Joe Murphy
Acting President, Partner and CFO

Joe directs and oversees all aspects of the finance and accounting functions of the organization.   In this role he has primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial-related activities of the company. This includes direct responsibility for accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, job costing, legal, property management, deal analysis and negotiations, investor relationships and partnership compliance.

Joe earned his CPA in the mid-eighties, and is currently an owner and Director of Liberty Systems Inc. the parent company of Liberty Lines Transit, Inc., a Yonkers, New York based company that owns and operates 99% of Westchester County, New York's Bee Line Bus System. Joe is also a trustee for the TWU Westchester Private Bus Lines Pension Trust, as well as a Trustee of the TWU Westchester Private Bus Lines Health Trust.  Joe has invested in several startup ventures since 1990, including insurance companies, real estate holding companies and other software ventures.

Joe has worked with fellow co-founders Stephen Kalayjian and David Scott over the last twelve years. 

Stephen Kalayjian
co-founder and domain expert

Stephen is the author of RTTT's proprietary trading strategy and other analytical products designed for traders. Stephen's involvement in the equities market's spans over 22 years, first working as an Amex specialist clerk with Spear Leads & Kellogg, and later as a specialist clerk with several NYSE specialist firms.  Stephen subsequently worked as an institutional wire clerk and then as a NYSE floor broker for a global institutional brokerage firm.

During the period 1990-2001 Stephen's trading activities were conducted on a proprietary basis exclusively with NASD brokerage firms. Over this period Stephen traded approximately 2 billion shares and realized substantial profits. 

Stephen's proprietary trading required the simultaneous monitoring of real time market and technical data displayed on up to ten computer monitors, the dynamic assimilation of the real time information, and execution based upon his recognition of a stock's trading pattern.

Stephen's insight and understanding of the markets, formed over many years of dynamic trading using multiple sources of real time market and technical data, led to his writing the trading strategies that ultimately formed the basis of RTTT's technology.  

Initially, Stephen began writing the trading strategies for his own trading and money management.  Stephen's goal was to design a trading system based upon his pattern recognition strategies that would allow him to optimize the 6 1/2 trading day and compound returns.

However, since Stephen's trading strategies draw from multiple sources of real time market, technical and statistical data, and involve a considerable number of pattern recognition matches for thousands of U.S. equities he realized it would be impossible to manually implement the strategies and execute trades on a real time basis.  As a result, Stephen partnered with SAK co-founders, to design and develop computer software with sufficient processing and computational power to run the trading strategies.  

Since 2001 Stephen has dedicated his time to writing, testing, ranking and launching the trading strategies of RTTT.

Stephen's knowledge and understanding of the U.S. equities market is very well respected in the financial community.

David H. Scott
Partner and founding member of the RTTT team.

Dave has spent the last 30 years as a software developer and technology consultant. When the PC was barely a year old, the world's largest software company, Cullinet Software of Westwood MA, was seeking expertise for its newly founded PC software development group.  David joined this small development team as a senior software engineer and proceeded to develop the database engine for the first commercially available Micro-to-Mainframe integrated database.   As a project leader at Cullinet, he took on the management of a development team as size of the department grew.  After moving to the New York area and founding Bryte Inc., David continued to provide his expertise as a consultant to Cullinet for several years.  Cullinet eventually merged with Computer Associates.

As principal of Bryte for over 25 years, David developed software and provided technology consulting to over one hundred companies.  During this time, he passed nineteen industry knowledge exams and earned six industry certifications from Microsoft, Lotus Development and Novell.  David worked extensively with K. Hovnanian Enterprises, a fortune 500 company, where he designed and developed their prospect management and reporting system as well as their warranty and customer service applications.  This system was later integrated with SAP R3 as a front end for their accounting system. David started programming computers in high school. As a sophomore at Boston University, he was accepted by their graduate school to earn his Masters Degree at the same time he was completing his undergraduate work.  By his junior year he was hired as a senior analyst by a local technology firm.  He graduated Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Computer Science and received his Masters Degree four months later.

Matthew Horisk
Chief Technology Officer

Matthew joined the Real Time Trading team in March of 2011.  He was previously a Managing Director at Bear Stearns for 7 years where he developed the firm's first order and execution management system, complete with a NYSE floor trading system and integrated wireless handheld trading system for brokers.  This flagship system was developed and deployed over his entire tenure, globally, supporting over 2,500 traders and market makers.  This system is still in use today at JPMorgan Chase, with many more users being added each year.  He was also a Senior Vice President at Citigroup, where he developed similar technologies, on an even larger scale, geared primarily towards proprietary trading and algorithmic trading.  Most recently he was Director of Quantitative Trading Technology at TIAA-CREF for the past 5 years where he pioneered algorithmic trading strategies and crossing engines for the buy-side.  The $140 billion dollar equity fund was driven through these trading engines and saved the firm upwards of $30 million dollars annually.  Matthew has consistently served as a visionary for all the firms that he has worked for, providing roadmaps for future technology needs.  During his free time, Matthew is an avid musician, playing the drums for nearly 30 years and doing his best to keep pace with his two daughters.

