President, Co-founder

Before co-founding TraderTools in 1997, Mr. Heidingsfeld established and operated a private equity hedge fund specializing in FX, interest rate and index option trading. Aside from actively trading in FX and options markets, he gained extensive software experience, from design to implementations. Prior to that he was a trader and investment counselor at Oscar Gruss and Son Inc. in Tel Aviv. Also holding positions at the head office of Israel Discount Bank in Tel Aviv and Standard & Poor’s in New York. He holds a BA in Business Administration and International Finance from the Bernard M Baruch College of Business of the City University if New York.

Chief Financial Officer

Before joining TraderTools in 2012 Santo was CFO at AirVersent Inc and co-founded Emergent Communications Inc, both SaaS companies. Santo is also a co-Founder and President of the SaaS e-learning provider LearningSpan Inc. He began his career in the New York office of KPMG. He then went on to hold financial positions of increasing responsibility at a publicly traded chemical manufacturer, CFO at a publicly traded wireless communications company and CFO of SIP Communications Inc, a VoIP spin-out from Columbia University’s Science and Technology Ventures unit. Santo is a 1982 graduate of the University of Scranton in Scranton PA.

Chief Technology Officer

Roi Illouz joined TraderTools as Chief Technology Officer in 2021 and leads the TraderTools research and development team. After working in the defense sector, Roi was a tech lead for the Waves Audio world renowned SoundGrid system. Roi brings extensive expertise in RT, RT networking and the Linux operating system.

Director

After joining TraderTools in 2004 as a developer, Gil has held positions as a Technical Lead, Team Lead, Senior Team Lead and his current position, VP of R&D. During his climb he has led multiple teams making overall performance improvements and integrating new LP connectors technology. Additionally, he has led the building of our monitoring and order flow system over elasticsearch technology and the build out of our new technology framework. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Executive VP of Sales

John Bogue joined TraderTools in 2021 as Director, EMEA FX and in 2022 was promoted to Executive VP of Sales. Before TraderTools, John held several senior positions at international banks in London, both in Foreign Exchange trading and Prime Brokerage, including 10 years with NatWest Markets plc FXPB and 8 years as Senior Spot FX Sales Trader at Raiffeisen Bank International AG. In 2015 John moved to New York joining FastMatch Inc. as Chief Operating Officer to assist in the post January 2015 SNB event re-launch and eventual sale to Euronext Group.

VP, Global Customer Service

David Maman joined TraderTools in 2019 in the position of Account Project Manager. He is responsible for managing relationships with key TraderTools regional bank and FX broker customers. David brings over fifteen years of experience in Customer Support and Account Management in fintech software products on an international basis, with six years serving in the FX trading space. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Aix-en-Provence University in France.