Our global leadership team combines a breadth of management experience in financial services and technology. They are committed to providing our financial clients with reliable, powerful technology and services while ensuring that IPC is well positioned to anticipate and meet customers’ demands.

Bob Santella, CEO, gives us his perspective of the importance of ESG for IPC as an organization.

Chief Executive Officer, Robert (Bob) Santella, has vast experience in financial and capital markets, spanning asset classes, ecosystem participants and front, middle, back-office trade life-cycle workflows and systems.

Previously, Bob held the position of President of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) Global Trading Group. As President of this group, he had responsibility for all trading, network, execution, energy and market data businesses. Bob joined FIS at the end of 2015 when FIS acquired SunGard. During his tenure with SunGard, Mr. Santella served as president of various groups focused on trading and brokerage solutions. Bob joined SunGard in 2010 through its acquisition of Fox River Execution Technology, where he was Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to Fox River, Bob held senior management positions at two alternative asset firms, SAM Investments and RAS Investments. He spent eight years as a senior manager at Price Waterhouse, where he held a senior leadership role within the Personal Financial Planning unit.

Bob holds a BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He also holds the CPA designation and the FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 99 securities registrations.

President & Chief Commercial Officer, Dave Brown, leads Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Support while responsible for Growth initiatives including M&A and partnership.

Over the course of a long and illustrious career with IPC, David has contributed substantially to the company’s growth and has served in a multitude of executive management roles including Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of IPC’s Financial Markets Network where he managed all aspects of the Global Network Services business, including worldwide sales and marketing, engineering, product management, network operations and customer support. David has also managed IPC’s global trading communications solutions operations, corporate information technology and business operations. He has led multiple successful network acquisition and integration projects.

Before joining IPC in 2003, he held management positions at IXNet and Global Crossing, and also worked for Orange PCS and Rolls Royce PLC. A native of the U.K., David earned a B.A. from Sheffield Hallam University and resides in New York.

Chief Financial Officer, Chris Nagy leads the Controllership, Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Supply Chain and Treasury team working closely with our shareholders, Board of Directors, and lenders.

With over 25 years of executive leadership experience in the financial industry, including many corporate transactions, Chris is well-suited for driving organic and inorganic growth initiatives. In this time, he assisted in the IPO of Equant, was on the founding team of Radianz which sold to BT, contributed to the re-listing and sale of NYFIX to NYSE/BNY Convergex, helped combine Wombat/SRLabs/OptionsCity/Object Trading to create Vela, played a key role at BlackRock within Aladdin and Trading & Liquidity Strategies, and merged FocusVision/Confirmit to launch Forsta, recently acquired by Press Ganey.

He has experience as both CFO and CEO providing a backdrop to his passion for driving value through strategic and commercial planning and analytics. Chris holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Emory University.

EVP, Strategy & Corporate Development, Adam Bozek, leads the Risk Management & Legal teams ensuring IPC has a unified approach and understanding of key long-term objectives and aligning day-to-day activities with enhancing long-term value.

Before joining IPC, Adam was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Rockwood Service Corporation, a privately held technology and services company. In his more than 25 years of legal, business, operations and management experience, he has also held senior executive positions with GE Capital, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Paul, Hasting, Janofsky & Walker.

Adam earned his law degree at New York University School of Law and holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University. He enjoys playing golf and basketball and cheering for the Boston Red Sox.

Chief Technology Officer, Tim Carmody leads our organization’s product strategy, technology innovation and development of our product roadmap to achieve growth and success in the industry, driving his teams towards excellence.

In addition, his teams ensure that services are designed to be operationally ready as well as being responsible for the delivery of all Unigy deployment models. Tim has 20 years of experience at IPC and 30 years of experience overall in technology for the Financial Services industry with a focus on Extranet, low latency and integrated voice communication solutions. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President of Product and Engineering for IPC’s Financial Markets Network where he managed all product strategy and technology specific to IPC’s private network, Connexus Cloud.

Before re-joining IPC in 2011,  Tim spent 10 years overseeing North America Engineering at BT Radianz as well as a year at an optical startup. Born and raised in the New York area, Tim earned a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from Boston University.

SVP, Global Network Services, Jeff Britell, leads all operational aspects with regards to design, delivery, customer deployments, migrations and maintain the equipment and routes for our underlying network infrastructure.

His broad areas of expertise include global technology, M&A and company integration, operational management, procurement, purchasing, contract negotiation, data analytics, and executive management. He is a global network strategist, implementation and procurement specialist, with extensive experience managing Americas, European and Asian interests.

Throughout his executive career, Jeffrey has held leadership positions with companies in NY and London including GAINS International, Prudential Securities, Inc., and Technolia Management, LLC. His global responsibilities have included commercial and large deal management, network planning and design, implementation, and procurement/supplier management.

Since 2003, Jeffrey has worked for IPC in a variety of increasingly senior and executive roles.  In 2019, Jeffery was promoted to the head of global network services division making him responsible for a entire Network line of business. In 2022, he was elevated to Senior Vice President/Head of Networks, Global Network Services.

Jeffrey holds a BS in Biology – Concentration in Ecology and Molecular Biology from The University of Dayton and graduated in 1993.

Chief People Officer, Meeghan leads recruitment, D&I, organizational design, corporate communications, performance & talent management, enhancing the employee experience at IPC.

Meeghan acts as a trusted advisor to the Executive team and global organization; attaining change management initiatives, organizational structure transformation and driving talent development initiatives. She has been pivotal in launching and managing the Diversity and Inclusion program since 2018, driving culture change.

Meeghan has over 15 years of experience transforming Human Resources programs, with a focus on every organization’s most important asset; their people. Using guiding principles of HR tools for business solutions; she utilizes operational problem solving, strategic business alignment and leadership development to partner with the organization and instill passion for the entire employee life cycle.

Previous to IPC, Meeghan worked in Human Resources at technology and financial institutions. She focused on mergers and acquisitions, as well as HRIS transformation at Cognizant Technology Solutions and concentrated on talent acquisition and development at UBS.

Meeghan holds an MBA degree with a Human Resources concentration from Charleston Southern University and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Management from Siena College.

Head of Operations, Matt Stocker leads our centralized operations team responsible for serving customers throughout all cycles of deployment and on-going support, ensuring operational efficiency.

Chief Transformation Officer, Alex Baren, coordinates all major growth and other transformation initiatives with the Leadership team and Board of Directors, across all levels of the organization.

Alex has over twelve years of leadership experience in consulting and financial sector companies with a heavy emphasis on value creation.

Most recently, Alex was Chief Transformation Officer at Finance of America, where he led a long-term plan to drive growth and operational excellence. Prior to this role, Alex served in senior operating and consulting roles at various firms owned by Blackstone, Nationstar Mortgage and PricewaterhouseCoopers. During his tenure at each of these companies, Alex assumed increasing responsibilities and has a demonstrated track record of achievement.

Alex holds an B.B.A. in Finance from The George Washington University, as well as a Transformative Financial Services & Strategies Certification from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.