Philip Kennedy
Product Manager

Phil joined RTTT in November 2010. Phil previously worked with the start up firm, Tickit Trading Systems, LLC, a high frequency front-end futures trading software platform. As Tickit's northeast sales rep and business developer, Phil not only brought in key clients and shaped the client offering but was instrumental in bringing the eventual buy out of the firm 8 months later to Trading Technologies Int., a marquee player in the future's arena.Previously in 2007, Phil was brought into Dow Jones, a News Corporation Company, to startup their Algorithmic Trading Solutions product as their New England sales rep.  With speed of information being paramount to present day trading strategies, the Dow Jones product offered a millisecond news feed to both hedge fund traders and large broker dealer desks. Phil began his career on the NYSE as a floor broker for Janney Montgomery Scott and continued on in subsequent years to build and run hedge fund trading desks for the likes of firms like ETG, Ltd a Goldman Sachs subsidiary. Phil has an engineering degree from UVM and lives in Madison, CT with his wife Hillary and their 3 daughters.

Christian Lopez
Director of  IT

Christian joined in February 2008.  Christian designs and architects the firm's technological infrastructure.  He ensures that RTTT's infrastructure is able to adapt and scale with market demands.  Christian graduated from the University of Richmond and holds a B.S degree in Computer Science with a double minor in Business Administration and Mathematics.   He worked as an intern developer at Iron Works Consulting then transition to Information Technology at Tahas Technologies as a systems engineer in New York, NY.  At Tahas Technologies, Christian wrote the in house billing software for the company as well provided IT network support for Tahas Technologies' clients.    He then worked for Eze Castle Integration as a systems engineer consultant building and supporting hedge fund client's  IT backbone.  Diamondback Capital Advisors, one of Eze Castle's clients, recruited Christian to build and support their IT infrastructure. During Diamondback Capital's startup phase, Christian was able to design and implement scalable, cutting-edge technologies to ensure Diamondback's fast pace growth from one office with $500 million AUM to three offices with $4.5 billion AUM in under 3 years.  He also managed a close-knit IT team at Diamondback supporting hundreds of servers, real-time market data feeds and over 200 users.  Christian holds numerous certifications in Fortinet, Cisco, and Microsoft technologies.  He also possesses a black-belt in Tae Kwon Do and enjoys playing guitar, bass and drums. 

Phil Sisca
Vice President of Product Development

Phil Joined RTTT in September 2010.  Phil leads a collaborative effort on the design of an effective user experience with TrendLens. He also assists our sales team by directing many of our client demonstrations, bringing valuable customer feedback to us as our products continually evolve. Formerly, Phil was Director of FX Trading at E*TRADE Financial Corporation. He joined E*TRADE to work with the technology and product teams to build the firm's "Global Trading" platform, and devise a front-end system to "mark-up" and monitor the FX component of  its clients' trading activity. Once the product was officially launched, he directed a global team of traders to manage the associated FX risk, incorporating additional FX flows from various E*TRADE lines of business. He also devised vital protocols for E*TRADE's Clearing and Payments Services units. Phil composed a daily strategy report for his trading team, based on fundamental and technical analysis. He was regularly consulted by ETFC's Corporate Treasury on the effective hedging of significant balance sheet-related FX. Phil personally maintained a network of contacts in the interbank market to share global-macro strategy and information-which continues to this day. 

Prior to joining E*TRADE, Phil was a proprietary trader in the interbank FX market for over 22 years, with the majority of his experience at Wells Fargo and Standard Chartered Bank. He holds several FINRA licenses, adding the Series 24 to his resume in the summer of 2010. Besides his devotion to the markets, Phil's other passion is teaching young athletes as an AAU and CYO basketball coach.

Christopher DiBiccari
Vice President of Human Resources. 

Chris joined RTTT in July 2008. Chris handles the company's human resource function. Chris has worked in Human Resource, Operations and Finance roles for the likes of JP Morgan Chase, Greenwich Capital, Time Warner Cable, and Gartner.  Chris has an MBA in Finance from Adelphi University and a BS of Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College. Chris enjoys giving back to the community, witnessed by his former role of being Chairman of the Food for the Homeless organization for his childhood parish and continues to volunteer for a variety of worthwhile causes. In his spare time, Chris enjoys gathering with family and friends over food and drink, both of which he often grows and prepares himself. In addition, Chris is an organic gardening aficionado, who enjoys cooking, golf, fitness, and supporting his two daughter's passion for dance and the arts.                        

Jonathan O'Connor
Business Development Executive North East Region

Jon joined RTTT in April 2011. Jon has been involved with several aspects of the financial services industry throughout his career. Most recently, Jon managed a commercial real estate portfolio of 1.5mm sft. for Seaboard Properties. Prior to Seaboard Jon was a Sr. Relationship Manager for the algorithmic trading team at Knight Capital Group where he oversaw a client list that included several of the industry's most successful hedge fund and mutual funds. Mr. O'Connor honed his skills and knowledge of the financial markets as an equity sales trader for Doyle, Miles & Co. and as a trader for Lynx Capital Partners where he earned his NASD Series 7, 55 and 63 licenses.  Jon brings his intricate knowledge of the financial markets, algorithmic trading, portfolio management as well as countless market data and software platforms to the RTTT Business Development efforts. Jon holds a BA in Philosophy from Trinity College where he was a member of the varsity lacrosse team.

