Satyen Patel

Chairman

Satyen has previously held senior management positions in several multinational companies and has worked all over the globe. He started his career with Grand Metropolitan PLC/The Pillsbury Company, based out of Minneapolis, MN, and served as their Director of Strategic Development. He continued his business development work in the food and beverage industry when he joined Pepsi-Cola International in New York, where he worked as Director, International Business Development. After his work with Pepsi-Cola, he relocated to Singapore to act as Managing Director for Nike Southeast Asia. He continued his career in Singapore as non-executive director at 3i PLC Asia-Pacific before setting off to found Cambridge Solutions Ltd. while being based in London.

In addition to his years of experience in senior management for business development, Satyen has held a variety of board positions in different global companies. He is currently a member of the board for Neilsoft Ltd, Credo ESG and of DharmaLife. Formerly, he was a board member for ICON Aircraft Inc. He’s also founded companies: He was the co-founder and former Executive Chairman for Prescient Inc., and he was the co-founder and former Executive Vice Chairman for Cambridge Solutions Ltd. a publicly listed IT and BPO company in financial services.

Robert E. Mallernee

CEO

With 30+ years of experience in ultra-high net worth wealth management, Rob co-founded and led Eton Advisors, the highly successful multi-family office that initially developed the AtlasFive platform. Rob’s passion for systems development and client service led him to establish Eton Solutions as a technology and services provider to the ultra-high net worth office.

Prior to Eton, Rob held key roles at the UBS Multi-Family Office Group, the Private Asset Management Group at NC Trust Company, Arthur Andersen, and Price Waterhouse.

Kevin J. P. Hayes

President

Kevin Hayes joined Eton Solutions in 2020.  Kevin’s day-to-day responsibilities are wide-ranging, including client interactions, sales, implementation, and services.  As President of Eton Solutions, Kevin also serves as a visionary leader for the company and ensures Eton Solutions’ mission drives every decision the company makes.

With significant asset management experience in both the US and the UK, Kevin brings a global perspective to Eton Solutions, along with more than 30 years of experience in international financial services.

Kevin’s decade-plus years of experience with listing public companies on global stock exchanges positions Eton Solutions to become a world-renowned company. Most recently, Kevin was CFO of River and Mercantile Group PLC and facilitated their efforts for a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2014. While leading this charge, he was responsible for Finance, Legal, Compliance and Operations of the Pension Advisory and Asset Management businesses.

His previous experience prepared him well for that task, as he was instrumental in the spin-off and listing of MF Global on the New York Stock Exchange during his role as Finance Director and Board member of the FTSE 100 listed asset manager Man Group PLC (2007-2012). During his time with Man Group PLC, he was responsible for the finance and treasury functions in the UK, Switzerland, the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Kevin’s leadership roles in international financial services and his experience listing public companies make him an invaluable asset to the Eton Solutions executive team.

Prior to these roles, Kevin spent over a decade with Lehman Brothers. He started there in 1995 as Managing Director, CFO Capital Markets, and covered the Fixed Income, Equities, and Private Client businesses before moving to the UK in 2001 to become Lehman’s International CFO (covering Europe and Asia). He further expanded his international management experience when he became Head of Productivity and Process Improvement in 2005. In this position, he co-led the Lehman India offshoring operations.

Kevin started his career at Ernst & Young in New Zealand, where he started in Audit. While there, he was seconded to the NZ Securities Commission to assist in the rewrite of the Companies Act due to his accounting and legal experience. He moved to EY New York in 1989 where he became a Partner in the Financial Services practice covering publicly listed investment banks and foreign registered banks operating in the US.

Kevin is a graduate of Victoria University, New Zealand, with bachelor’s degrees in both Law and Accounting. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Kevin is also a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Allen Wilson

SVP Sales and Marketing

Allen joined Eton Solutions with 35+ years of experience in the tax field, including senior leadership roles at Andersen and Grant Thornton. One of his roles at Grant Thornton was the National Managing Partner of the Private Wealth Services practice which served the ultra-high net worth individual and family office market.

After his retirement from Grant Thornton, Allen was the Vice-President of Strategy and Innovation for the Kenan Flagler Business School (UNC) and currently serves on several local boards in various leadership positions. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the Wake Forest School of Law.

Jeegar Patel

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Jeegar Patel leads the product and technology development group at Eton Solutions.

He is a thought leader with a commercial product mindset and has an exceptional track record of shaping and executing technology transformation and business process reengineering strategies. He is responsible for the design of integrated platform architecture and building a comprehensive end-to-end solution that fully integrates all operational aspects of the wealth management life cycle, empoweringFamily Offices to run more efficiently and deliver a transformative experience to their clients.

Jeegar joined us from BlackRock, after serving for 18 years as Managing Director responsible for the accelerated technology vision and commercial product launch strategy for Aladdin’s Accounting, Performance, Provider Oversight and Reporting capabilities – Key engine of business growth, for harvesting incremental revenue from existing clients and distinguishing value proposition for prospects. He has championed industry leading Post Trade operational scale and efficiency, with an accomplished history of building scale engineered, resilient, and open architecture platform solutions for clients across Asset Management, Insurance, Pensions and Asset Servicer landscape.

Jeegar holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Automation Control and Robotics from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Muralidhran Nadarajah

Chief Information Officer

For 30+ years, Murali has built and managed teams that deliver best-in-class software projects and products at Fortune 300 companies and startups worldwide. He also co-founded Digite, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that develops and sells software tools that streamline engineering collaboration.

Prior to Eton, Murali held key consulting and engineering roles with DXC Technology, Xchanging, Banctec, and HCL customers including ETrade, American Express, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

Nimish Soni

Chief Operating Officer

Nimish comes to Eton with 25+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and in senior executive roles at listed companies across the world.  Nimish leverages his deep expertise in large implementations and operations by developing and building Eton Solutions’ onboarding and client operations teams.  He has put in place best-in-class methodologies and practices to allow Eton Solutions to quickly scale the operations.

Prior to joining Eton, Nimish started his career at Cap Gemini and later founded several companies including ProcessMind and FirstLife.  ProcessMind became a 5000 employee company with employees and customers around the world.  After several M&As, ProcessMind became a part of Xchanging (listed in London) where Nimish served as part of the global executive management board.

Deb Bawcom

Chief Program Manager