FinTech Magazine - July 2021 | Page 33

SAPHYRE
GABINO ROCHE TITLE : CEO in under six months to meet market deadlines .
INDUSTRY : FINANCIAL SERVICES LOCATION : NEW YORK , UNITED STATES
Gabino has over 20 years of experience in building technology solutions for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups from the 1990s Dot-com era till now .
It was here where he unearthed valuable insights on how to structure pre-trade data and documents , invent an intuitive and expedited onboarding process powered by patented AI in order to resolve many of the trading and posttrade issues , leading to his creation of his own fintech startup : Saphyre .
He ’ s a former McKinsey & Company firm member , where he learned and was focused on delivering products faster to market . This enabled him to take on a role at NYSE as Managing Director of application development to help their startup division ramp towards a US $ 1bn revenue goal .
Later , he worked as a Senior VP at JP Morgan executing transformation programs in business operations , overseeing technology and operational process initiatives such as delivering a US $ 40mn product in their custody portfolio , and helping to revamp the Corporate Investment Bank ’ s ( CIB ) KYC / AML operations .

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That experience set him up for JPMorgan ’ s senior management to ask him to take on the Head of Product role at Clarient , a fintech startup consortium put together by JP Morgan , Goldman Sachs , State Street , Credit Suisse , Barclays and DTCC . While there , he oversaw an $ 80mn budget and transformed the company ’ s operations , technology , and product with his team