Leadership team
We have decades of broad and diverse expertise across the capital-markets industry.
Risk Focus leaders come from diverse professional backgrounds, bringing a wide range of skills and expertise with them. Through seamless collaboration, we deliver outcomes that advance your business objectives in powerful ways.

Vassil Avramov
FOUNDER AND CEO
Vassil steers the business and technology direction for Risk Focus. Under his supervision, Risk Focus teams have built trade, risk management, and connectivity platforms for some of the largest banks, hedge funds, and clearinghouses. He co-founded Risk Focus in 2004.

Vadim Gelman
HEAD OF DELIVERY
Vadim serves as a solution architect and overall delivery lead. He is best at implementing cutting-edge distributed systems and interfacing with the quant and machine learning teams. He co-founded Risk Focus in 2004.

Srikant Ganesan
HEAD OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
Srikant guides the delivery of global technology programs. He draws on his extensive capital-markets knowledge to provide thought leadership to buy- and sell-side clients on their strategic technology initiatives.

Peter Meulbroek
HEAD OF DEVOPS & CLOUD
Peter sets the cloud computing strategy for Risk Focus. With a strong enterprise delivery background, he brings more than 25 years as a technologist and technology leader. He focuses the practice on client transformation, DevOps adoption, and AWS/cloud to accelerate delivery and decrease risk.

Lloyd Altman
HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Lloyd helps clients realize the best delivery approaches to advance their business objectives. He brings more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience in capital markets.

Cary Dym
HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, DEVOPS
Cary is responsible for seeing that the needs of clients guide Risk Focus day to day. He leads sales and go-to-market strategy as well as manages client and strategic partner relations, including AWS.

Joel Scotkin
HEAD OF STRATEGY
Joel helps drive the direction of Risk Focus and its customer offerings. During his career, he has been instrumental in hundreds of business-critical projects with clients from nearly every major capital-markets company.

Tara Ronel
HEAD OF PITTSBURGH DELIVERY CENTER
Tara helps drive Risk Focus expansion across new regions, verticals, and customers. A delivery-oriented software leader, she has focused on supporting business strategies at start-ups and large enterprises for 20 years.

Steve Nieker
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Steve ensures operational processes run efficiently while also promoting a human-first culture that brings out the best in Risk Focus talent. He is a veteran tech entrepreneur with almost 30 years of experience growing consulting and product companies.