Experience, connections, and perspective
Feargal O'Sullivan
USAM’s Chief Executive Officer, Feargal, is a proven business leader with the rare ability to blend business acumen and deep technical knowledge. With over 20 years of experience at BlackRock, Reuters, and NYSE, Feargal understands the needs of clients and vendors in equal measure.
Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre is a marcomms professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic and operational fintech sector marketing. As the former regional VP of Marketing at SIX Financial, she developed and implemented multi-faceted initiatives to support regional and international growth. Deirdre is a skilled wordsmith specializing in distilling key service benefits and communicating value through an optimal mix of activities to drive awareness and generate leads.
Scott Gallagher
Scott Gallagher is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive who has worked at various firms, including small start-ups and large publicly traded enterprises. Individual producer, sales manager, product manager, and P&L owner are just a few of his former roles.
Neil Chinai
Charmaine Athaide
Claudio Sanniti
Claudio is an IT executive with 25+ years of experience leading enterprise global accounts and engagements. His passion for leveraging technology to enhance the client experience has driven his success in building relationships and facilitating strategy, planning, and executing solutions that solve business issues. Claudio has held senior IT leadership roles at major financial firms such as RBC, CIBC, Citibank, and Merrill Lynch in Toronto, NY, and London.
Todd Klein
Mick Coffey
Mick Coffey is a seasoned executive with over a decade of experience in the FX and Market Data arenas. Following his role as an SVP in HSBC’s global FX E-Commerce team, Mick worked for three years ITG, where he was part of a small team that created their Agency FX Desk. Mick is also a former employee of TIBCO, Thomson ILX, and Merrill Lynch.
Jordan Pasternak
Jordan is a highly successful enterprise salesperson who spent most of his career working with early-stage technology and alternative data providers. As a previous founder, Jordan deeply understands the unique challenges young companies face and how valuable they can be to established firms in addressing vexing challenges.
Johnny Huh
Johnny is an accomplished leader in electronic trading and fintech. A proven builder of high-performing teams, he has driven sustainable revenue growth and set strategic direction for organizations ranging from global enterprises to startups he co-founded. Johnny’s impact is rooted in deep industry expertise and a keen ability to spot new opportunities to increase market share.
Robert Poppema
Based in New York, Robert Poppema is a highly skilled licensing compliance executive with 25 years of software and data sales experience. Throughout his career with industry-leading firms such as S&P and Bloomberg, Robert has consistently demonstrated an ability to cultivate mutually rewarding, long-term business relationships.
Shane Syed
Shane is a seasoned wealth management and fintech executive with over two decades of experience building cross‑border businesses for leading global banks and technology firms. Drawing on deep, hands‑on knowledge of how technology drives business outcomes, he helps financial institutions deploy practical, revenue‑generating solutions that enhance client experience and scale AUM.
Jiahui Lu
Jiahui is a data science professional with a successful history of mining structured and text data to predict outcomes across a wide variety of investment and public sentiment scenarios. This combination of skills has proved instrumental for the continuous programmatic improvement of USAM’s Sales Slicer benchmarks for sales success. A talented academic, Jiahui earned her Master’s in Engineering with honors from Cornell University and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wuhan University in China.
Adam Bryan
Our COO and Strategic Advisor Adam Bryan is an accomplished C-level executive with extensive hands-on experience successfully nurturing companies through periods of growth or turbulence. His financial acumen, strong management skills, and capable mentoring have helped build effective teams and sustainable development for companies in fintech, data, software, and more.
Lynn Larson
Lynn Larson is an experienced executive focused on vendor management, procurement, HR, and finance. Over her 20+ year career, she has consistently contributed to corporate agility and results by streamlining back-office programs, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency. Lynn has the gift of effective communication and uses it to build consensus and inspire action across the full spectrum of company stakeholders and customers.