Fred Horn - CEO

Mr. Horn is responsible for setting Selero’s strategic direction, building a comprehensive structure for successful execution, running sales, and driving profitable growth.

Prior to joining Selero, Mr. Horn was a senior executive at New Era of Networks for five years, playing lead roles in all aspects of the business from engineering to sales, and culminating in the role of EVP of Operations. Mr. Horn was responsible for worldwide software sales, professional services and partner / channel development, driving $200 million in revenue and a staff of 500 located in Denver, New York, London, Zurich, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney. During his tenure, New Era of Networks grew from $3 million to $200 million in revenue and from 70 to 1000 employees.

Prior to New Era of Networks, Mr. Horn was a partner in the management consulting practice of Ernst & Young developing and implementing strategic technology initiatives in international clients such as Bank of America worldwide, Swiss Bank Corporation, JP Morgan, and Nicholas Applegate.

In addition, Mr. Horn was the co-head of Equities Information Technology at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for worldwide basket (program) trading, portfolio accounting, and the customer statements and position keeping systems.

Michael White - Chief Operating Officer, Nunami Services, LLC

Mr. White focuses on Selero’s solutions for large Broker Dealers and Hedge Funds, and he is a General Securities Principal in Nunami Services, LLC, www.nunami.net.

Prior to joining Selero, Mr. White was acting CTO of Olympia Capital where he wrote a business plan to double the size of the company and attract outside investment. From 2001 to 2005, Michael ran Pequot Capital Management’s software engineering group and co-headed business process development. While at Pequot he was a special consultant to the head of strategic business development at Bank of NY’s ESI broker dealer to help in the redesign of their front office trading systems. Prior to that Michael led the development efforts at New Era of Networks for a group that focused on sell side trading systems and straight thru processing systems. From 1989 to 1999 Michael was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co, developing equity technology systems in their Tokyo, London and New York offices. Michael built Goldman’s first fully automated VWAP trading system and worked with traders internationally to design an algorithm that would trade automatically with specific features for local exchanges.

James C. Parks – Vice President of Finance

Mr. Parks is the VP of Finance for Selero. He is responsible for financial planning and management for the Company, and he is the Nunami Services, LLC, www.nunami.net, Financial & Operations Principal.

Mr. Parks held multiple financial, MIS, and operational roles at New Era of Networks and at Sybase after New Era of Networks was acquired. As VP of Finance and Controller at New Era of Networks, he managed all financial accounting and reporting, tax treasury, planning and budgeting, and information systems, from the Company’s inception. He also coordinated both private and public funding, raising $254 million in the public market. AS VP of MIS Applications, he supervised the implementation of PeopleSoft Financials and Human Resources systems and the post-acquisition integration of New Era of Networks and Sybase MIS systems.

For 13 years Mr. Parks served as a consultant to many startup technology companies, assisting these firms with accounting and financing, tax, treasury, budgeting, management reporting, and other business services.

Jeffrey Sime - President, Nunami Services, LLC

Jeffrey Sime has worked in the securities industry for 18 years. He has held various positions and has extensive experience in startups, finance, brokerage operations, clearing operations and compliance.

Prior to joining Selero, Mr. Sime was the founder and President of Legent Clearing LLC, an Omaha based securities clearing firm. In the capacity of President he was responsible for growing Legent from 5 correspondent customers to 75 in five years.

Prior to founding Legent Clearing Mr. Sime held the positions, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer for Kirkpatrick Pettis a securities broker dealer owned by Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company. He was responsible for human resources, brokerage operations, clearing operations, technology, financial and regulatory reporting, and corporate services. He developed a clearing division at Kirkpatrick Pettis that became Legent Clearing.

Mr. Sime has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting from the University of South Dakota. He is an inactive CPA in Colorado.

John Collins - Senior Director of Engineering

Mr. Collins has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. At Selero Mr. Collins oversees the Engineering group and plays an essential role in the business development. sales, professional services, product roadmap, and client support for the Company’s order routing network, integration products, and FIX engine. At Selero, Mr. Collins has been involved in projects with several exchanges including National Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, FINRA’s Alternative Display Facility, and Boston Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining Selero Mr. Collins was Senior Director of IT at MDC Holdings a $2 billion construction conglomerate. Previously, Mr. Collins held positions as Director of IS for TCI as well as VP of IT at eCollege. While at TCI, Mr. Collins was responsible for all operations and the build-out of TCI’s digital cable network. At eCollege, Mr. Collins managed web development, Quality Assurance, and Data Center Operations. Mr. Collins also spent 18 years in the U.S. Air Force as a communications/computer systems officer.

Tony Wardenburg - Director of Operations

Mr. Wardenburg brings 10 years of Trading Operations experience. He is responsible for Selero's Operations Group delivering the Company’s smart order routing network, trade execution system, FIX engine, MPLS IP/VPN network and for Selero’s customer support team, including implementing and supporting connections to a broad range of trading systems.  Mr. Wardenburg holds both the Series 7 and Series 55 financial services certifications.

Mr. Wardenburg has deep business and technical knowledge of the protocols and trading systems used in the capital markets industry from pre to post trade processing. He has implemented and maintained production connections using various message protocols for all existing US-based equity and options exchanges, a majority of the major dark pools, electronic communication networks (ECNs), and Alternative Trading Systems (ATS).
 
Prior to joining Selero, Mr. Wardenburg was a member of the Trading Operations Team at Thomson / BETA Systems for four years.