About Solve

Founded in 2011, Solve’s mission is to deliver transparency to the famously opaque bond markets. We provide the bond industry with the most comprehensive, accurate, and real-time information and workflow tools available.

Here’s how

	We house the largest dataset (500,000+) of bids, offers and market color across five asset classes (Structured Products, Corporates, Bank Loans, CDS, and Municipals).
	Powered by machine learning and natural language processing, our sophisticated, flexible technology collects more data and market color when and how you need it.
	Our powerful workflow tools eliminate the hassle of the BWIC process, consolidate dealer inventories and streamline month-end for the back office, all in one place and at your fingertips.

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Our Team

The Solve team has extensive expertise and passion for financial markets and developing innovative technology.

Eugene Grinberg, CFA
Co-founder, President, and CEO

Eugene Grinberg, CFA Co-founder, President, and CEO

Eugene Grinberg is Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Solve Advisors. He draws on more than 15 years developing enterprise financial technology; structuring, modeling, and assessing relative value opportunities; and building analytics for structured products and other illiquid investments.

Prior to co-founding Solve, Eugene was Vice President and Co-Head of Analytics at Houlihan Lokey (Red Pine Advisors), where he conducted valuations and built analytical tools to price complex and illiquid securities. He also previously held roles as Vice President of Financial Engineering at Duff & Phelps, conducting valuations of complex securities, and as Head of Information Services and Vice President of Structured Credit at ACA Capital, building systems to manage more than $90 billion AUM.

Eugene earned his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

Gerard Nealon
Co-founder, President, and CEO

Gerard Nealon, Co-founder, President, and CEO

Gerard Nealon is Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Solve Advisors. He draws on more than 15 years of experience in systems architecture and development, RMBS/CMBS modeling, and analytical tool-building for esoteric securities.

Prior to co-founding Solve Advisors, Gerard was Vice President and co-Head of Analytics at Houlihan Lokey (Red Pine Advisors), where he built analytical tools in order to price complex and illiquid securities and designed a fully distributed computation grid. Before Houlihan Lokey, Gerard was a Project Manager at Sandell Asset Management where he implemented real-time P&L applications, designed complex genetic algorithms and developed a fully distributed web crawler. Before Sandell, Gerard was a Lead Software Architect at ACA Capital where he built the architecture of a firm-wide platform that helped manage over $90bn in risk positions.

Gerard earned his Master’s in Cryptography and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Michael Pascuma
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development

Michael Pascuma, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development

Michael Pascuma is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development for Solve Advisors. He draws on more than 15 years of experience in Fixed Income, Credit Derivative Indices, Swaptions, CDS, Corporates, and Equities.

Michael was previously Head of Index Trading, Americas at Nomura Securities, trading High Yield and Investment Grade Credit Derivative Indices. While at Nomura, Michael was a lead architect of Nomura’s Credit Franchise, from the ground up. Prior to that, Michael held senior roles at leading financial institutions Lehman Brothers and Barclay’s, where he performed high-level operational and front-office roles and specialized in the Credit Markets.

Michael earned a B.A. in Finance and Business Administration from Sacred Heart University’s John F. Welch AACSB Accredited College of Business. He is a Member of the Sacred Heart Department of Economics and Finance Advisory Council.

Joseph Plastina
Chief Financial Officer

Joseph Plastina, Chief Financial Officer

Joseph Plastina is Chief Financial Officer of Solve Advisors.

Joe brings to Solve 20 years of experience as a finance, corporate development, strategy and operations executive at enterprise technology companies, including experience purchasing and selling more than $4 billion-worth in enterprise software companies.

Prior to joining Solve, Joe was a trusted consultant and fractional CFO to several private equity-backed firms. Before that, he was a senior executive at Aventri, Broadridge, BridgeLoanNetwork, Triple Point Technology, ION Trading and Misys plc (Finastra).

Joe was previously a software engineer and operations executive. He earned his M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Keenan Marshall
Chief Technology Officer

Keenan Marshall, Chief Technology Officer

Keenan Marshall is Chief Technology Officer of Solve Advisors. In this role, he oversees all aspects of Solve’s product development and client and technology partner integrations.

With more than 15 years of experience in software design, development, implementation and project management, Keenan specializes in cloud-based systems integration and parallel architecture and computing.

Prior to Solve Advisors, Keenan was the Director of Software Development at Hi-Tek Data, Corp. as the Head Project Manager and Lead Developer where he designed and developed various complex applications for a wide variety of companies.

Keenan earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Michael Pellerito
Managing Director

Michael Pellerito, Managing Director

Michael Pellerito is responsible for product development, strategic partnerships and growth initiatives for Solve’s real-time message parsing and market price data and valuation products.

Prior to joining Solve, Michael was head of Bloomberg BVAL Evaluated Pricing Service’s Government, Supranational, Agency and Corporate (GSAC) pricing group, having spearheaded the development of sophisticated pricing/risk models and overall growth of the evaluated pricing business. His work there culminated in Bloomberg’s the acquisition of Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions Ltd. (BRAIS).

Prior to Bloomberg, Michael held trading, portfolio management and analyst positions at Morgan Stanley, BHF Capital, Natixis, and JPMorgan Chase.

Michael holds an MBA from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Joseph M. Pimbley, PhD
Advisory Board Member

Joseph M. Pimbley, PhD, Advisory Board Member

Joseph M. Pimbley is Principal of Maxwell Consulting. He is a highly respected expert in complex financial instruments, financial risk management, structured products, derivatives and quantitative algorithms.

As such, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Risk Professional and of the Strategic Advisory Board of ARMA International, LLC. A prolific writer, Joseph has authored more than 35 finance and nearly 100 physics, engineering, and mathematics articles, and presented more than 60 finance lectures for professional audiences.

Joseph holds more than 10 patents and pending patents for engineering inventions.

James Perello
Advisory Board Member

James Perello, Advisory Board Member

James Perello draws on more than 20 years in credit trading and credit workflow software development.

A serial entrepreneur, James founded LiquidityLink, CodeStreet, and Konnect2, each of which focused on solutions in the credit trading industry. Notably, James was awarded a patent (US20080208732) for design of corporate bond trading software (currently held by Tradeweb).

Prior to his entrepreneurial career, James traded Fixed Income at Goldman Sachs.

James earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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