What Happened?
Norwell, MA-based Acadiasoft has Appointed Chris Walsh as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Acadiasoft is uniquely focused on delivering margin automation for counterparties engaged in collateral management. Headquartered in Boston and London, Acadiasoft was founded through collaboration between major financial institutions, including eight Fed 14 banks, to create solutions that support full implementation of documented ISDA Collateral Requirements. Our Advisory Groups, Best Practice Forums and Working Groups carry provide a unique framework for integrating the thought leadership and capabilities of market participants, market infrastructures and key service providers across the industry. It is this framework and commitment that enables us to innovate on an industry-wide basis.
About the Person
As COO of AcadiaSoft, Walsh will be responsible for the day-to-day business operations of the company. Over the past two decades, Walsh has been a leader and innovator in the financial messaging field. During the 1990s, Walsh held multiple management positions at Thomson Financial`s Electronic Settlements Group where he built, launched and grew its suite of post-trade messaging services. At this time, Walsh was granted multiple patents in this field and was instrumental in the formation of Omgeo, LLC, a joint venture and market-leading post-trade utility. Following Omgeo, LLC, Walsh founded and grew Radius Partners, a financial messaging software provider that was eventually acquired by Fundtech Corporation. Walsh then joined NYFIX, Inc. in 2007 as its global head of order management and strategy where he was part of a team that was able to re-list and eventually sell the front-office messaging leader. Following the acquisition of NYFIX by NYSE Euronext in 2009, Walsh served as a senior vice president in the company`s technologies division.
Info Source
Press Release
Short Profile