River Ventures Group

David O’Shea has been a Foreign Exchange Market Professional since 1992. Shortly after beginning his career he saw the need to focus on Emerging Markets and technology for the trading floor.

With a strong focus on business development, growth, and information retention, he was promoted to Director in 2004. Managing a large client facing risk portfolio of spot, forwards, NDFs, and IRS, he exceeded his annual revenue targets and built up trading relationships with clients. In 2007 he took over a small Payments trading book and through technology and market knowledge, increased profits by 50% as well as volumes and currencies on offer. He has been the Global Payments Coordinator since 2012. Additionally, David participated on the Global FX Technology Steering committee, was in charge of EM Price Creation and Distribution for the Americas, scripted algorithms for one of the largest platforms in the industry, and has been the primary beta-tester for all front office initiatives. David’s responsibilities have required constant contact with almost every department within the infrastructure including: Operations, Legal, Compliance, Management Committee, Sales, and Local Treasury Networks

Since the beginning of 2016, David has been consulting on market execution for financial products, XML web based trading platform creation, and implementation of the latest financial technologies including Block-Chain and Tokenization of Work Flow Progression. He is a founding partner and CEO of River Ventures Group LLC based in Westport Connecticut.

Peter Carruthers is a founding partner in River ventures Group (RVG) specializing in building out Capital Markets platforms. He currently holds the RVG title of Chief Product Officer. Areas of expertise include market execution, risk, liquidity management and regulatory compliance. Mr. Carruthers’ career spans 25 years during which he has advised a broad range of clients including public corporations, law firms, high net worth individuals and their family offices. When consulting on clients’ exposures, Mr. Carruthers follows procedures based upon his deep experience in banking and markets along with strict hedging rules.

Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Carruthers spent 3 years at P2P Cash building out a retail and corporate remittance program along with formulating trading and delivery models using Blockchain technology, both as a direct employee and as consultant. Prior to P2P he spent 15 years at Citibank, initially advising Fortune 500 and other institutional clients on FX and commodity risk management in Chicago. His concentration was the Auto, Consumer Goods and Legal sectors. In the interim, he has kept pace with the changing accounting and regulatory landscape. Mr. Carruthers then moved to New York to work with private clients and law firms, the last six years as a Director in the Capital Markets group. He has also worked at Credit Suisse/First Boston, Bank of Nova Scotia and National Westminster Bank PLC (now a division of Royal Bank of Scotland) where he started on the spot and forward market making desks before joining the institutional sales team.

Mr. Carruthers received his Bachelor of Science in Finance with a minor in Accounting at Manhattan College and completed his degree in Graduate Business Administration at Fordham University, receiving a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.

Stephen is a marketing pioneer, strategist and entrepreneur that has focused on building agencies, businesses and his career on identifying and leveraging new technologies to bring into the marketplace to drive performance and revenue.

Stephen founded The Concept Studio, a digital engagement marketing agency in ’99 and has had the privilege of working with tier one companies such as; AT&T, Disney, ABC, ESPN, NBC, FOX, NASCAR, Microsoft, Sony. Stephen is also Co-Founder of River Ventures Group, a FinTech start up and has senior leadership/advisor positions in other tech startup businesses.

Jake Pavel has over 10 years of industry experience working as a programmer, technology director and information security consultant. He specializes in application security and penetration testing with a focus on distributed systems and web and mobile applications.

Since 2012, Jake has been actively applying his knowledge and enthusiasm for Bitcoin and blockchain technology, most recently at River Ventures Group where he consults on all aspects of their technology and financial consulting and leads development efforts on internal and customer-facing projects.

Jake is also Executive Director at The Concept Studio, a full-service digital agency located in Westport, CT.

Admitted to practice law in state and federal trial and appellate courts of New York, New Jersey. Admitted to practice in the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Serves as National Secretary and Director, Member of Executive Committee of the Ireland US Council for Commerce & Industry, General Counsel and Director of Gentlemen's Gym Non-Profit Inner-City (Boston) Boxing Club, General Counsel and Director of Clapboard Hill Advisors, LLC.,General Counsel and Director to Health Referral Network, LLC, General Counsel and Director to Provider Services Nationwide, LLC, General Counsel and Director to emQual,LLC, & General Counsel and Director to Cybermedia, LLC, General Counsel to Dental Marketing, LLC, Outside General Counsel to Orbis International, Inc., General Counsel and BOD Member Sunsational Designs, LLC.

Past Interim Secretary and Outside General Counsel of Tradeware Global Corp, Past General Counsel of Blacksmith Brands Inc., past General Counsel and BOD Member Woovite, LLC

Mr. Meyer is a Professor of Practice in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado, and MBA from Northwestern University, and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Mr. Meyer teaches and writes about strategic management and entrepreneurship.

Prior to working in academia, Mr. Meyer has worked in process automation, banking, alternative investments, algorithmic trading, and technology, in both large firms and new ventures.

Proprietor of Nahe LLC development software.

Paul Callahan has been a Foreign Exchange Market Professional since 1987. Paul began his career as a highly successful voice broker in the FX Forwards markets, brokering swaps primarily in the Japanese Yen.

In the mid 1990s as it became clear to Paul that technology would increasingly change the FX landscape, he changed along with it. Moving away from traditional voice brokering Paul joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 1994. Paul built sales teams in both NY and London and worked with development to build and distribute the first screen based electronic trading system to the FX Forwards markets.

In 2000 Paul was hired by Bloomberg LP to manage , develop and grow a hybrid voice brokered and screen based electronic trading system for the newly deregulated US electricity markets , focusing exclusively on California and the west. In 2004 Paul returned to FX to manage the FX Forward Matching business for Thomson Reuters . In 2012 after the TR acquisition of Fxall , Paul was asked to oversee the development, integration and distribution for the Americas of the new FXT trading aggregator. Along with dozens of new enhancements FXT combined the TR Matching and FXall platforms in a single software application replacing the legendary TR Dealing system.

After a 15 year career at Thomson Reuters Paul left in June of 2019 to pursue new opportunities.