26+ years investing in and building financial services companies; former CEO at PENSCO (acq. NASDAQ: OPB), Totality (acq. NYSE: VZ) and NOVO (acq. EPA:PUB).
35+ years of finance and accounting experience in the global capital markets and investment industries. Cathy previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and Finance Officer of NewRez LLC, a non-bank mortgage services provider. She has had prior roles as Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President at Ocwen Financial Corporation, a mortgage servicing company.
18+ years creating and executing innovative fintech technology strategy; former Head of Technology, Edge Systems, at Intercontinental Exchange, and Managing Director of IT at the New York Stock Exchange managing international teams.
20+ years leadership experience building people strategies that drive high performing cultures. Former CPO at fintech, Earnest; and CPO at AnitaB, an organization focused on advancing women in tech. Certified executive coach and M&A advisor.
35+ years in financial business strategy and operations; former COO PENSCO Trust Company, CFO Stanford Management Company, Group CFO Charles Schwab, additional roles Goldman Sachs, Barclays Global Investors.
20 years scaling tech in the secondary markets space; former President of SharesPost Financial Corp., additional roles Silver Lake Waterman, New Evolution Ventures, Jefferies & Co. and Merrill Lynch.
Mr. Rodriques has been Forge’s Chief Executive Officer since July 2018. Prior to Forge, Mr. Rodriques served as Chief Executive Officer of PENSCO Trust Company from March 2010 to September 2016. Since September 2016, he has been the Managing General Partner of Operative Capital, an early stage investor in FinTech companies. Read more …
Debra Chrapaty is the Chief Technology Officer of Toast, the restaurant technology and end-to-end cloud platform company. Ms. Chrapaty brings decades of experience in large-scale technical infrastructure, cloud, operations management, and product management for many brands, including the National Basketball Association (as CTO), E*TRADE (as CIO), Microsoft (as corporate VP of Infrastructure and Cloud), CISCO (as SVP of Collaboration Software), and ZYNGA (as CIO). Read more…
Mr. Hirji has served as the President of MoonPay since January 2023 and previously served as President of Figure Technologies, Inc. since January 2020 until December 2022. Mr. Hirji was a member of Forge’s board from November 2019 until its business combination with Motive Capital Corp in March 2022. From November 2017 to June 2019, Mr. Hirji served as President and COO of Coinbase, Inc. Read more …
Mr. Kumar is an industry partner at Motive Partners, which he joined in 2021. Prior to joining Motive Partners, from 2018 to 2021, Mr. Kumar was founding partner of 7RIDGE, a private markets asset manager invested in fintech and associated transformative technologies. Mr. Kumar’s extensive experience spans investment banking capital markets, investing and market infrastructure across the United States and Europe with over 30 years in the financial sector. Read more …
Mr. Leupold has served as the Managing Director of the Cash Market division of Deutsche Börse AG since September 2021. He previously served in various other roles with Deutsche Börse AG for over 10 years, most recently as Head of Group Venture Portfolio Management from June 2019 to September 2021, Deputy Head of New Markets from August 2018 to May 2019, and Head of Pre-IPO and Capital Markets from April 2016 to August 2018. Read more …
Ms. Vogel has been a director of Trico Bancshares and Tricounties Bank and a member of its Audit Committee, Cyber Risk and Information Technology Committee, and Compensation and Management Succession Committee since February 2020. She was President, Co-Founder and director of BaseVenture Investing, Inc. from 2014 to 2019, serving as Transitional President in 2019 after the company was sold to Fidelity National Information Services, Jacksonville, Florida (FIS). Read more …
Mr. Leibowitz is a finance and technology entrepreneur specializing in business transformation and capital markets. Since January 2022, he has been CEO of Entrypoint Capital, a quantitative investment management firm. Previously, he held roles such as COO, Head of Global Equities Markets, and board member at NYSE Euronext (2007-2013), COO of Americas Equities at UBS (2004-2007), Co-CEO of Schwab-Soundview Capital Markets (2001-2004), and CEO of Redibook ECN (1999-2002). Read more …