We have the experience, connections, and perspective you need. 

Feargal O'Sullivan experience

Feargal O'Sullivan

USAM’s Chief Executive Officer, Feargal, is a proven business leader with the rare ability to blend business acumen and deep technical knowledge. With over 20 years of experience at BlackRock, Reuters, and NYSE, Feargal understands the needs of clients and vendors in equal measure.

Deirdre Sullivan experience

Deirdre Sullivan

Deirdre is a marcomms professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic and operational fintech sector marketing. As the former regional VP of Marketing at SIX Financial, she developed and implemented multi-faceted initiatives to support regional and international growth. Deirdre is a skilled wordsmith specializing in distilling key service benefits and communicating value through an optimal mix of activities to drive awareness and generate leads.

Scott Gallagher experience

Scott Gallagher

Scott Gallagher is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive who has worked at various firms, including small start-ups and large publicly traded enterprises. Individual producer, sales manager, product manager, and P&L owner are just a few of his former roles.

Neil Chinai experience

Neil Chinai

Charmaine Athaide

Charmaine Athaide

Charmaine is a trusted advisor to her clients, with nearly 15 years of experience connecting financial institutions with technology solutions and services that drive business results. Her previous positions with authoritative regulatory and banking intelligence providers have added to her deep understanding of the Asian fintech ecosystem, which informs the successful go-to-market approaches she develops and executes for innovative firms in the sector.

Claudio Sanniti experience

Claudio Sanniti

Claudio is an IT executive with 25+ years of experience leading enterprise global accounts and engagements. His passion for leveraging technology to enhance the client experience has driven his success in building relationships and facilitating strategy, planning, and executing solutions that solve business issues. Claudio has held senior IT leadership roles at major financial firms such as RBC, CIBC, Citibank, and Merrill Lynch in Toronto, NY, and London.

Mick Coffey experience

Mick Coffey

Mick Coffey is a seasoned executive with over a decade of experience in the FX and Market Data arenas. Following his role as an SVP in HSBC’s global FX E-Commerce team, Mick worked for three years ITG, where he was part of a small team that created their Agency FX Desk. Mick is also a former employee of TIBCO, Thomson ILX, and Merrill Lynch.

Erik Schlesinger experience

Erik Schlesinger

Jiahui Lu experience

Jiahui Lu

Jiahui is a data science professional with a successful history of mining structured and text data to predict outcomes across a wide variety of investment and public sentiment scenarios. This combination of skills has proved instrumental for the continuous programmatic improvement of USAM’s Sales Slicer benchmarks for sales success. A talented academic, Jiahui earned her Masters in Engineering with honors from Cornell University and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wuhan University in China.

Clive Furness experience

Clive Furness

Clive is a veteran of commodities, derivatives, and larger capital markets. He has traded cash and derivatives (Goldman Sachs), run exchanges (LIFFE), and founded a market infrastructure consulting firm (Contango). His broad, global experience with all market participants and asset classes has given him a deep understanding of the relationship and necessary balance between products and technology.

Clive Furness experience

Andrew Brown

Andrew is a proven enterprise sales executive with 20+ years of experience building strong, senior-level relationships across the financial landscape—from broker-dealers and RIAs to hedge funds, family offices, PE firms, and blockchain innovators.  He consistently drives and surpasses revenue targets for himself and his teams.

Robert Poppema experience

Robert Poppema

Based in New York, Robert Poppema is a highly skilled licensing compliance executive with 25 years of software and data sales experience. Throughout his career with industry-leading firms such as S&P and Bloomberg, Robert has consistently demonstrated an ability to cultivate mutually rewarding, long-term business relationships.

Clive Furness experience

Lee Steer

With an entrepreneurial spirit and a growth-minded focus, Lee has a history of creating successful companies based on innovative ideas. Throughout his career, which bridges capital markets and art, Lee has demonstrated an unusually keen sense of how properly applied technology transforms businesses.
A recognized leader, he has a proven ability to balance the needs of companies and customers, create lasting strategic partnerships, and foster relationships that fuel long-term success

Lynn Larson

Lynn Larson

Lynn Larson is an experienced executive focused on vendor management, procurement, HR, and finance. Over her 20+ year career, she has consistently contributed to corporate agility and results by streamlining back-office programs, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency. Lynn has the gift of effective communication and uses it to build consensus and inspire action across the full spectrum of company stakeholders and customers.

Robert Poppema experience

Adam Bryan

Our COO and Strategic Advisor Adam Bryan is an accomplished C-level executive with extensive hands-on experience successfully nurturing companies through periods of growth or turbulence. His financial acumen, strong management skills, and capable mentoring have helped build effective teams and sustainable development for companies in fintech, data, software, and more.