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Peter Chirlian
As co-founder and CEO of Armanta, Peter Chirlian brings extensive experience in the financial arena to the design and implementation of decision-support, portfolio management, and risk management systems.
Prior to Armanta, Chirlian was Managing Director and head of the Financial Strategies Group at Prudential Global Asset Management, where he developed a new portfolio and risk management system used to manage over $150 billion in Fixed Income assets. He also spearheaded the fixed income electronic trading business at Goldman Sachs. He has held management, trading, and development positions at other leading companies including Lehman Brothers, First Boston and Bell Laboratories.
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Eric Kaplan
As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Armanta, Eric Kaplan has deep expertise in
IT architecture and operations. Prior to Armanta, Kaplan was Global Director of Fixed Income Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch and held key management positions as systems architect and technical development lead with Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. Before Lehman Brothers, he was a senior consultant with Andersen Consulting, now known as Accenture, where he led the development of large, mission critical client/server systems. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton.
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Vicki Zesses
As the Managing Director of New Business Development, Zesses brings a rich background in securities sales and trading and asset management with 25 years of experience in the analysis of financial institutions and complex structured products. Starting her career with Drexel Burnham Lambert in counterparty risk, she then headed the credit risk team for the merchant bank of First Interstate Bank, which later became part of Standard Chartered Bank where she specialized in complex structured products. Moving to asset management, she headed the taxable-fixed income research teams at American Century Investments and Charles Schwab Investment Management. Most recently Vicki worked and consulted with the financial services divisions of major technology companies, including Sungard, Oracle, and Thomson Reuters.
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“We gave Armanta six weeks to develop a proof
of concept. What they accomplished in that time would have taken any other company half a year,
if they could have accomplished it at all. That was sufficient proof their system was flexible enough
to satisfy our demands.”
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| Hans Lanslots, CTO |
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