Timeline Stories

 Kirat and Mark take their decades of combined experience to create a flexible, end-to-end, cloud-based platform.  Beacon is the culmination of our founders’ life work to create the only platform your business will need.

Kirat begins at Bank of America as Managing Director and Head of Global Risk Systems, building the Quartz integrated trading, position management, pricing, risk management, and trading platform.

Kirat and Mark move to JPMorgan to start Athena, its cross-asset market risk, trading and quant platform. Athena uses a rapid development and deployment model to put developers at the core of the business.

Kirat Singh starts his career at Goldman Sachs, as a core developer of SecDB. Mark Higgins joins Goldman Sachs as a Strategist building functionality in SecDB.

The first institutional quant platform, known as Securities Database or SecDB, is developed and becomes the backbone of Goldman Sachs trading and risk management.