Executive Team
| Theresa L. Adams | Partner, CEO & President |
| Douglas Long | EVP – Business Development & Product |
| Daniel Smith | EVP & Chief Financial Officer |
| Andrew Vickers | EVP & Chief Technology Officer |
Theresa L. Adams – Partner,
CEO & President
Theresa is one of the founding partners of Principia and is CEO and president
of Principia. Prior to this, Theresa was at Republic Bank and Mercadian Capital,
where she was responsible for originating and marketing derivatives transactions.
Theresa also held a number of senior management positions in capital market
groups within Drexel Burnham, Becker Paribas and Salomon Brothers Inc. She
has an M.B.A. from New York University.
Douglas Long (Ph.D.) EVP – Business Development & Product
Douglas is responsible for business development and product. A frequent speaker on industry
panels, author and contributor to the trade press, Douglas provides the leadership,
quantitative skills and domain expertise to bridge the critical link between
the market and the company's product development team. In his previous role
at Principia, as Director of Product Management, he helped develop specifications
to build and integrate ABS/MBS instruments and structured credit derivatives
capabilities into the solution. Prior to joining Principia, Douglas was Vice
President at Deutsche Bank, leading research and quantitative analysis for
interest and credit risk management. He also served as a quantitative analyst
and financial engineer with Infinity (SunGard) and Renaissance Software in
London, where he developed analytics used in handling fixed income, derivatives
and structured finance securities.
Daniel Smith, EVP & Chief Financial
Officer
Dan is responsible for Principia’s finances, client
services and administrative functions. Prior to Principia, Dan was SVP of Finance
and Administration at Viewpoint,
a publicly-traded digital graphics software firm. He also has six years of
public auditing and consulting experience at Arthur Andersen and has served
as Treasurer,
CFO
and
COO at a variety of companies in the business-to-business and consumer sectors.
Dan has an M.B.A. from New York University and is a qualified C.P.A.
Andrew Vickers - EVP & Chief
Technology Officer
Andrew is the Chief Technology Officer at Principia and responsible for the
development and execution of the Company's technology vision and roadmap. Andrew
comes from a 7-year career at FNX Limited where he was Executive Managing Director
and CTO. There, he was responsible for several major technology initiatives,
including the implementation of the impressive scalability and reliability
features of the FNX Sierra system. Prior to FNX, Andrew was with ABN-AMRO Bank
where he was project manager responsible for a multi-site global FX Options
trading system and network. Previous to this role, Andrew had several years
experience as an FX options trader as Deputy Head of FX Options trading at
ABN-AMRO and at Continental Illinois National Bank. Andrew has a B.S. degree
in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London.
