Roger Portnoy
Roger Portnoy is the founder of Starting-Right.com Limited, a specialist strategic consultancy serving high growth financial technology and content entities.
| Headline: | Investor |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Supporting my investments |
| Schools: | Colgate University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Starting-Right.com Limited |
| Position: | Founder |
| Description: | Roger Portnoy is the founder of Starting-Right.com Limited, a specialist strategic consultancy serving high growth financial technology and content entities. Starting-Right has advised and fulfilled special projects for many of the leading application software and infrastructure vendors serving the world's most prestigious investment banks, hedge funds, and investment management firms. These have included Cisco, British Telecom, Pertrac Financial Solutions, UBS, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. |
| Employer: | Thomson Financial |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | Mr. Portnoy began his career in investment banking, helping LTCB International and later SBCI (UBS Ag) develop and expand its fixed income proprietary trading and capital market research practice. In 1988, he created and operated his own company, ATLAS, operating it in partnership with Thomson Financial. Thomson acquired it in full in 1992. Thereafter, until his departure in 2000, Mr. Portnoy served as a new product & business development director and key member of the Corporate Venturing Unit in Thomson with a broad global remit. As product director, Mr. Portnoy was responsible for creating a number of new on-line information and analytical businesses for the capital markets group in Asia/Pacific, Emerging Markets and Europe, including the electronic publishing division of the IFR. Mr. Portnoy was also involved in the due diligence, valuation and integration projects surrounding the acquisition of Privatization International, Acquisitions Monthly, and Primark Inc as well as minority investments by TF Ventures in a number of mid-stage companies. |
| Employer: | Various companies |
| Position: | Active investor, adviser and banker |
| Description: | Since leaving Thomson, Mr. Portnoy has been an active investor, adviser and banker. He has had the opportunity to be a principal in the exits of Mergermarket (acquired by Pearson plc), Lexit Capital (acquired by Neonet AB), and StreamVPN (acquired by Factset Research), and was an advisor to management of Beauchamp Financial Technology and Marketpipe on their respective exits to LineData and Ipreo. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Colgate University |
| Degree: | Philosophy and Japanese studies , BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | Mr. Portnoy has a pending patent filed with Pertrac Financial Solutions for a new type of EDI solution for the alternative asset community |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | He is a current board member of Alphacet Inc, a quantitative back-testing platform, OneBlotter Limited, an advanced trading technology company focused on Forex Exchange and FNZ, a leading personal finance custody and investment platform. He serves on the advisory board member at Axioma and is supporting strategic business development efforts for Northstar Systems International. He is also an investor/adviser to Baymarkets AB, a OTC e-platform solution company based in Sweden, Recognia, a software vendor delivering packaged technical analysis and pattern recognition signals for retail brokerage platforms Skygrid, a semantic engine company, and Coalition Development, a strategic consultancy firm focused on competitive analysis and client profitability. |
Roger's Startups (2)
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Alphacet
Software company delivering innovative quantitative modelling and backtesting platform for traders and investors in commodity, FX and derivative markets.
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OneBlotter Limited
Building the next generation trading application, event processor and low latency messaging infrastructure for the FX community
Roger is Following (33)
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Paymo
Paymo is a mobile payments network that allows consumers anywhere in the world to buy online and pay with their mobile phone
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spatialkey
SpatialKey is a next generation Information Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System. It is designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals.
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NewsCred
NewsCred is a digital newspaper that allows its users to read all the worlds credible news in one place
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Kublax
Kublax is a secure online personal financial management platform which automatically aggregates all of your UK bank and credit card accounts into one place
Roger's Contacts (8)
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Andrea Favale
Experienced professional with more than 10 years experience in digital media, consumer internet and all things venture. Relentlessly resourceful.
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Barry Silbert
Barry E. Silbert is the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest and leading marketplace for illiquid assets.
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Alan Samuels
BA in Law and Management Studies with MA from University of Cambridge, and MBA from The Wharton School. Currently working as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at People Capital.
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