Shawn Findlan

Current

• Member, Board of Directors at Evident Software
• Advisory Board at Vyatta, Inc
• Managing Partner at West Avenue Capital

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Past

• Executive Director, Global Strategic Engineering & Architecture at Morgan Stanley
• Vice President - Global Credit & Emerging Markets Infrastructure / Architecture at JP Morgan Chase
• VP - Rgnl Americas Infrastructure Manager, Credit, Fixed Income, Emerging Markets, Futures & Options at JPMorgan

• Vice President - Global Credit Infrastructure Manager at JPMorgan
• Vice President - Asia Technology Infrastructure Manager at JPMorgan
• Vice President - Equities Asia Technology Infrastructure Manager at JPMorgan

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Shawn Findlan’s Summary

Proven track record as a successful IT Executive leveraging technology as a market differentiator and business investment at Tier-1 financial services firms. Expertise in successfully delivering complex analysis and strategic technology plans in large enterprises. Demonstrated ability to deliver IT solutions to meet business needs through award-winning innovation, big-picture thinking, global awareness and a driven, goal-oriented approach.
Proven success in business development for new venture / emerging technology companies. In depth expertise with data center, network, virtualization, cloud computing, high performance / grid computing and systems infrastructure solutions.

Shawn Findlan’s Specialties:

Global Infrastructure, Infrastructure Architecture, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtualized Computing, Trading Technology Systems, Data Center Projects, Trading Floor Projects, Experienced Team Manager, Large Scale Program Manager, Automated Application & Infrastructure Provisioning, Infrastructure & Application Monitoring, Machine to Machine Communication, Policy-based Computing, Artificial Intelligence

Shawn Findlan’s Experience

• Member, Board of Directors

  Evident Software

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year )

• Advisory Board

  Vyatta, Inc

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

• Managing Partner

  West Avenue Capital

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  West Avenue Capital is a multifaceted business focused on funding and developing some of the most innovative technology ventures in the market today. West Avenue Capital provides funding services, West Avenue Partners provides business development services to take companies & products to market.

• Executive Director, Global Strategic Engineering & Architecture

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)

  July 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Responsible for the strategic direction of technology infrastructure & architecture. Managed global team responsible for engineering, infrastructure, projects, & strategy.
  Organized steering committee and led strategic direction of one of the largest grid solutions on Wall Street.
  Awarded Best CTO of the Year (2007) by American Financial Technology Awards

• Vice President - Global Credit & Emerging Markets Infrastructure / Architecture

  JP Morgan Chase

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 6 months)

  Responsible for technology infrastructure delivered to the Global Credit & Emerging Markets businesses.
  Responsible for Global Infrastructure Architecture / New technologies
  Building utility computing / managed grid infrastructure for Credit & Emerging Markets businesses
  Built Wall Street's first end-to-end Virtual Infrastructure Service Grid (Cloud Computing) - single grid platform for compute, database & application.
  Implementation of the largest global Murex installation

• VP - Rgnl Americas Infrastructure Manager, Credit, Fixed Income, Emerging Markets, Futures & Options

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

  March 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 3 months)

  Accountable for infrastructure strategic planning, demand management, project delivery, and day-to-day operations for the business and application teams. Responsible for budgeting, projects & programs, business continuity, and information risk/compliance.

• Vice President - Global Credit Infrastructure Manager

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

  March 2002 — March 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for overall infrastructure delivery for Global Credit Derivatives and Global Credit Risk Management

• Vice President - Asia Technology Infrastructure Manager

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — March 2002 (2 years )

  Responsible for technology infrastructure delivered to the Investment Bank businesses in Asia.

• Vice President - Equities Asia Technology Infrastructure Manager

  JPMorgan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  Responsible for technology infrastructure delivered to the Equities businesses in Asia.

Additional Information

Shawn Findlan’s Honors:

1) American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) 2007 - Best CTO of the Year
2) 2006 Smithsonian-ComputerWorld Honors Laureate, Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
3) American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) 2005 - Best Technology Initiative of the Year
4) Networkworld, February 2006 - Credit to the New Data Center
5) Waters Magazine Cover Story, November 2005 - JPMorgan's Virtual Reality
6) Bank Technology News Cover Story, December 2005 - Thinking Inside the Box
7) Dealing with Technology Cover Story, September 2005 - JPMorgan Goes Virtual