About Eventus
Making markets safer
Our difference
Where deep industry knowledge & high performance computing converge
Origin story
Eventus is a leading global provider of state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense.
Eventus was founded by capital markets experts and compliance practitioners who discovered that the industry lacked a trade surveillance solution fit for the frequency, volume, and breadth of products many modern trading firms were handling. Launched in 2015, Validus, our trade surveillance platform, took shape over time based on our experiences and many conversations with early clients. This client feedback and collaboration remains the most important driving force of our innovation today.
Eventus is an award-winning, recognized global leader in trade surveillance, algo monitoring, risk controls, and transaction monitoring solutions for a diverse range of firms complying with regulations in jurisdictions at the highest standards. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customize and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income, and digital asset markets.
Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume, and real-time environments of Eventus’ rapidly growing client base, including banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, exchanges, market venues, energy and commodity trading firms, and crypto platforms. Clients rely on the platform, coupled with the firm’s responsive support and product development, to overcome their most pressing trade surveillance regulatory challenges.
Our leadership team
Board of Directors
Krishna Srinivasan is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm focused on backing world class category leaders headquartered in Texas, and has been investing in early stage Texas based companies and entrepreneurs since 2000. Prior to founding LiveOak in 2011, Krishna was a Partner at Austin Ventures and previously was with Motorola where he wrote large scale optimization software for supply chain planning.
Kim Taylor retired from her role as President, Clearing and Post-Trade Services at CME Group in December 2017. She joined CME as an analyst in 1989 and rose to handle risk management in the Clearing House in 1998 and to become President of the CME Clearing House in 2004. She served as CME’s President, Global Operations, Technology & Risk from September 2014 to December 2016.
Travis Schwab is the CEO of Eventus Systems.
Matthew Alfieri joined Centana in 2017 and is a Partner on the investment team, and he currently serves on the Board of Eventus Systems and serves as a Board Observer at Beacon, Plooto, Sayari Labs, SpyCloud and Zesty.ai. Matthew was named one of GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors (2022) and was named one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street (2019). Prior to Centana, Matthew spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a Vice President with the Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) team working in London and New York. Matthew gained experience investing in financial technology and enterprise software companies. He led eight investments and served on the Boards of six of the companies; his investments included Barefoot Networks (acquired by Intel), Vapor IO and Unbound Tech (acquired by Coinbase). Prior to PSI, Matthew was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. He received a BA in Business Administration in the Financial Analyst Honors Program from the University at Albany.
Richard Gorelick is a seed investor in Eventus Systems. Until February 2020, Richard was Head of Market Structure at DRW, a principal trading firm. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of RGM Advisors, an automated trading firm that was acquired by DRW in 2017. Prior to RGM, Richard was Chief Strategy Officer of Deja.com and an attorney in Coudert Brothers’ New York office. Richard is the Chairman of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee.
Fred Hatfield is the founder of Hatfield Advisory Services and a senior advisor at Patomak Global Partners. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for ICE Futures U.S. He served as a CFTC Commissioner from 2004 – 2006 and was Chief of Staff to Senator John Breaux (D-LA) from 1995 – 2004 and U.S. House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-CA) from 1980-1989.
Robb joined Jump in 2021 to build mechanisms that accelerate growth and create scale within Jump’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining Jump, Robb was on the Corporate Business Development team at Amazon, supporting various business teams structure and negotiating complex, first-of-their-kind strategic partnerships. Robb’s early career spanned various operating roles, focused on business development, strategy, and product.
Responsive
We are practitioners – capital markets and regulatory affairs experts, and former compliance officers – and that background informs how we build Validus and work closely with clients.
At-scale
We started Eventus because, as compliance officers, we could not find anything to handle the frequency, volume, and breadth of trading needed at high-volume trading firms. Our technology scales with our clients for efficient application that allows for growth.
Innovative
We continually refine and enhance our solutions, invest heavily in R&D, and seek efficient ways to address complex regulatory issues to shape the future-state of trade surveillance.
Expertise in-house
We are founded by a chief compliance officer and a team of seasoned post-trade operations technologists, and we hire the top regulatory, surveillance, and engineering talent. Our collaborative approach with clients and high-touch services foster a true partnership that goes beyond technology implementation.
Security & trust
Eventus upholds strict data, privacy, and security procedures to safeguard our clients. We adhere to stringent standards and undergo independent validation of compliance, recently achieving SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, assessed by third-party, independent auditors.
- SOC 2 Type 2 certification
- Best-in-class technology providers
- Authoritative market data
“Our clients are our strongest advocates, and feedback has been extremely validating. Our origin as practitioners has been vital to our success because that experience gives us empathy about what our clients face.”
Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus