Our Mission

KopenTech’s mission is
delivering technologies
that advance the
simplicity of structured
products investing.

Operators. Engineers.
Innovators.

Software engineers and
investment professionals
working together to create a
more resilient market.

We design trading solutions
that simplify the work of
our
clients causing positive ripple
effects in the industry.

Client
Solutions Team

Jill Scalisi

Jill Scalisi

Chief Engagement Officer

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Jill Scalisi is responsible for overseeing KopenTech’s platform growth and sales efforts. Jill brings over 20 years of experience implementing new financial products. At Nomura Securities, she built and managed credit sales businesses in New York and Boston. Before that, Jill was Co-Head of Credit Derivatives and CDO Product Management at Lehman Brothers. Jill began her career at Chase structuring the first synthetic CLOs and risk transfer products. In addition, Jill Scalisi has an extensive entrepreneurial background. She was the CEO and founder of Scalisi Cosmetics, where she developed two nationally distributed skincare lines. She holds a BA from Georgetown University.

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Anthony Schexnayder

Anthony Schexnayder

Head of Business Development

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Anthony serves as KopenTech's Head of Business Development and works side-by-side with investors and managers as they use KopenTech’s platform to simplify structured products. Before joining KopenTech, Anthony spent several years focusing on finTech solutions for private debt lenders and CLO managers/investors. Prior to his work in finTech, Anthony had senior roles at Guggenheim Partners, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Anthony earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Mechanical Engineering degree from UCLA, where he was also a 4-year letterman in football.

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Danielle Bisciotti

Robert Shrekgast

Director of Distribution

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Rob is KopenTech’s Director of Distribution, responsible for growing the user base of the company’s products. He began his banking career in Citibank’s loan syndications business before transitioning to BNP Paribas as a marketer and structurer of credit products covering hedge funds, banks and insurance companies. Rob was part of a team that successfully launched Razorbill Advisors, a credit arbitrage hedge fund. After the sale of Razorbill, he joined Sun Life’s ‘Ryan Labs Asset Management’ in a business development capacity raising capital for their different funds. Rob received his undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

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Coleen Mager

Coleen Mager

Business Development

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Coleen is in Business Development at KopenTech, specializing in sales and partnerships across the suite of KopenTech products. Prior to Kopentech, Coleen worked for over two decades in sales and research in Leveraged Finance and Structured Products for Natixis, Mizuho, Lazard and Goldman Sachs. She grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University for undergraduate degree and Columbia Business School for her MBA.

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Anna Gryb

Anna Gryb

Head of Product

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Anna Gryb, Head of Product. Anna manages projects across KopenTech’s divisions, working closely with engineering and business development teams. Prior to joining KopenTech, Anna consulted for senior executives and Chief Technology Officers as a Software Engineer in the finance, healthcare, and leisure & hospitality sectors. Originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, Mrs. Gryb holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Kharkiv National University, both in Applied Mathematics.

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Danielle Bisciotti

Danielle Bisciotti

Director of Finance

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Danielle Bisciotti joins KopenTech as Director of Finance, overseeing finance functions. For 10 years prior to joining KopenTech, Danielle was a Senior Accounting Analyst at Bloomberg LP responsible for broker-dealer reporting across various jurisdictions. She was previously Assistant Controller at Citi Alternative Investments serving multi-strategy hedge funds, private equity and event-driven funds. Prior Danielle was a Senior Associate at the RSM US LLP audit practice.

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Kamilla Igibayeva

Kamilla Igibayeva

Quantitative Associate

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Kamilla serves as a Quantitative Associate, working on research and development of analytical graphs for the KopenTech platform, and data analysis of primary and secondary CLO markets. Prior to joining KopenTech, Kamilla conducted research on banks' performance, risk management and corporate structure as a part of her job at Credit Spectrum. Originally from Almaty, Kazakhstan, Kamilla holds degrees of Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Nazarbayev University.

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Our story: history of product development

KopenTech founded

KopenTech Capital Markets
(KCM),
100% wholly-owned
subsidiary of Kopentech LLC,
becomes a member of FINRA
and 1stCLOs ATS platform

First AMR CLO refinancing
auction

Online KTX trading platform
is launched

Dashboard, displaying market
health metrics, trade volume
statistics and portfolio
tracking,
is launched

LiveBidding, an innovative
2-stage trading protocol with
live prices, is launched

Issuance Monitor, a centralized
portal for primary activity
(new issues, refis and resets),
is launched

Dealer Inventory, a centralized
portal to aggregate bond
inventory across secondary
trading desks, is launched

DirectBidding, client to client
CLO trading protocol, is
launched

Recognitions

Global Capital

US Securitization Awards 2022 – Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year

Kopentech’s AMR refinancing of Catamaran CLO 2014-1 LTD is awarded Innovative Securitization Deal of the Year during the GlobalCapital US Securitization Awards. This is first-ever $467MM refinancing and securitization via an online auction. It is also the largest trade in secondary CLO trading history.

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2021 Best New Front - Office Fintech Solution

This award is designed to honor the best new innovative fintech solution for the US institutional trading ecosystem. Success in this category is determined by leading innovation by the provider, attention to clients’ needs and future requirements from a trading perspective, thorough knowledge of the sector and existing products, and driving tangible results through product optimization.

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2021 HFM US Technology Awards – Best Trading & Execution Technology

This award showcases KopenTech’s innovative trading and execution technology which improves participation, transparency and liquidity for the structured products market.

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2020 Alt Credit US Services Awards – Best Technology Innovation

This award celebrates the best technological innovation for credit fund managers. KopenTech’s BWIC ATS technology allows fund managers to electronically trade their CLO securities, creating the first-ever marketplace for structured products.

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2020 Alt Credit US Services Awards

This award celebrates the technology solution for aiding the trading of credit securities.

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2020 Fund Intelligence Tech and WSL Technology Awards

Success in this category is determined by customer growth, new & efficient technology launches, as well as infrastructure initiatives within the industry that can be implemented with ease.

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