Benjamin Sanders - Chief Technology Officer, Machinetrader.io

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Work Background

The New SchoolAssistant Vice President for Emerging Technology

Sep. 2019 - Nov. 2022New York, New York

MachineTrader.io Inc.Co-Founder and CTO

Mar. 2017Greater New York City Area · Hybrid• Founding partner and CTO for MachineTrader.io, a true low-code/no-code Independent Trading Platform that allows our customers to conceptualize, test, and implement algorithmic trading strategies for equities and cryptocurrencies without writing a single line of code. • Conceptualized, architected, and led our development team to build our entire low-code solution, which is tailor-made for individual traders yet offers best-in-class tools for family offices, mid-cap hedge funds, and asset management companies. • Designed and implemented full platform stack for the company, including Kubernetes on AWS compute cluster, platform code, data validation, and cleansing pipelines, data vendor API integrations, monitoring and alert modules, and coding standards and processes. • Lead our consulting practice and platform sales division, plan roadmap and strategies for company growth, and work with the advisory board and founders to raise friends and family, angels, and larger rounds of financing.

Resolute Digital, LLCFounder / Managing Technical Partner

Oct. 2008 - Jan. 2017Greater New York City Area• Founded Resolute Digital, LLC, a full-service digital agency serving clients with strong creative, technical, and search engine management expertise • Responsible for all things technical, from hands-on programming and mentorship of engineers to high-level strategic technical sales and planning for clients • Conceived of and implemented several business lines including web development, mobile web and app development, an iPad publishing group, and a data-driven analytics and search marketing group. • Recruited exceptional job candidates via diverse traditional and digital routes for suitability for key positions • Set and administered annual operating budget, consistently maintaining controls and preventing overages • Grew Resolute from a 4-person startup to over $30mm/year in billings • Named to the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list twice: #1010 in 2013, and #3773 in 2014 • Sold Resolute in December 2017 to IPG

Marketmaker InteractiveMarketmaker Interactive – New York, NY

Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2008Greater New York City Area• Leveraged experience at Tradecomet and joined MMi along with my partner in that business in order to bring a fusion of SEO (Search Optimization), SEM (Search Marketing) and technical expertise to the business. • Grew MMi’s development business from nothing to $1.5MM in revenue in its first year

Tradecomet.com, LLC Chief Technology Officer

Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2008Greater New York City Area• Grew sourcetool.com, a business-to-business directory publisher monetized via advertising revenue, from nothing to over 600,000 unique visitors daily, and $4MM revenue in its first year. • Provided constant thought leadership to help Sourcetool evolve both its revenue and business model as google, its primary ad revenue source, was keeping an ever-increasing piece of internet advertising revenue and traffic as a whole. • Designed and developed several highly automated systems - a combination of custom software and best-in-industry offerings - to perform analytics on traffic, users, revenue, and costs on keyword, category, and ad networks.

Realitivity Ventures, IncFounding Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Jan. 2000 - Jan. 2005Greater New York City Area• Realitivity Ventures, Inc. offered high-level strategy and application development to its clients.

BBDO WorldwideChief Technology Officer

Jan. 1999 - Jan. 2000Greater New York City Area• Joined @tmosphere Interactive as the third hire, the Chief Technology Officer • Built and led a growing team of software and technical staff, ultimately growing @tmosphere to 30 full time employees and a dozen technical staff in the first year.

Chase Manhattan BankVice President

Jan. 1998 - Jan. 1999Greater New York City Area• Took over Chase Manhattan Bank’s OFX (Open Financial Exchange) middleware, and within 2 months brought in-house, hired a team, and led completion of this project. • Grew responsibilities to include the overall technical direction and development of the Retail Internet Group, including ongoing management of the OFX (Open Financial Exchange) project, the Customer Service Email Dispatcher, Chase's Brokerage offering, and several future Internet enabled eCommerce solutions including iCOB, Chase's Internet Banking solution. • Built and managed a staff of 7 direct reports and provide technical / business guidance to an additional 15.

OgilvyOne WorldwideTechnical Director

Jan. 1997 - Jan. 1998Greater New York City Area• Initially contracted by Ogilvy Interactive to develop core technologies and practices for the Interactive group at a time when they lacked any in-house technical competencies, and expanded role to included technical direction, guidance, and expertise to the Interactive division of OgilvyOne Worldwide. • Ultimately turned over a staff of 10 to my successor

PantoneSenior Developer

Jan. 1996 - Jan. 1997Carlstadt, NJ• Designed a corporate and technical strategy for Pantone to control color management and specification for the internet and developed a business model for delivery of Pantone's Internet products online to customers and turned the Internet into a profit center. • Proposed this strategic direction to the Senior Vice President of Electronic Color Systems and worked together to redirect all development efforts towards the Internet, encompassing the efforts of a four-person development team.

PantoneMacintosh Developer

Jan. 1995 - Jan. 1996Carlstadt, NJ• C/C++/Assembly Developer for Pantone's ColorDrive application, with concurrent development of several extensions and plugins for the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

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