Making markets safer

Krishna Srinivasan is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm focused on backing world class category leaders headquartered in Texas, and has been investing in early stage Texas based companies and entrepreneurs since 2000. Prior to founding LiveOak in 2011, Krishna was a Partner at Austin Ventures and previously was with Motorola where he wrote large scale optimization software for supply chain planning.

Kim Taylor retired from her role as President, Clearing and Post-Trade Services at CME Group in December 2017. She joined CME as an analyst in 1989 and rose to handle risk management in the Clearing House in 1998 and to become President of the CME Clearing House in 2004. She served as CME’s President, Global Operations, Technology & Risk from September 2014 to December 2016.

Travis Schwab is CEO of Austin-based Eventus, a multi-award-winning global provider of trade surveillance and market risk solutions for financial institutions. For over 25 years, Travis has served in chief executive, compliance, sales and financial technology roles across the front, middle and back offices at a diverse set of organizations. Before founding Eventus, Travis was the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) of RGM Securities, the broker-dealer subsidiary of one of the largest proprietary trading firms in the U.S. before its 2017 acquisition by DRW. Before RGM, he was Managing Director of Global Buyside Sales and CCO at Trading Technologies. Previously, Travis was Co-Head of North American eBrokerage Sales at Calyon Financial (currently Societe Generale). Earlier in his career, Travis had management roles at NYFIX, Inc. (currently Itiviti) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (now CME Group).

He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Loyola University in Chicago.

Matthew Alfieri joined Centana in 2017 and is a Partner on the investment team, and he currently serves on the Board of Eventus Systems and serves as a Board Observer at Beacon, Plooto, Sayari Labs, SpyCloud and Zesty.ai. Matthew was named one of GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors (2022) and was named one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street (2019). Prior to Centana, Matthew spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a Vice President with the Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) team working in London and New York.  Matthew gained experience investing in financial technology and enterprise software companies.  He led eight investments and served on the Boards of six of the companies; his investments included Barefoot Networks (acquired by Intel), Vapor IO and Unbound Tech (acquired by Coinbase). Prior to PSI, Matthew was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. He received a BA in Business Administration in the Financial Analyst Honors Program from the University at Albany.

Richard Gorelick is a seed investor in Eventus Systems. Until February 2020, Richard was Head of Market Structure at DRW, a principal trading firm. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of RGM Advisors, an automated trading firm that was acquired by DRW in 2017. Prior to RGM, Richard was Chief Strategy Officer of Deja.com and an attorney in Coudert Brothers’ New York office. Richard is the Chairman of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee.

Fred Hatfield is the founder of Hatfield Advisory Services and a senior advisor at Patomak Global Partners. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for ICE Futures U.S. He served as a CFTC Commissioner from 2004 – 2006 and was Chief of Staff to Senator John Breaux (D-LA) from 1995 – 2004 and U.S. House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-CA) from 1980-1989.

Robb joined Jump in 2021 to build mechanisms that accelerate growth and create scale within Jump’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining Jump, Robb was on the Corporate Business Development team at Amazon, supporting various business teams structure and negotiating complex, first-of-their-kind strategic partnerships. Robb’s early career spanned various operating roles, focused on business development, strategy, and product.