Mark Eaton

Mark brings 24 years of industry experience designing, developing and implementing mission-critical systems for the financial services and enterprise software markets to NorthStar. Mark's expertise in financial services ranges from program and brokerage trading systems to financial advice applications. Prior to joining NorthStar, Mark led a team at mPower that designed a sophisticated B2B architecture providing data integration and single sign-on capability between partner web sites and the mPower financial advice application, streamlining the delivery of services to their clients. At Iris Financial Engineering and Systems, Mark led a team that developed a program trading system that handled in excess of £1,000,000,000 in daily trade volume, allowing a dramatic increase in profitability for the program trading unit of a major investment bank. At Advent Software, Mark led a team that designed and developed a brokerage trade order management supporting multicurrency, fixed income, and mutual fund instruments as well as enhanced equity trading functionality such as omnibus trading. The product tripled its market share within one quarter of its release, with a commensurate increase in corporate revenue. Mark holds three degrees in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, including a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics.