
Our mission
Our mission is to develop applications that deliver real time secure access to relevant data creating cost efficiencies and competitive advantage for those involved in primary capital markets.
We understand capital markets. Small easily adopted changes can make a big difference. We want to partner with our customers to push technological boundaries together delivering digital transformation and efficiency.
Meet the Executive Team
Now more than ever, primary capital markets professionals need to re-evaluate the sustainable growth of their business. Our vision is to make Finsmart an integral part of primary capital markets, offering uniquely designed, secure, digital tools that transform the way business is conducted.

Sotiris Manderis
Co-founder and CEO
Finsmart is the brainchild of years of knowledge and innovative thinking - Finsmart is a collaborative business bringing the best possible digital solution for primary capital markets.

Guillaume Petitgas
Co-founder and CCO
As a Debt Capital Markets specialist, I see first-hand how small changes in deal execution processes make an enormous difference in both efficiencies and returns. An easily adopted digital platform will enhance working practices in deal execution. My vision is that through Finsmart and DealPro we will deliver a unique, commercial application to optimise deal execution.

Rob Szasz
Chief Technology Officer
Having 25+ years of technology expertise in the finance sector, I have devised and implemented many secure, scalable, high performance multi-stream multi-platform systems that have also been rolled out for use across mobile platforms.
To create DealPro, I have translated the needs of all stakeholders in Debt Capital Markets onto one secure digital platform. The application will also be available across mobile platforms and will revolutionise deal execution processes creating significant efficiencies and optimising returns.
Our Advisors
Our team of highly experienced advisors are leading figures from across the banking industry. Their commitment to Finsmart reinforces the opportunity for Finsmart’s intelligent digital solutions to deliver worthwhile change in primary capital markets.

Francesco Cicero
Senior Board Advisor
Francesco joined BrickVest as Chief Product Officer, and is responsible for the company’s Product Strategy and Roadmap.
Prior to joining BrickVest, Francesco was Head of e-Trading at GFI Group, now part of BGC Partners, where he coordinated non-voice brokerage initiatives across markets and run E-credit globally. He worked between New York and London and operated across multiple national and supranational regulatory frameworks.
Francesco began his career in Italy in 1989, where he worked as a management consultant, marketing consultant and mass-media sales manager, before moving to London.
He holds an MBA from the London Business School and a degree in international business and exchange markets from IUN Naples, Italy. and is a regular lecturer on financial markets, related technologies and innovations.

Dominic Cura
Senior Board Advisor
Formally COO of Markets Electronic Trading (MET) & Commodities Technology at Deutsche Bank.
More recently focusing his time on the scaling and early growth of Fintech, Proptech & Regtech start-ups.

David Dunnigan
Senior Board Advisor
A respected authority, David is consistently recognised as a top practitioner in his field by all of the Legal Directories such as Chambers & Partners, and appears in the Legal-500 Hall of Fame.

Oliver Hawkins
Senior Board Advisor

Jean-Marc Mercier
Senior Board Advisor
Jean-Marc was a Board member at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) for 5 years, and its Deputy Chair from May 2018 to July 2022.

Bryan Pascoe
Senior Board Advisor

Patrick Schartner
Senior Board Advisor
Patrick holds a degree in Business Management from Hautes Études Commerciales in Lausanne.

John Zafar
Senior Board Advisor
Throughout his career, John’s strategic insight, entrepreneurial and creative flair, and innate ability to build strong board level teams have enabled him to create over £150m of shareholder value through top and bottom line growth throughout the economic cycle. John’s experience of leading MBO and MBI bids has led to him raising offers of a combined value of over £200m from private equity investors for a variety of potential acquisitions.
In recent years he has been invited to join the board of businesses in a Non Executive capacity by investors and founders alike, including BGF, Living Bridge, Gresham House & Maven Capital.
He also Chairs Credentially.io, which is backed by Triple Point, Steyn Capital, Pembroke Capital and Hambro Perks and has recently launched his own venture builder, Lovelace Ventures.
Get in touch
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transform the deal execution process.