Who We Are

Trusted Technology, Reliable Partners

About Us

BondXN is a financial technology company founded in 2018 with the vision of bringing efficiency to securitized products trading through technology, data and thoughtfully designed products. Our team has over 100 combined years of capital markets experience.

Our Team

Neil Arora

President

Experience

Founder of two successful FinTech ventures with product- WinFITS & FinBlaze deployed at multiple firms

30+ years of software development experience, with a focus on solutions for the MBS, Rates and Derivatives markets

Adil Nathani

Board Member

Experience

Co-Founder of Pinehouse Capital and Managing Principal at QMS Capital. Former CRO of LATAM/Structured Credit at Citibank

Board member at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and multiple FinTech startups

Bill Gafner

CEO - BondXN Technologies

Experience

Former Product Manager at ION Trading. Began his career at Merril Lynch as a developer before spending time on the trading desk

Used his unique experience of over 25 years in FI to drive development of multiple successful products

Nic Tandon

Chief Product Officer

Experience

Former CLO Portfolio Manager & FI derivatives trader at BlackRock

5+ years of FI trading expertise with a focus on electronic trading, trade data analytics & market structure

Courtney Van Fechtmann

VP Relationship Management & Sales

Experience

Former head of Tradeweb’s Client Strategy team and MBS platform. Leveraged long-standing relationships to create bespoke workflows focused on addressing efficiency gaps.

15+ years cultivating the electronification of markets in TBAs and Specified Pools.

Jeff Johnson

Board Member

Experience

Former Managing Director & Head of Securitized Product Sales at JP Morgan. Served as a member of the Securitized Products Group Management Team and America's Sales and Marketing Management Team

35+ years of FI expertise in various sales & trading roles

Andrea Ceccolini

Board Member

Experience

Co-founder and former CTO of ION, where he designed and developed ION's popular platform for electronic trading

Currently advising start-ups and collaborating with the Multilanguage Cognition Lab at UCL

Danny Da Costa

VP Software Development

Experience

Core developer of BondXN and FinBlaze

10+ years of FI software development and engineering expertise with a focus on MBS and Rates. With a background in gaming technology, Danny is focused on performance and software usability

Arjun Arora

Chief Compliance Officer

Experience

Former Investment Banker at Perella Weinberg Partners and Tyton Partners

10+ years of M&A experience with a focus on electronic trading, capital markets, and data & analytics

Rene Mendez

Board Member

Experience

Partner at Pinehouse Capital. Former Co-Head of SPG at Natixis, Former Head of Whole Loan Trading & Securitization at IXIS and Former Head of CMBS Trading at Paine Webber & Kidder Peabody

30+ years of FI and Securitized market expertise

Jonathan Allen

CEO

Experience

Former Managing Director & Head of Mortgages eTrading at Bank of America. Senior leader for FICC etrading at Bank of America where he designed the 1st MBS TBA algorithm

17+ years of FI expertise in various trading roles

Andrew Gilchrist

VP Software Architecture

Experience

Former Product Developer at ION Trading and previously at Aurora Software

25+ years of FinTech expertise, focused on parallel computing and low latency designs for eTrading in the fixed-income space

Allison Hall

VP Relationship Management & Sales

Experience

Former institutional salesperson at Tradeweb & MBS/ABS eTrading strategist at Bank of America. Worked on the development of the first single dealer platform for ABS

5+ years of expertise in Securitized Products & Credit