--- title: "Leadership" description: "Meet the leadership team behind Pico, the global financial markets technology company powering connectivity, market data, and analytics for institutional trading." source: https://www.pico.net/about/leadership/ markdown_url: https://www.pico.net/about/leadership.md --- # Leadership Founded in 2009, Pico has expanded to 18 offices with a global presence across 55+ data centers, providing mission-critical solutions to sophisticated and advanced financial institutions globally, including leading banks, exchanges, asset managers, and trading firms worldwide. The company's strong growth and global expansion are made possible by the Pico team, whose leadership consists of highly experienced executives from a variety of backgrounds in the Financial Markets industry. ### Jarrod Yuster Chairman, Founder & CEO As Pico's Chairman, Founder and CEO, Jarrod defines the company vision and leads the executive team on business strategy and execution. His responsibilities include interacting with clients and investors, reviewing and discussing product innovation and global expansion, and ensuring organizational stability. Most importantly, Jarrod is committed to listening to clients, a core principle responsible for Pico's growth. Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading. Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. Before working on Wall Street, Jarrod worked as a product engineer and conducted semiconductor research at Intel. Jarrod is a member of the Yale School of Engineering Leadership Council and serves on the Operating Board for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY), providing mentorship to Yale student entrepreneurs. Jarrod holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. ### Eric Harkness President & CFO As Pico's President and CFO, Eric provides agile and results-driven leadership ensuring that Pico continues to deliver and evolve for its employees, clients and key stakeholders. His primary focus and key areas of influence are in Sales, Finance, Product Management, Human Resources, Global Operations, Global Network Services, Corporate Strategy, and M&A. Eric brings over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry to the Pico leadership team. Prior to joining Pico, Eric served as both Chief Financial Officer and subsequently Chief Executive Officer for American Car Center, a private equity-backed national automotive retailer and integrated captive finance company. Before joining American Car, Eric served as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Risk Officer at GATX, a publicly-traded global provider of railcar leasing and services, where he had numerous responsibilities, including treasury, M&A, investment analysis, enterprise risk management and investment risk management. He also held seats on several executive committees and was a prominent member of the leadership team. Eric has held leadership positions in various financial services firms and served on the board of Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance, a leading lessor of commercial aircraft engines. Eric earned his B.S. in Business and Accounting at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and received his MBA in Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. ### Seetharam Gorre Chief Information Officer As Pico's Global Chief Information Officer, Seetharam is the global technology leader of platform and network engineering, software engineering and corporate infrastructure. Seetharam drives efficiency by hiring high performance teams and promoting automation in build, deploy, deliver and support functions. He develops the strategy and vision for IT and engages with clients in understanding and potentially solving technology problems. Seetharam brings over 20 years of experience to Pico. In his previous role, Seetharam served as the Head of Global Trading Technology at Citadel where he was responsible for leading focus on building trading systems supporting fundamental and quantitative strategies trading globally. Prior to Citadel, Seetharam was the CIO at Point72, responsible for driving technology transformation and innovation by deploying new technologies and new development methodologies. Earlier, he worked at SAC Capital as Co-CTO managing the Application Development stack, as well as the Front and Back Office Technology teams that he built during the initial years of SAC. Seetharam attended Osmania and Bradely University, as well as receiving his M.B.A in Finance at The University of Connecticut School of Business. ### David Toomey Chief Technology Officer As Pico's Chief Technology Officer, David leads the company's technology strategy and product engineering organization, overseeing the development and delivery of Pico's software, analytics and trading solutions. He is focused on driving innovation across the platform, strengthening execution across engineering teams, and ensuring Pico continues to deliver high-performance, resilient technology to the global financial markets industry. ### Holly Meacham Chief Sales Officer As Pico's Chief Sales Officer, Holly is focused on implementing best-in-class sales practices to drive success worldwide. She plays a key role in advancing Pico's global sales strategy, ensuring stronger consistency and alignment across regions to deepen global relationships and accelerate growth. Holly drives greater consistency and alignment across regions to strengthen global relationships, enhance client retention, and accelerate profitable growth. Holly brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Pico, Holly was the served as Global Head of Sales and Marketing at Curinos, a leading provider of data, analytics and technology solutions to financial