James Dennelly, MBA, CFA

Experience

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  FNX Limited

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2007

  Supervised leadership teams, administered strategic planning, and directed daily operations, including staffing, cash flow, forecasting management, contract negotiations, project management, and customer oversight.• $5+ million annual revenue stream enabled by constructing and marketing a professional services offering, allowing staff to assume full-time onsite responsibilities of first-line product support and testing new software versions at client facilities.• Inflated revenues and curtailed costs by enhancing organizational effectiveness, streamlining operations, instilling accountability, and leading strategic planning and execution for daily operations, including staffing, cash flow, forecasting, contract negotiations, project management, and customer oversight. • Successfully led the sale of FNX to GL Trade by collaborating with senior leadership and the board of directors to overcome internal conflicts and devise a product strategy, building a high-value portfolio to attract potential buyers.• Developed Cloud-Based Offering and penetrated new markets by spearheading a team that altered the architecture of a licensed solution allowing for a user-preferred SAAS offered solution backed by a new SAAS department to support the technology for the client’s daily operations. Show less Led teams to consolidate five separate product lines into one functional product and development group. $8+ million spike in sales incurred and eight treasury sales championed by partnering with an organization to cross-sell products as an integrated solution.• Satisfied client expectations by leading a project for changing the system architecture from a database-driven model to a message base and stateless share memory server-based solution.• $8 million in professional service revenues produced, $4 million in license revenues yielded, and $2 million in reoccurring maintenance fees delivered by instituting the company’s first high-volume global FX payment solution.• 50% cutback in development and support costs for product lines realized and enriched the support structure by establishing and integrating an offshore development and testing center.• 50% proliferation in new employee performance fostered and 30% advancement in new staff retention created by collaborating to build out a twelve-week training program for new personnel encompassing all product and technical functions and providing ongoing mentoring.• 30% boost in efficiency reached for resource utilization by integrating five different product teams into more functional based groups. Show less Recruited to build a start up development and business analyst group to create and implement Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivative strategy for this start up company.• Led project team’s implementation of Fixed Income and IRD solutions for global trading desks at firms like SMBC, Nippon Credit Bank, Peregrine Securities, Credit Suisse and many others. • Built out team of 25 developers and 10 business analysts that created a complete front to back Fixed Income and Interest rate derivative solution. • Expanded product line from start-up to over $8 million in annual revenues in three years Show less

  • President

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  • Head of Product Management

    Jan 1999 - Dec 2003

  • Fixed Income Product Manager

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
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  Gl Trade

  Mar 2007 - Jan 2009

  President of Capital Markets Group

  President of Capital Market Group Led a team that successfully integrated the operations of three business lines—collaborated to develop a capital market strategy and technical direction and establish the portfolio.• 25%+ enhancement in overall reporting and functional development delivered by integrating three global operating units across four development centers into one functional group.• Facilitated improved decision-making in the capital market and digital technology spaces by serving as a member of the firm’s senior management team to clarify how JAVA technology impacted business success.• Launched new global and domestic markets by developing and leading a team that built, marketed, sold, and implemented a Digital retail FX margining solution. Show less

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  SunGard - now part of FIS

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  Senior Vice President of Capital Markets Group

  Operated two major global digital product lines and supervised all aspects of the business, including building budgets, developing product roadmaps, and managing development. Oversaw development team, business analysts, professional service groups, and the sales team. Responsible for each product lines’ P&L,• $5 million in professional services added and $4 million in recurring revenue produced by forging sales with one of the largest banks in the U.S.• $2 million earned and 20% growth generated YOY by collaborating with the sales and product teams to leverage alternative markets not previously approached.• Enabled market real-time digital retail e-commerce solutions by heading the transformation of an antiquated product line that was site-based to a contemporary looking and functioning digital JAVA server-based architecture with an HTML thin front-end that allowed customers to access the solution anywhere in the world through IoT.• 20%+ gain YOY cultivated by streamlining the product direction and sales efforts regarding specific markets and right-sizing staffing to allow the team to exceed revenue and EBIT targets. Show less

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  SunGard Financial Systems - now part of FIS

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

  Senior Vice President of Treasury Services & Fixed Income Services

  Senior Vice President of Treasury & Fixed Income Services | 2012 - 2015Managed the digital treasury, payment, and fixed income products. Responsible for professional services, customer support, account management, and pre-sales teams. Supervised 130 indirect reports via nine direct reports. Responsible for each product lines’ P&L, budgeting, revenue forecasting, and contract negotiations.• Led team built out Global Digital Cross Margining Solution by combining six SunGard products and building a solution roadmap enabling two of the top three largest Singapore banks to offer cross-product margining to retail and institutional clients through the Web and generated over 30 million dollars in revenues for SunGard.• 800% boost in client transaction processing accomplished and 30% decrease in the workforce attained by identifying the need of a critical client to centralize payment solutions and leading the project to build a high volume digital cash management payment system using JAVA architecture with an HTML e-commerce front end to allow the customer to automate business processes and centralized large data sets that could be analyzed to improved operational efficiency and better serve customers.• 40% reduction in time and cost captured to implement a cross-product treasury solution and expand sales beyond tier-one banks by developing and building a templated solution-based implementation for lower-tier banks. Show less

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  FIS

  Jan 2016 - Nov 2017

  Senior Vice President

  FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES | Wayne, PA Jan 2016 – Sep 2016SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF TREASURY SERVICESDirected digital treasury, payment, and fixed income products. Responsible for professional services, customer support, account management, and pre-sales teams. Governed 150 indirect reports via nine direct reports. Responsible for each of the product lines’ P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and contract negotiations.• Increased customers’ retail and corporate FX Fixed Income revenues by 30% by scoping and building out a real-time digital payment/trading solution that institutions could allow customers to access through the IoT to offer automated 24/7 trading of FX. Show less

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  Senior Financial Software Executive in Greater Philadelphia Area

  Jan 2018 - Oct 2020

  Senior Financial Software Executive

  Work with private equity firms and brokerage houses performing due diligence, including analyzing and evaluating financial services, the software market, and potential opportunities.

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  Sterling Trading Tech

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2022

  Project Lead

  Project lead at Sterling Trading Technology tasked to build a digital global multi-tenet SAAS exchange product risk solution that is delivered globally via the internet for financial institutions. Responsible for business design, project management, and developing a go-to-market strategy.