Seth Gelberg

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About Seth Gelberg

High-impact, hands-on global technology leader and strategic partner with a proven track record of industry-disrupting, first-to-market products that reduce technology debt, create tech investment Alpha, and revitalize technology, teams, and operations. Deeply technical leader who drives business process transformation and champions a customer-centric viewpoint with a distinctive blend of detail,"big picture" focus, and strong system/team management. Experienced and comfortable speaking to executives, boards of directors, regulators and the public, but can still roll up my sleeves and design solutions • Executive Leadership: Secure needed approval/support from the board and key stakeholders • Regularly create and manage global teams • Known for transforming the industry with first-to-market innovations in Payments and Capital Markets - Equities, FX, Futures, and FI, incl. twice redefining how buy side interacts with liquidity • Proven strengths partnering with C-Suite, regulators, and the public to develop/deploy technology-based strategies to achieve Alpha and market differentiation, even in the most competitive global markets. • Business & Technology Transformation:Create buy-in and ownership at all levels to marshal an organization through a needed restructuring or vision change•Initiate and execute change that modernizes (Cloud native development and legacy infrastructure migration to the Cloud),optimizes (DevOps),and revolutionizes (Digital/AI) organizations and businesses • Financial Sector Contributions & Recognition: Drove the technology to rebuild RBC's Global Equities Capital Markets business, reducing capex spend by 40%, improving speed-to-market, and increasing Electronic Trading Revenues 8 fold • Led the execution of THOR, RBC’s electronic trading platform highlighted in Michael Lewis' book Flash Boys and featured on 60 Minutes • Featured & quoted in numerous industry journals, and regular speaker at industry meetings and conferences. Specialties:Technology Transformation, Operational Transformation & Strategy, cloud / enterprise / business architecture, mergers and acquisitions, financial management, software agile / DevOps development, strategy / business continuity, Chaos Engineering/Testing.