Our Board

Mr. Tabacchi joined Citicorp/Citibank in 1980. Over a period of 20 years he worked in various customer interface and business head positions within the Investment, Corporate, and Consumer Banking Divisions. In 1987 Mr. Tabacchi became the regional business manager for the Northeast Division of Citicorp Mortgage, Inc. In 1989 he was a Division Financial controller in Citicorp's North American Investment Bank. During 1990 Mr. Tabacchi was asked to manage the day-to-day operations of Citibank's Municipal Trust business. He revamped the product lines and packaged the business for sale, which was completed in 1992. He then joined the Finance Desk and was named Treasurer of Citicorp Securities, Inc. in 1995.

As Treasurer, Mr. Tabacchi initiated an off balance sheet engineering effort to securitize Citicorp's fixed income business. In 1998, he was given additional responsibilities as co-head of the Primary Dealer desk and was accountable for over $50 billion in Securities Assets, Mortgage Loans, Reserves, and Placements. In addition, Mr. Tabacchi was responsible for expanding the Structured Finance Group, which had become the cornerstone of Citibank's fixed income business plans prior to the Citicorp-Travelers merger.

In 2000, Mr. Tabacchi co-founded South Street Securities, Matrix Applications and its predecessor firms. South Street Securities is a New York based broker dealer specializing in securities finance and repurchase agreements for high quality securities. In May 2021, he was elected to the DTCC Board of Directors for a five year term.

Mr. Tabacchi's FINRA certifications include Series 7, 63, 27 and 24.

Mr. Berlage is head of portfolio management of Allianz Risk Transfer, Inc.'s ("ART") Alternative Asset business. He has joined ART in 2008 as a principal. Before joining ART, Mr. Berlage worked at UBS for 14 years where he was head of asset backed origination. He focused on esoteric and insurance securitizations and successfully closed a number of innovative, award-winning, first-in-class securitization transactions in areas such as healthcare, media, transportation, and infrastructure. Over his career, Mr. Berlage was involved in all facets of the structured finance business.

Prior to moving to New York in 1998, Mr. Berlage worked for UBS in Zurich, Switzerland, for the head of corporate and investment banking and Group Executive Board Member, on strategic projects culminating in the merger of UBS and SBC.

Mr. Berlage has a graduate degree in law and economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany and an MBA from Zurich University, Switzerland.

Art is non-executive Chairman of LTX, a Broadridge company, and is a senior advisor to the executive team at Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., a leading global financial technology firm. As part of his role with Broadridge, he also represents the firm on the LiquidX Board of Directors.

Additionally, Art is an active member of the Board of Directors for South Street Securities, a FINRA member broker-dealer, and for NEST Global Solutions Inc. He is also an advisor to FinOptSys Inc. and Next Level Derivatives. From 2002 to 2019, Art was Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Advisors for Promontory Interfinancial Network, the leading provider of FDIC-insured deposit placement services in the USA.

Art retired from Bank of New York Mellon in December 2014 as a member of the Executive Committee and Operating Committee of the Company and as Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of Global Markets, leading the company’s foreign exchange, capital markets and derivatives trading businesses worldwide. Prior to this role, Art served as Chief Executive Officer of Alternative, Broker-Dealer and the Treasury Clearance Groups, where he played a major role in the 2001 911 recovery and the 2008 credit crisis. Before joining The Bank of New York in 1998, Art was a principal of Morgan Stanley Asset Management (MSAM). Prior to this, he was a vice president at The Chase Manhattan Bank’s Global Investor Services group.

During his 36-year career in International Banking and Capital Markets, Art served on a number of boards and committees dedicated to delivering actionable solutions to issues facing the financial services industry. Among them: he assisted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in designing and implementing critical liquidity facilities to support the banking system, he was the lead director of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a director of the International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG), a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), the Tri-party Repurchase agreement Infrastructure Task Force formed by the Federal Reserve Payments System Risk (PSR) Committee, The Industry Working Group on Payments System Risk Policy Change, and The NewBank Working Group.

Art is Ex-Chairman and member of the Board of Overseers of the Rutgers University Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Rutgers Business School; where he is also a co-adjutant professor in the Executive MBA program. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Saint Pio Foundation.

Art holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers College at Rutgers University and an M.B.A from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lives in Rutherford New Jersey USA with his wife Terry and has two children, Matthew and Cara.

Founder and CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC

Mr. Diamond is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital, a merchant banking firm investing in and operating financial services business across developed and emerging markets. Mr. Diamond also co-founded Atlas Mara, a sub-Saharan Africa financial services firm, in partnership with the Mara Group. Atlas Mara completed its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in December 2013.

Mr. Diamond was Chief Executive of Barclays, having previously held the position of President of Barclays and Chief Executive of Barclays Capital. Mr. Diamond is a Member of The Council on Foreign Relations and is involved in several non-profit initiatives. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Colby College, a Trustee of The Mayor's Fund for London, President of the New York Chapter of Invest Africa and a Director of the Diamond Family Foundation.

Mr. Diamond holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.

Chairman of the Board, XL Capital Ltd.

