AcadiaSoft Inc. just announced that its longtime Board Chairman Howard Edelstein will step down later this year.
AcadiaSoft has already started a search for a replacement. Howard Edelstein has been in the company since its very beginning, either as the independent director or Board Chairman.
AcadiaSoft CEO Chris Walsh commented on the news:
Howard Edelstein was a prime mover behind AcadiaSoft’s transition from a fintech startup funded by a handful of investors to an industry collaborative comprised of 17 global banks and infrastructures, including CME, LSE, DTCC, and Euroclear,” said AcadiaSoft CEO Chris Walsh. “AcadiaSoft is now an industry-governed and majority-owned private RegTech company focusing on compliance with Uncleared Margin Rules and other related sources of systemic industry risk, and I can’t thank Howard enough for his enormous contributions in establishing this company over the past decade.
Howard Edelstein said:
Back in 2009 when I first got involved, AcadiaSoft was a promising idea being incubated by its founders, Craig Welch and Dan Moyse, whom I had worked with at Thomson and Omgeo developing similar innovations in risk mitigation. Today AcadiaSoft is a mature, well-funded company that has emerged as the industry standard for managing risk related to the posting of margin and collateral.
All the pieces we envisioned in the early part of this decade are now in place: secure, resilient technology, a highly-effective management team and a solid Board, Committee and Advisory Group structure representing all facets of the industry, both buyside and sell side.
So I believe that after almost a decade of working to build AcadiaSoft to the industry standard for margin and collateral risk mitigation, as well as leading and securing the company’s latest investment round, it is a good time to announce that I plan to step down. There are many other challenges ahead where combining innovation in Fintech and Cybertech with support and engagement from the banks and other financial instructions will benefit the entire industry. I’d like to be able to devote the coming decade to my other Board work and my personal investments in Fintech companies including BioCatch where I am now CEO and Chairman.
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