Beacon is led by Wall Street technology veterans who have built, managed, and employed enterprise innovation platforms at some of the largest investment banks in the world. We have over 60 developers around the world and are actively hiring to support our clients and our company's growth.

Kirat Singh

Mark Higgins

Anya Boutov

Rich Jefferson

Sarah-Jane McColl

Farai Mtetwa

David Hooper

Ryo Shimizu

Jennifer Skrapits

Liza Horowitz

Stas Chetvertkov

Wagner Correa

Jeffrey Paz

Neil Palmer

Xavier Idrovo

Matt Murphy
Kirat Singh
Mr. Singh has had a long career as one of Wall Street’s premier technologists. Prior to co-founding Beacon Kirat spent four years launching and delivering the Quartz project at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which is now used by more than five thousand developers across the bank. Before that he launched and delivered the Athena project at JPMorgan with Dr. Higgins, and spent eight years at Goldman Sachs building the SecDB platform used across the firm.
Mark Higgins
Dr. Higgins has deep financial industry experience in quantitative research and analytics. Before co-founding Beacon in 2014 Mark spent eight years at JPMorgan, launching and delivering the Athena project, co-heading the Quantitative Research group for the investment bank, and running the electronic market-making business for currency options. Before JPMorgan he spent eight years at Goldman Sachs as a strategist on the foreign exchange and interest rate market-making desks.
Anya Boutov
Ms. Boutov has extensive experience helping financial institutions manage their trading and investment businesses in a complex regulatory environment. Prior to joining Beacon as Head of Sales in June 2017, Anya spent three years as a senior policy advisor on global capital markets and financial regulation in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Before Treasury she worked for nine years at Goldman Sachs in a variety of roles related to fixed income sales and regulatory compliance.
Rich Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, championing tools for salespeople, traders, and clients. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Rich helped build the Commodities and FX businesses at Deutsche Bank into a top-tier, award winning provider. His roles ranged from Chief Dealer for FX Options, Global Head of Commodities Sales, Global Head of Oil & Refined Products Trading, Head of Energy Derivatives Trading to, most recently, co-head of Global Commodities and Global Head of Trading.
Sarah-Jane McColl
Ms. McColl is passionate about bridging the gap between technology and client needs. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Sarah-Jane spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs leading technology teams to solve complex business problems on both the buy and sell side. Her expertise in business analysis makes a significant contribution to the success of the resulting solutions, with a strong focus on follow through to execution and providing an excellent delivery experience.
Farai Mtetwa
Mr. Mtetwa has extensive experience building tools and applications for financial services. Prior to joining Beacon in 2015, Farai spent fifteen years at Goldman Sachs leading the development of pricing, risk and lifecycle systems for commodities businesses, including physical logistics systems.
David Hooper
Mr. Hooper has significant experience architecting and developing systems for commodities markets. Prior to joining Beacon in 2016, David spent 13 years at as a senior strategist at Goldman Sachs, with broad responsibilities across deal pricing, modelling, and implementation. He specialised in building pricing, trading, and risk management systems for physical commodities, including logistics components such as freight, warehousing, and supply.
Ryo Shimizu
Mr. Shimizu has abundant experience in software engineering and financial markets. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Ryo spent ten years at Goldman Sachs Asia where he built and headed the APAC Central Risk Book and led the APAC Equities One Delta Strategies group. Before Goldman Sachs Ryo spent five years at The Mathworks, Inc. as a software engineer. Ryo serves as Representative Director of Beacon Platform K.K., working closely with Beacon’s clients throughout the region.
Jennifer Skrapits
Ms. Skrapits is strongly motivated by the people at Beacon, from first interview to onboarding and ongoing problem solving. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Jennifer worked as an equity sales trader at UBS in New York, extending her knowledge of investment banking and the financial services industry. Before Goldman Sachs she worked as a project manager and business manager at a couple of investment advisory firms.
Liza Horowitz
Ms. Horowitz is an accomplished communicator and brand developer, and brings a broad range of experience to the company. Prior to joining Beacon in 2019, Liza spent six years at Dataminr, where she leveraged the company’s artificial intelligence news monitoring system to help clients with international content and strategy development. Before that she worked as a news desk editor at Bloomberg.
Stas Chetvertkov
Mr. Chetvertkov has over 15 years of experience in pre-sales, product management, and software engineering. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Stas spent 14 years at Aspect Enterprise Solutions, a leading developer of Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) solutions, as a software engineer and technical solutions consultant. His primary area of expertise was markets for crude oil and petroleum products.
Wagner Correa
Dr. Correa has over 15 years of experience developing scalable, high-performance systems and user-friendly applications in financial services. Prior to joining Beacon in 2018, Wagner built and enhanced research, trading, risk management, and data visualization systems at a variety of firms, including IBM, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgewater Associates.
Jeffrey Paz
Mr. Paz has an extensive track record delivering business solutions in large financial services firms. Prior to joining Beacon in 2017, Jeffrey spent over 24 years at Goldman Sachs in a variety of technology roles. Most recently he was VP and senior technology lead, focused on evaluating and implementing innovative technologies for business re-alignment, regulatory reform, and new products or markets.
Neil Palmer
Mr. Palmer has over 20 years of experience in software engineering, commodity strategy, and quantitative analytics. Prior to joining Beacon in 2016, Neil was Head of Quantitative Analytics at Centrica Energy. Before that, Neil held a variety of roles leading commodities business quantitative and structuring teams at Constellation Power, BP, and Goldman Sachs.
Xavier Idrovo
Mr. Idrovo has extensive experience building and transforming service desks and support teams. Prior to joining Beacon in 2019, Xavier held a range of senior roles at Eze Castle Integration, CIT, and Williams Lea, where he provided strategic oversight and management for service desks, field service engineers, and other support functions. Xavier believes in leading teams to own the customer experience and deliver high-quality support that increases client value and retention.
Matt Murphy
Mr. Murphy has significant legal experience with intellectual property, technology licensing, data and privacy regulations, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Beacon in 2018, Matt provided legal and regulatory advice to a range of firms, in both external and in-house counsel roles. Most recently, Matt served as general counsel and corporate secretary for OpenLink Financial.