deep knowledge of compliance and regulatory affairs due to his time at FINRA.
Evangelos is the SVP of ATS Services at Oasis Pro Markets. Evangelos' core capabilities include new product development, trading platforms technology and project management. Prior to Oasis, Evangelos worked at GAIN Capital for over ten years in varying capacities, including head of the Project Management Office and head of Retail Trading Platforms. Evangelos also worked at JP Morgan Chase on the Project Delivery team for the Broker Technology services group, Bank of America as the Online Platform Development Manager, and Sloan Securities as the Director of Operations.
Gareth is SVP of ATS Operations at Oasis Pro Markets. He has a career spanning in excess of 25 years. He started his career with Natwest and Credit Lyonnais before pivoting into Retail FX and Crypto sales and trading with the likes of Saxo Bank and GFT (Gain Capital). Prior to joining OPM, Gareth embarked on the strategic set up and roll out of a new online regulated efX and Crypto firm as COO in Cyprus.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Enterprise Technology
Gaurav is a vice president of Enterprise Technology. Prior to Oasis, Gaurav worked at the Hartford as Director of Claims IT Strategic Development. Gaurav is a leader in Global Information Technology with significant insurance industry experience that combines strong business acumen with broad technical knowledge to effectively select and implement technology solutions that advance business objectives, reduce costs, and improve customer experience. His insurance industry experience spans across both private and commercial line of business.
Job Titles:
- Head of Marketing & Communications
Jillian is responsible for developing and implementing strategic marketing initiatives for Oasis Pro. She joined in 2023 bringing over 8 years of experience with strategic marketing and brand initiatives for both traditional and digital-first financial institutions. Jillian previously served as Director of Growth Marketing at Arca where she spearheaded the deliberate and tactical execution of integrated marketing campaigns positioning the firm as a leader in digital asset investing. Prior to Arca, she held various marketing positions at BNY Mellon, Redgate Real Estate Advisory, and Rocaton Investment Advisors (now Goldman Sachs).
Jim is a financial markets expert and Big 4 CPA with deep blockchain experience covering CeFi, Reg. Policy, Bitcoin, ETH, Layer 1&2's, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, Tokenization, and Web3 Infrastructure. Jim has also founded and operated several blockchain startups and holds a patent for a pioneering technique to broadcast blockchain digital rewards over sound that is secured on web3 wallets. Additionally, he has led global project delivery efforts for fixed income, equities and derivatives trading systems at prestigious institutions like UBS, RBS, Credit Suisse, and several investment management firms.
Job Titles:
- VP of Legal
- VP, Legal & Compliance Strategies & Initiatives
Junnette is VP of Legal & Compliance Strategies and Initiatives for Oasis Pro Inc. and its affiliates. Junnette has over 10 years' experience in securities law and regulation. Over the course of the last 10 years, Junnette has worked in securities litigation, served as a senior examiner for FINRA, headed the broker dealer registration and compliance department at ACA Group and thereafter went in-house to build a start-up broker dealer, for which she achieved the first FINRA approval for copy-trading. She is at the forefront of broker dealer novel and complex business models, including digital asset securities. Junnette holds a BA from Hunter College and JD from Hofstra University School of Law.
Laura is the Administrative/Executive Assistant at Oasis Pro Markets. Prior to joining Oasis, Laura specialized in business relocation services where she assisted business owners in identifying replacement locations and filed relocation claims per State/Federal guidelines. Laura is fluent in Spanish as a second language.
Job Titles:
- TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST MANAGER
Marcin has over 5 years of experience in IT and software development, including product management, quality assurance, agile, scrum, and business analysis. Marcin was responsible for ensuring the development of various products, implementation of development processes, and management of product roadmaps.
Michael joined Oasis Pro Markets as VP of Deal Execution. Michael has a broad range experience across the digtal asset space, he was Co-Founder of Okra Finance, Head of Business Development at Cook Finance, Head of Tokenization at Atomyze, and Project Manager at Gemini. He began his career at traditional financial institutions including Bank of America, HSBC, RBS, Scotia Bank, and Barclays.
