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Dr Peter Lappo CEO / CTO
PhD, MSc (Finance), BSc 2.1, CITP (Charted IT Professional):  

Twitter @pete_lappo

Peter Lappo CV (pdf)    Dr Peter Lappo CV (doc)

Peter has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry ranging from developer, systems analyst and project manager. During this time he has been involved with systems in investment banking, finance, simulation and telecommunications. Since 1997 he has primarily been working on financial systems. He considers agile development as critical to his success in delivering projects and has been involved in the agile movement from its early days.

Peter has a wide range of experience in implementation technologies mainly on Unix platforms including:-

  • Java
  • Scala
  • Javascript
  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • Objective C
  • C++
  • Unix Shell

He has developed systems for :-

  • High Frequency / Low Latency Futures Trading – Buy Side
  • FX and Forwards Trading – Buy Side
  • FX and Forwards pricing – Sell Side
  • Equity trading – Sell Side
  • Fixed Income trading – Sell Side
  • Interest Rate Swaps trading – Sell Side

Peter has worked in the following financial institutions:-

  • RBS
  • Man (AHL)
  • Bear Stearns
  • JP Morgan
  • UBS
  • Barclays
  • Nomura
  • Computer Share
  • DRKW (now Commerze Bank)
  • non finance BT / GPT / Link Miles / APS Berk

In addition to developing core components very often Peter gets involved in performance optimisation in terms of memory and CPU utilisation and has had success in reducing latency and memory consumption often resulting in 50% improvements in performance.

Mr Robert Gibbins BSc – Associate
Robert has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years in a number of roles including systems analysis, developer, database administrator and design consultant. During this time he has acquired extensive experience in database architecture with both Oracle and SQL server and application development using ASP, Java Script, HTML, XML, XSL, Visual Studio and .Net technologies. In recent years Robert has developed a customer relationship management (CRM) system in BT’s UK research centre at Adastral Park, and is currently engaged in web development for a multinational pharmaceutical company’s corporate portal.