GREEN EXCHANGE - Key Persons


Alexander Kontoleon - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
Alex is a former Global Learning Consultant at State Street Bank. He brings 20 years of experience in trade operations, project management, business strategy, and human resources.

Charles Dolan - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
Charlie is the former CEO of Kellogg Capital Markets and a former Executive Floor Governor at the NYSE. He sat on the New Jersey Investment Council and was a member of its ESG investment committee.

Daniel Labovitz - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Dan is the former head of regulatory policy at the NYSE and has extensive experience in interacting with FINRA, the SEC, and other regulatory bodies. He also is an attorney who previously worked at several international law firms.

Hideto Nishitani

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
  • Member of the Advisory Board
Nishitani-san is the former CEO of the US operation at ORIX Corporation (NYSE ‘IX') and the former board member of Houlihan Lokey Inc (NYSE ‘HLI'). He currently serves as a Human Capital Committee member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) in London, in addition to the board position of the two Tokyo-based companies.

James Manfredonia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
  • Member of the Advisory Board
James is the Former Head of Equity Trading at Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns. He is currently a Professor of Finance & ESG at Fordham University and serves on the Covenant House Corporate Board.

Jim Ross

Job Titles:
  • Co - Head Institutional Trading and Market Strategy
Jim Ross has spent 30+ years pioneering new electronic auction venues for both Exchange and ATS markets. Jim ran Instinet's Global Crossing business for many years and later oversaw NYSE's intraday and post-close electronic call auction facilities.

Judy McLevey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Senior Director at the Women Corporate Directors Foundation
Judy is a Senior Director at the Women Corporate Directors Foundation. She is the former Associate Director of the Governance Center at the Conference Board and a former Vice President (ESG and Investor Communications) with the NYSE Global Corporate Client Group.

Marc Iyeki

Job Titles:
  • Listing Sales Advisor
Marc is the former Senior Advisor, APAC - Global Listings at the NYSE and was Chief Representative, NYSE Beijing Representative Office. He was previously the Regional Head for the NYSE's Asia Pacific listings.

Michael Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Trading Infrastructure
Michael is a 40-year veteran of Wall Street and a founding member of Posit. He has built a straight-through processing model and has experience building and leading brokerage firms.

Patrick Craven

Job Titles:
  • Trade Processing
Pat has 30 years of broker-dealer operations experience and has led operations teams at several Wall Street brokerage firms. He specializes in back-office and straight-through processing.

Peter Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Co - Head Institutional Trading and Market Strategy
  • Institutional and Market Structure Expert
Pete Jenkins has been a leading institutional and market structure expert for many years as the head of Deutsche Asset Management's Global Trading Desk and, later, as head of NYSE's Institutional Client Group also serving as a member of the Operating Committee.

Robert Barnett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
  • Member of the Advisory Board
Bob is the founder and Managing Partner at Wexford Capital Partners, LLC, and a board member at Entelligent, Inc. He is a former Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets.

Robert Wotczak

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
Rob is the CEO of Prime Executions, Inc., a NYSE and FINRA-registered broker dealer focused on trade executions and equity capital markets. He is the former President of TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc. and a former Managing Director and Regional Head of Equities for the NYSE.

Scott Budd

Job Titles:
  • Head of Listing Sales
Scott is a business development and sales professional with deep experience in working with C-suite executives, delivering revenue growth, marketing initiatives, product development, establishing agency relationships, and providing key strategic account sales to a diverse range of large and small companies. Scott has been a sales executive at the GLG Institute, the Chief Executive Group, and National Review.

Shelley Goldberg

Job Titles:
  • ESG Evangelist
  • Investment Advisor and Strategist
Shelley is an investment advisor and strategist in environmental sustainability and commodities focusing on impact investing. She brings many years of experience structuring and managing portfolios in the hedge fund arena with a deep understanding of trading, hedging, and asset allocation. She has worked as a Market Strategist for Brevan Howard and Director for Roubini Global Economics. Shelley has also worked as an independent ESG consultant and partner to multiple RIAs, family offices, and hedge funds.

Shiva Rajgopal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisors and Board of Directors
  • Member of the Advisory Board
Shiva is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the Columbia Business School. He is the former Vice Dean of Research at Columbia and formerly taught at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is a contributing columnist at Forbes.com.