Fontana exists because operations and technology teams still absorb too much complexity between systems: spreadsheets, files, exceptions, approvals, reconciliations, and evidence that has to be reconstructed after the fact.
Our co-founders combine commercial leadership, AI product experience, and engineering depth across financial services, investment operations, reconciliation, enterprise software, and market infrastructure.
Commercial and Sales
Executive with commercial and operational leadership across financial services, investment operations, and governed enterprise software. Builds and scales high-performing commercial teams for regulated buyers.
Product
AI/ML and investment operations product leader. Former Global Head of AI/ML Product at SmartStream, leading AI-driven reconciliation and exception management capabilities, before running Investment Operations product management at SimCorp.
Technology and AI
Multi-disciplinary, AI-focused technologist with 20+ years in Financial Technology and executive leadership. Ex-director at Citadel LLC; serial founder, and specialist in enterprise platform architecture, AI systems, and large-scale trading technology for global financial institutions.
Fontana&s team brings experience across investment operations, market infrastructure, reconciliation, buy-side platforms, enterprise financial systems, and regulated financial-services buyers.
“Fontana” is the Italian word for fountain or spring, drawn from the Latin fons, meaning source or well. A fountain represents constant movement - water that flows, renews, and gives life. That’s how we see data: not static, but flowing, alive, and full of potential when harnessed in the right way.
