Management Team

Philip Z. Weisberg, CFA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Weisberg has been the Company's Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 2000.


Before joining FXall, Mr. Weisberg was a Managing Director at Lab Morgan, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s e-finance incubator, where he worked on the development of various client targeted portal efforts. Mr. Weisberg joined J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in 1989 and held various positions in derivative trading in New York and London before managing currency derivatives globally. Mr. Weisberg has received numerous awards and other recognition, including Institutional Investor's 2011 "Tech 50" list of top innovators in financial technology, FX Week's 2011 e-FX Achievement Award.

 

Mr. Weisberg received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for Science and Art in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and International Business from New York University in 1998.

 

Mark Warms
General Manager, EMEA

Mr. Warms has been with the company since its inception in 2000. Based in London, Mr. Warms is the General Manager and Head of Sales of FXall's European operations.

Before joining FXall, Mr. Warms was a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was responsible for business development in the Global Foreign Exchange department. Mr. Warms' accomplishments at CSFB included the development and successful launch of CSFB's FX prime brokerage business.

Prior to joining CSFB in 1994, Mr. Warms worked at Citibank as an institutional foreign exchange sales representative. Before that he worked for five years in brand marketing for Kraft General Foods.

Mr. Warms received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University in 1987 and an MBA degree in Finance and International Business from The University of Michigan in 1992.  

 

John W. Cooley
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Cooley has been the Company's Chief Financial Officer since its inception in 2000.

Prior to joining FXall, Mr. Cooley was HSBC's Chief Administrative Officer for Global Fixed Income, with responsibilities for planning and strategy, including e-business. Previously, he was HSBC's Managing Director and head of Debt Capital Markets and Syndicate in New York. Before joining HSBC in 1996, Mr. Cooley spent 13 years with J.P. Morgan where he held positions in Fixed Income Syndicate, Structured Finance, Private Placements and Investment Banking.

Mr. Cooley received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Yale University in 1982; and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from New York University in 1987.  

 

James E. Kwiatkowski
Head of Sales, Americas and Asia

Mr. Kwiatkowski has served as the Company's Head of Sales, Americas since March 2007 and added responsibility for Asia in January 2010.

Before joining FXall, Mr. Kwiatkowski worked at electronic trading platform FutureTrade from November 2002 to February 2007, where he led the global sales, services and marketing functions and was responsible for negotiating partnerships with third-party distributors. Prior to FutureTrade, Mr. Kwiatkowski held senior management positions at several financial technology companies including Bridge, where he ran their Global Accounts program, and Reuters, where he was involved in launching Reuters Matching.

Mr. Kwiatkowski received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1986 and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and International Business from New York University Stern School of Business in 1991. 

 

Tom San Pietro
Head of Active Trading

Mr. San Pietro is responsible for leading all aspects of FXall's trading products including Aggregator, Mid Book, Order Book and Bank Stream venues, bringing together the expertise and resources to meet the needs of professional traders and liquidity providers. Mr. Pietro joined FXall from LavaFX where he was Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Pietro has over 15 years of trading technology experience and deep industry knowledge.

During Mr. Pietro's career, he developed and managed FX applications for margin trading, settlement, order management, ecommerce, and prime brokerage.

Prior to joining FXall and LavaFX, Mr. Pietro worked in a variety of capacities either as a consultant, vendor or employee for Barclays Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstien, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase.

 

Steven Zieselman
Head of Relationship Trading

Mr. Zieselman is responsible for defining and implementing FXall's strategy for our workflow based trading solutions. This includes our portfolio trading, request for quote and post trade services. Steven joined the company in 2010. Before joining FXall, Mr. Zieselman was a business development and product manager in Global Link, State Street's multi-asset class e-trading platform. Prior to that, Mr. Zieselman held a variety of operations management roles within State Street.

Mr. Zieselman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University Center at Albany in 1988.


Quito Zuba
Senior Director, Global Head of Trading Operations

Mr. Zuba is responsible for taking FXall's operations to the next level by identifying and implementing process and technical changes to its sophisticated trading infrastructure required to keep up with growth and to remain in compliance with best practices and regulations. Within this role, Mr. Zuba manages FXall's 24 hour global support and services teams to enable them to respond to client inquiries across all FXall products and to ensure system availability meets client expectations.

