Todd is a visionary and charismatic leader experienced in AI, Banking, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Payments, and SaaS technologies who can formulate strategies and drive execution for high-impact global sales, services, marketing, and operations teams from the ground up. Todd is always striving for continuous improvements and leads by example with excellent communication with C-level decision-makers.
Todd is an expert at implementing multi-channel sales, business development, and strategic partnerships and alliances to gain a competitive advantage and overachieve revenue and profit targets. Skilled in translating vision into strategy and planning and executing multifaceted sales and market expansion programs. Equally successful within Startup, Rapid Growth, Turnaround, pre-IPO, and public companies.
Todd pioneered Digital Asset Custody-as-a-Service and spearheaded the vision, architecture, design, development, and deployment of the Investor Services Cloud Platform™ (ISCP) providing an ultra-secure, real-time, fully automated, always-on, scalable, zero-trust cloud-based set of APIs and Database Model used by the next-generation Robo-Advisors and Financial Service firms including Acorns, LendingClub, and Wealthfront.
Todd developed the Strategy, Products, Technology, Sales, Marketing, and Operations at Forge Trust to substantially grow the clients and assets under custody. Liaising with operational groups, clients, and providers, Todd defined new market segments and created the products, business models, and processes that reshaped the company’s future growth for years to come. Under Todd’s vision and leadership, client accounts grew from 38 thousand in 2013 to over 600 thousand in 2018, and assets under custody from $3 billion to over $10 billion.
Prior to this, Todd was responsible for the strategic ISV relationships for IBM and SAP. He also served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Instantis before it was acquired by Oracle.
During the late 1990s, Todd played a significant role in addressing the challenges posed by the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem, particularly through his work to enhance COBOL’s capabilities and authoring a standard Date function ensuring that businesses could address the Y2K challenge effectively, maintaining the reliability and functionality of their critical systems.
In 1997, under Todd’s vision and leadership, Fujitsu introduced NetCOBOL, a groundbreaking compiler that enabled the deployment of COBOL applications onto web-based systems by generating 100% pure Java bytecode from existing COBOL programs. This advancement was crucial for organizations relying on COBOL, as it provided a pathway to update and maintain their systems in preparation for Y2K.
Through these initiatives, Todd significantly contributed to the global effort to mitigate Y2K-related risks and ensuring that legacy systems could transition smoothly into the new millennium.
Todd attended MIT, Stanford University, and Vanguard University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Communication. Bio, Resume, Headshot