Robert Heppenstall
Senior Software Engineer

Robert joined in April 2011. Robert is responsible for the design and development of the Server-Side components of the RTTT product stack. Prior to joining RTTT Robert  worked at a variety of Financial Services providers, among them TIAA-CREF, Citigroup and Instinet. He has built Algorithmic Trading Engines, Exchange Connectivity and Order Routing Applications. A huge motor racing fan Robert spends most of his spare time travelling to and from racing venues.

Dante Sarigumba
Senior Software Engineer

Dante joined in April of 2011. Dante leads client side software development. Dante has been building software applications for the past seventeen years. His breath of experience in developing software solutions encompasses the small devices like Smartphone's to large systems with hundreds of thousands of users. Prior to joining RTTT, Dante worked at TIAA-CREF as a Lead Developer in building Quantitative Trading Systems. Prior TIAA-CREF, he developed systems for several Financial companies including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Barclays  Capital. He also provided consulting services to IBM and United Parcel Service for a number of years. Dante is an electronic gadget enthusiasts and a co-author of several "For Dummies" books including BlackBerry for Dummies.

John Antonelli
Senior Applications Analyst

John joined in December 2007. Johns experience is in both product management and  support - working with the product development team in assisting in the development of current and future enhancements for our software. Prior to RTTT, John worked at Thomson Financial/Reuters as a Director of Operations for the Investment Research and Investment Manager Database. Prior to that, John worked at Savin Corporation where he was in charge of US Navy contract and in charge of supplying copiers to the United States Navy during the first Gulf War. John received a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University in management and communication in 1986 and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. John enjoys music and has been playing the guitar and bass for 30 years and spends a good deal of his free time writing and recording music.

Paul De Rosa
Customer Relationship Manager

Paul joined RTTT in August 2009. Paul designed the customer relationship management infrastructure to streamline the needs of Customer service, Sales, and Technical support.  Through email, web-based and telephone support, management can monitor service trends, client product request and Sales Opportunities. Prior to customer service, Paul worked on the Quality Assurance team - responsibilities included confirming the product is performing to the design specifications by building strategy's and portfolios, defining allocation and exit rules, and verifying Backtest results are consistent with actual market data.. Prior to joining RTTT, Paul was the Executive Fleet Manager of Mercedes Benz in Greenwich, CT, where he developed a Fleet department to manage new corporate accounts and maintaining strong relationships. Paul currently has over 20 years experience in sales and customer relationship management. In Paul's spare time he enjoys boating and boxing.  He also an active member for both GARP and NESA.

Bill Marino
Quality Assurance Team Lead

Billy joined RTTT's predecessor – SAK Associates/Tiger Corp – in November 2006.  Bill is currently utilizing his previous experience by leading the Quality Assurance team in testing TrendLens to ensure its stability and functionality.  At RTTT, he previously worked with the development team in developing new products, a more detailed securities rating system, as well as working with the trading team in developing and testing risk management models.  Bill also assists with building and construction management, as needed.  Bill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University with some additional coursework in Environmental Engineering and Materials Science.  Prior to working with RTTT, Bill worked for Purdue Pharma L.P. – a privately held pharmaceutical company – as a Project Engineer at their former Research and Development facility in Ardsley, NY, aiding in pilot scale chemical process development, facility design (laboratories, data centers, and document archives), construction management, relocations, validations (process, facility, and computer systems), process equipment qualifications, and process equipment management.  In his spare time, Bill teaches percussion for two competitive high school marching programs.

Jeremy Sage
QA Analyst

Jeremy joined in July 2007.  Jeremy started as a trader/trade assistant for Real Time Trading Technologies.  He contributed various ideas that helped with the development of the proprietary software indicators. Currently, Jeremy is working on the Quality Assurance team.   He ensures that the software is performing to the design specifications. He attends daily meetings to help improve TrendLens.  Jeremy graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May of 2005 where he majored in Finance.  Shortly after graduating he worked as a financial planner at AXA advisors where he obtained his series 7, series 63, series 55, and series 65 licenses.  In his spare time, Jeremy enjoys golf, tennis, racquetball, skiing, weight lifting and exercise.

Stacy Carlucci
Executive Assistant/Benefits Administrator

Stacy joined RTTT in June 2007. Stacy administers the employee benefits program and assists the executives with other various tasks such as accounts payable & receivable, and building management.  Prior to joining RTTT, Stacy was with The Coastal Group, a marketing firm in New York City as an Account Coordinator. Stacy also worked at Mercedes Benz of Greenwich, where she assisted the Sales Management and Business Development teams.  In her spare time, Stacy enjoys spending time watching and appreciating her two children grow.