Mr. Zuba joined the company in 2010. Before joining FXall, Quito spent four years as Head of Global Trading Operations at Instinet. From 2003-2006, he was a Managing Director at White Cap Trading and prior to that, he ran the New York technical operations for Townsend Analytics.

Quito received a BA in History from the University of Utah in 1995.

 

Jonathan Woodward
Head of Asia-Pacific
 

Mr. Woodward is responsible for our regional offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and India. He joined FXall in 2008 to open our Australia Office and has successfully expanded our footprint since his arrival.

Before joining FXall, Mr. Woodward was involved in launching two new equity multilateral trading facilities, Chi-X and Equiduct, in business development functions. Prior to that, he held variety of roles in Asian business development, product management and sales within Global Link, State Street's multi-asset class e-trading platform including FX Connect. Additionally Jonathan worked for Bridge in Asia managing FX, equity, futures & commercial paper trading and information services.  

 

Lenore Kantor
Head of Marketing and Communications

Ms. Kantor oversees advertising, brand management, internal and external communications, including media relations. She works directly with the internal sales, product management, account management and technology teams, as well as our providers and vendors to promote FXall's services and value proposition.

Ms. Kantor's experience in institutional financial services and electronic trading included marketing executive positions at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and The Bank of New York's institutional brokerage business. Most recently, Ms. Kantor was Executive Director of Marketing Communications for Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management business.

Ms. Kantor was previously a Board Member of the Financial Communications Society and received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

James F.X. Sullivan
General Counsel

Mr. Sullivan has been the Company's General Counsel since March 2001. 


Before joining FXall, Mr. Sullivan worked in the legal department at J.P. Morgan, where he most recently represented Lab Morgan, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s e-finance incubator. Previously at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Sullivan served as a transactional and securities adviser with responsibility for public finance, fixed income, emerging markets, complex structured finance and credit and equity derivative products. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Sullivan was an attorney with the law firm of Schulte Roth and Zabel.


Mr. Sullivan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brooklyn College in 1976 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University Of Virginia School Of Law in 1982.


Wayne Pestone
Chief Regulatory Officer

Based in Washington, Mr. Pestone is responsible for FXall's regulatory program, including preparing the firm for pending market and regulatory changes arising from the implementation of the Dodd Frank Act. He will assist in delivering diverse execution mechanisms that comply with new regulations, which will help our clients succeed in an evolving market. Wayne is an experienced markets expert with a deep understanding of market structure and regulatory oversight.

Mr. Pestone joined FXall from the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) where he was Chief Legal Officer, responsible for supervising BOX's legal and compliance obligations and relationships with regulators. Prior to BOX, Wayne was with the law firm Bringham McCutchen, where he provided counsel to exchanges regarding market regulation, including rule approvals, surveillance, and compliance for equity and options trading. Prior to Bingham McCutchen, Wayne served at the SEC for seven years, where he was special counsel with the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations.

Mr. Pestone graduated with a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991 and a B.A. in History from Vassar College in 1988.

 

John Ashworth
Global Head of Enterprise Solutions

Based in London, Mr. Ashworth is responsible globally for FXall's technology and white label solutions business.

Mr. Ashworth is an experienced leader of 'fintech' businesses and joins from Technology for Markets which he co-founded and which develops finteract®, a real-time collaboration tool for the derivative markets. He previously served as CEO of FENICS Software, the company which developed the foreign exchange options market standard pricing tool. John started his career with 12 years at IBM in technology, sales and management roles.

Mr. Ashworth received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from London University (QMC) in 1981.

 

Karen Phillips 
Senior Director, Head of Services, Americas

Ms. Phillips is responsible for the client and bank relationship management teams for the Americas and is focused on driving business growth from the existing client base. She joined FXall in 2001 shortly after the platform was launched. She has worked in Sales and Relationship Management and in 2006 was promoted to Head of Services in the Americas. Prior to joining FXall, Ms. Phillips worked in the foreign exchange, energy, and interest rate derivatives markets.  

Ms. Phillips received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.