institutions. Previously, she led global sales at Informa's Financial Intelligence business, managing a large global team focused on growing market share and enhancing client relationships. Earlier in her career, she held multiple senior sales roles at Thomson Reuters. Holly's extensive sales leadership experience, relationships in the financial services sector and knowledge of best-in-class sales processes will be instrumental in advancing our sales strategy and in driving the next phase of our revenue growth and strengthening client relations. ### Stacie Swanstrom Head of Market Services As Pico's Head of Market Services, Stacie leads the global infrastructure and connectivity organization, driving continued global expansion, revenue growth, and scale. Stacie brings three decades of exchange and financial technology experience to Pico. She has served as a global software executive and transformation leader of technology and services businesses. Prior to Pico, Stacie managed Nasdaq's Corporate Solutions division, the global connectivity to Nasdaq's markets, trading, compliance and risk applications, Nasdaq's trade reporting platform, as well as other roles in the organization. She listens to clients and brings technological innovation and energy to her roles to optimize the businesses she's responsible for while accelerating growth and enhancing the client experience. Stacie recently served on the Advisory Board for the College of Business and Economics at Towson University, where she earned a B.S. in Business with a concentration in Marketing. ### Ken Jinks Head of Corvil Analytics As Pico's Head of Corvil Analytics, Ken leads the Corvil Analytics organization, driving continued expansion of the market-leading network capture, observability and performance analytics solution. Ken has over 30 years' experience spanning product strategy, engineering, sales, marketing, key customer relationships and M&A. For the past 20 years, he has focused on the FinTech market, where he has led Corvil to market leadership in advanced analytics for electronic trading. This position is built on sustained innovation, including patented technologies, and deep relationships with leading global banks, exchanges, financial institutions and trading firms. ### Frank Nebbeling Head of Commercial & Client Partnerships As Pico's Commercial and Client Partnerships lead, Frank manages commercial strategy, global client partnerships, and delivery management to support Pico's expansion and revenue growth. Frank brings over 25+ years of trading technology experience in the Capital Markets industry. Prior to joining Pico, Frank was Managing Director and Head of Global Technology Services at ITG, a multinational agency brokerage and financial markets technology firm, where he led the Global Technology Services organization responsible for Trading Support, Infrastructure, Market Data, Quality Assurance, and Vendor Management. Prior to ITG, Frank was Executive Vice President and Head of Americas Client Services at Reuters where he was responsible for all customer support functions across North and South America including Relationship Management, Customer Help Desk, Technical Account Management and Client Site Engineering. Frank received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado and his M.B.A. from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business. ### Lauren Goldberg General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer As Pico's General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer & Corporate Secretary, Lauren is responsible for all aspects of the company's legal function, providing critical support for Pico's global operations and growth initiatives. Lauren also oversees corporate governance, compliance, human resources, corporate development and risk management. Lauren has over 25 years of legal experience, including serving previously as the General Counsel of two public companies, VEREIT, Inc. and Revlon. She began her legal career at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and the boutique litigation firm of Stillman & Friedman, after which she served nine years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and then worked in house at MacAndrews & Forbes. Lauren has extensive experience overseeing legal and compliance matters, managing the day-to-day functioning of a legal department to advance corporate strategy and working with management and boards of directors to institute appropriate corporate governance processes. Prior to her legal career, Lauren was an accountant and worked at Coopers & Lybrand. Lauren received her undergraduate degree in economics with a major in accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. ### Kelly Spector Head of Strategy ### Matt Norman Chief People Officer As Pico's Chief People Officer, Matt focuses on leading People & Culture initiatives, organizational design, HR systems improvement, talent and performance management, career development, recruitment and retention strategies and general HR operations Matt Brings extensive global experience to Pico. Prior to joining Pico, Matt served three and a half years as Chief People Officer at DigitalOcean, where he built the HR department, while helping the organization grow from 500 to 1,300 employees and go public in 2021. Before his position at DigitalOcean, Matt served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources for six and a half years at Denihan Hospitality Group, where he led the development and delivery of all HR and culture initiatives for an organization of 3,000 employees. Matt earned his B.A. degree in Psychology and Economics at Wabash College and received a Masters degree in Organization and Leadership Development from Columbia University.