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About / The Team

Executive leadership team

Kelly Rodriques
Chief Executive Officer

Kelly
Rodriques

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).

James Nevin
Chief Financial Officer

James
Nevin

25+ years of financial and capital markets experience, including most recently at the LSEG. He spent over a decade at LSEG in roles including Managing Director of the Funds, Research and Content business lines, Managing Director and Head of Data Solutions, and CFO and Managing Director of the Information Services division.

Cathy Dondzila
Chief Accounting Officer

Cathy
Dondzila

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.

Vidya Eashwer
Chief Technology Officer

Vidya
Eashwer

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.

Victoria Hughes
Chief People Officer

Victoria
Hughes

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.

Jennifer Phillips
Chief Revenue & Growth Officer

Jennifer
Phillips

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.

Board members

Kelly Rodriques
Chief Executive Officer, Forge Global

Kelly
Rodriques

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
Chief Technology Officer, Toast

Debra
Chrapaty

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…

Asiff Hirji
President, MoonPay

Asiff
Hirji

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 …

Ashwin Kumar
Industry Partner, Motive Partners

Ashwin
Kumar

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 …

Kim Vogel
Director, Trico Bancshares & Tricounties Bank

Kim
Vogel

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 …

Larry Leibowitz
Chief Executive Officer, Entrypoint Capital

Larry
Leibowitz

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 …

Brian McDonald
Board Member, Financial Services Executive

Brian
McDonald

Mr. McDonald, age 54, is a veteran in the financial services and wealth management industries. From December 2017 to January 2025, Mr. McDonald served as Managing Director, Head of Direct and Institutional Businesses at Morgan Stanley. In this role, he oversaw multiple strategic initiatives, including helping to build and lead Morgan Stanley at Work, one of the largest workplace businesses in the world. Since February 2025, Mr. McDonald has served on the boards of two companies as an Executive in Residence at TIFIN, an AI platform for asset, wealth, and insurance services. Read more …

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