Pat is a dedicated, driven, and highly successful CEO, Executive Leader and global Fintech and digital transformation leader with over 25+ years of experience building and managing winning teams in investment banking, corporations, and private equity with a passion for inspiring teams through visionary leadership and creation of value. Throughout his career, he has taken on complex leadership challenges, including in highly regulated industries, and has a proven successful track record of delivering results in senior roles, including senior investment banker, corporate executive, financial and operating executive, founder, corporate advisor, private equity and fund investor, and public/private company board member. Additionally, with a senior role at Igneio/MakerDAO Foundation he has a unique blend of skills combining long-standing traditional finance background with a deep experience in decentralized finance/crypto/blockchain sectors.
Pat has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt placements, high yield transactions, and IPOs, leading teams on over $15 billion of deals globally and leading groups at Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns, Inc. (now JP Morgan), amongst others. His responsibilities included all facets of deal origination structuring and deal execution. His industry areas of focus primarily include FinTech, Technology, Financial services, Blockchain, Media, Healthcare/Biotech, and Business Services companies.
As a recognized thought leader, Pat is, through television interviews and print media, a recognized expert and frequently been quoted by numerous media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg News, etc.. Pat is also an invited speaker/panelist to many global conferences and webcasts such as Structured Finance Association, Association of Investment Management, SALT, etc. as well as been involved in 100+ panels on webcasts etc..
Also, Pat has served on the board of directors of several public and private companies and also has had past roles on several advisory boards/non-profit boards including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Council Member of the NYSE Amex Listed Company Council, the DTCC Executive Advisory Board for Private Securities (working group), etc..
Pat received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania major in Finance and a concentration in Strategic Planning. He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Clark University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Pat is a Wharton Ambassador.
Job Titles:
- SVP of Capital Markets
- SVP, CAPITAL MARKETS & STRUCTURED PRODUCTS
Shelly joined Oasis Pro Markets as SVP of Capital Markets. She has over 20 years of capital markets experience at Jefferies, Freddie Mac, Lone Star Funds, and others. She has a deep knowledge of RMBS products and served as the SVP & Senior Director of Capital Markets at Jefferies and Freddie Mac, respectively.
Thomas joined Oasis Pro from Bakkt where he worked on the institutional custody and liquidity operations team. He worked closely with Bakkt's blockchain security and engineering teams to develop, test, and support their proprietary systems. Prior to Bakkt, Thomas worked for BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory team.
Tucker joined Oasis Pro Markets after graduating from the University of Alabama. He has experience at UBS Wealth Management Americas working on the Strategic Partnerships Team. With the Strategic Partnerships Team Tucker was tasked with building and utilizing strategic relationships to create business opportunities between partners and compile value add presentations and external speakers for the use of the larger UBS workforce both internally and for external conferences.
Viren is an eminent entrepreneur with extensive experience in Blockchain, Tokenization Platform, Public and Private Blockchain technologies. His recent work with GE and The Hartford as the Head of Blockchain and Architecture and an Emerging Technology Leader. Viren brings more than 24 years of experience in information technology within the financial services and investment management industry. In addition to his financial services expertise, he has leadership experience in the insurance industry, Cloud Services, architecture, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and product management.
Walker joined Oasis Pro from Portfolio Advisors where he worked on the marketing/investor relations team and helped raise a $2.8b Secondary Fund and a $750m Direct Co-Investment Fund. Walker was also responsible for completing DD requests, RFPs, Cash Flow analysis, DDQs and ad-hoc requests. Prior to Portfolio Advisors, Walker worked for Canaan Partners, a Venture Capital Firm, and Bentley Associates L.P., a boutique investment bank.
Wes joined Oasis Pro from RSM where he was the National Lead Blockchain Technical Resource and founding member of RSM's National Crypto and Blockchain Team. In his role at RSM, Wes was responsible for developing and managing relationships with external digital asset partners. Wes also provided education for the team through live classes as well as authoring an AICPA Level 2 course on how to audit the blockchain. Additionally, Wes wrote tax memos, position docs, and oversaw / performed calculations around digital asset taxation.