The Team
Dr. Gene Schupak; Partner and Head of Quantitative Research
Fang Zhao, CFA - Principal and Senior Quantitative Engineer
Julio Leonardo Jimenez; Principal and Chief Systems Architect
Gerard M. Galluscio; Founder and Managing Partner
Gerard's domain expertise includes technology implementations that support all functions of the front, middle and back-office operations of global financial services firms: from trade capture, risk management, P/L reporting through clearing, settlement and collateral management. Gerard began his career on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers' global derivatives business which he supported in both New York and London. At Salomon Brothers, he managed both the development and implementation of their derivatives system and migrated the business to a single source of reference and market data, greatly streamlining operations and eliminating exceptions. In 1995, he segued into financial technology and client satisfaction full time, first as Associate Director of Client Services for 5 years at Summit Systems, the leading derivatives technology vendor and then at Cygnifi, the JPMorgan spin off dedicated to providing transaction transparency and portfolio risk management to end users of derivatives. As Director of Client Services at Cygnifi, Gerard was responsible for building the support infrastructure for the firm's global ASP business. Gerard holds a bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from Marist College, as well as an MBA in Finance from Pace University.
Dr. Gene Schupak; Partner and Head of Quantitative Research
Gene has an extensive experience with Suite LLC's Analytics - As a Suite customer, he has used and expand the Alib Analytic Library as the head of the Quantitative Research at Swiss Re Financial Products where he led new product development for Credit and Interest Rate Derivatives desks. Gene has also an extensive proprietary trading experience and held senior-level quantitative research positions at other firms such as Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Cooper Neff. He has built analytical decision support systems for proprietary trading of Interest Rate Derivatives, Convertible Securities and Equity Index Options and managed teams supporting the Swap, Emerging Market, Equity Derivative and FX trading desks. He has developed multi-factor statistical models with applications in: Building of term structure of Interest Rates, estimation of Credit Default Probabilities, Risk Management, Electronic Trading and Relative Value Analysis.
Gene holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Kiev State University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Kiev Institute of Thermophysics and has taught mathematics at Temple University.
Fang Zhao, CFA - Principal and Senior Quantitative Engineer
Fang joined Suite in 2004 as an experienced technologist and has been very instrumental in enhancing Suite's analytics as well as furthering the derivatives valuation-services business. His background includes five years with Northrop Grumman where he designed and developed image-processing software and initiated and oversaw system security and disaster recovery programs. While there he also led team of developers writing a cross-platform compatible data-capture and image retrieval system using large relational databases.
Fang holds an M.S degree in Computer Science from Florida State University and an MBA in Finance, Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. Fang is also a CFA.
Julio Leonardo Jimenez; Principal and Chief Systems Architect
Prior to joining Suite in 2005, Julio held senior software engineering positions in the Financial Services and Telecom Industries. On engagement at ING-Barings he designed and implemented the middleware configuration for a fixed-income trade management system on a Windows platform using C and C++. Prior to that he designed and developed an electronic monitoring system using RF and biometric voice verification.
Julio's accomplishments at Suite include the re-architecting of the Derivatives Studio application concurrent with a port of the code base to C#, and integrating the tool within Suite's in-house valuation-service infrastructure. He is also credited with streamlining the ALib build process and significantly enhancing the ALib Client-Addin Kit such that ALib licensees can integrate their own customized functions without needing access to the source code.
Julio holds a bachelor's degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy NY.