Jon Steward - Director, Advisory Board Member

Jon Steward joined Evest Venture Partners as a Director and Advisory Board member in June 2007. He has over 25 years of business experience in management, sales and business development in the financial technology sector having worked in the UK, America and Asia. Most recently, Mr. Steward served as Managing Director, EMEA for Charles River Development, a privately held software company providing hosting and data services to automate front and middle office investment operations for buy-side firms. The focus for Mr. Steward was to establish the Charles River brand as a market leader in the region for portfolio management, compliance, trading and risk monitoring. During his four year tenure, Mr. Steward lead the regional team of over 100 staff supporting sales/marketing/project implementations to tremendous growth, focusing on business development and building out the service offering. In the process, the region successfully won many tier one global sales and opened up “first time sales” in many new markets within Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Africa.

Prior to Charles River, Mr. Steward served Deputy CEO and Managing Director for GL Trade, a leading trading technology and software provider headquartered in Paris, France. In 2006, GL Trade acquired NYFIX Overseas, where Mr. Steward had served as President and Managing Director since 1993. Mr. Steward played a lead role in the transaction and headed the integration and new business development efforts for the merged business. During his tenure at NYFIX Overseas, Mr. Steward was instrumental in building the company’s international operations in Europe and Asia/Pacific. This development was achieved through global deals with many of the world’s largest banks and brokerage firms including Deutsche, RBS, HSBC, ABN, Merrill, Fortis, Credit Lyonnais, Bank of America, JP Morgan and UBS.

NYFIX Overseas was a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYFIX, Inc. (Nasdaq: NYFX), which developed one of the world’s largest, private FIX-based equity transaction networks connecting more than 200 leading brokers and 300 institutions to the leading global stock and derivative exchanges. In 2003, NYFIX acquired Javelin Technologies (Global leading supplier of FIX engines) where Mr. Steward successfully oversaw the integration in Europe and Asia. Mr. Steward also served as a Director of Javelin Technologies and the NYFIX Millennium Broker Dealer business in Europe and Asia. Previously, Mr. Steward held senior executive positions with a number of major public companies within the financial markets. Mr. Steward holds a degree in Business Management and Marketing from Middlesex University in London.

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