Michael (Mike) served as Chairman of the Board of XL Capital Ltd since his appointment in April 1995. In addition to his role with XL Capital, he served on the Boards of Directors of Forest City Enterprises, Ohio; and Annuity & Life Re (Holdings), Ltd., Bermuda. Also, from July 1995 to year-end 2000, Mike was Co-Chairman of Inter-Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc., an investment banking firm. Mike began his finance career in 1961 with the Chase Manhattan Corporation and The Chase Manhattan Bank N.A.

In a career with Chase that spanned over 30 years, Mike held a number of progressive positions, culminating in his role as Chief Financial Officer and then as Chief Administrative Officer. He has also been active in a number of professional associations, including serving as Chairman of the Board of the Bank Administration Institute, Chairman of the American Bankers Association, Chief Financial Officers Division and a member of the Advisory Council to the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

In addition to his successful career in Commercial Banking, Mike also served with the US Marine Corps as a First Lieutenant from 1962 to 1963.Mike holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.B.A. with a major in Accounting from New York University.

Director of Apollo Investment Company

Before his retirement, Mr. Puleo was a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP where he focused on advising banking clients on bank regulatory issues, securitization and debt restructurings. Mr. Puleo became a partner of Milbank in 1978 and Co-Chair of the firm's Global Finance group in 1995 until retiring at the end of 2006.

Mr. Puleo served as a lecturer at Columbia University School of Law from 1997 to 2001. He graduated from Princeton with BSE in 1967 and from New York University School of Law with a JD in 1970.

Managing Partner of Pi Capital International LLC

Managing Partner of Pi Capital International LLC, a global advisory firm located in New York, NY. Pi Capital provides capital raising, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and general corporate advisory services to firms in the financial institutions, power generation, and industrial sectors around the globe. Securities are offered through an affiliate, Marco Polo Securities Inc. (member FINRA, SIPC).

Before founding Pi Capital, Steve was President and Head of Investment Banking at INTL FCStone Financial Inc. Prior, Steve was the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Provident Group, a boutique investment banking firm providing capital raising, M&A and other corporate finance advisory services to firms globally. Provident Group was acquired by INTL in 2010.

Prior to forming Provident in 1999, Steve was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers holding various senior positions at the firm including:

Steve began his career at Fannie Mae. Steve graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland (1982) and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1984).

Partner, Atlas Merchant Capital LLC

David Schamis is Founding Partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee at Atlas Merchant Capital. Previously, David worked at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC, most recently as a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee. David joined J.C. Flowers at its inception and has had significant experience investing in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Prior to J.C. Flowers, David worked in the financial institutions investment banking group at Salomon Smith Barney LLC.

David is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Panmure Gordon & Co., Credicom Consumer Finance Bank S.A. and Somerset Re Ltd. Mr. Schamis was previously Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fox-Pitt Kelton and Ascensus Retirement Services (formerly Crump Group, Inc.). He also served on the Board of Directors for Symetra Financial Corporation, Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. and MF Global Ltd. In 2007 and 2008, Investment Dealers’ Digest magazine named David to its '40 Under 40' list.

A native of Plainview, New York, David earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Yale University. He served as Co-Chairman of the Class of 1995’s Reunion Gift Committees in 2005, 2010 and 2015.

Ms. Pucci joined South Street Securities in January of 2001, and is responsible for managing the day-to-day business activities of South Street as well as serving as its chief portfolio strategist. In addition, she is responsible for validation of the broker-dealer's financial statements and regulatory reporting. Ms. Pucci was previously employed by Citicorp from 1994, and worked on both the Government Securities Cash Desk and Treasury Finance Desk.

While at Citibank, her duties included responsibility for US general collateral and the Canadian dollar books. Ms. Pucci also headed-up Citibank's non-dollar repo desks (Italian, German) in London. Ms. Pucci completed her MBA with St. John's University in Rome, Italy and is FINRA Registered Series 7, 63, 24, 27.

Mr. Snyder joined South Street in June of 2016 and is the portfolio manager for South Street Asset Management (SSAM). After joining South Street he started SSAM, and is currently focused on finding investment opportunities in Agency Mortgage Backed Securities. Mr. Snyder also manages the Mortgage Pipeline Hedging business for South Street Securities where the firm provides access to the capital markets for Mortgage Originators that need to hedge the interest rate exposure of their mortgage pipelines.

Mr. Snyder spent the first 14 years of his career as a Mortgage Backed Securities trader at Goldman Sachs. He left Goldman Sachs in 2014 to start the Mortgage Trading business at Societe Generale. Over the course of his 16 years at both Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale he was responsible for trading a variety of Mortgage Backed Securities, including Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Mortgage Derivatives, TBA's and Non-Agency RMBS.

Mr. Snyder graduated from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He is FINRA Series 7 and 63 registered.

Ms Greenland joined South Street in 2016 to manage the growing UK Repo financing business relationships and our newly founded Representative Office. Her role encompasses exploring strategic partnerships and investments for South Street Securities in the UK and Europe. Additionally, she acts as the senior relationship contact for clients in the UK and mainland Europe.

Ms Greenland has 18 years of financial services experience having run the EMEA Relationship Management teams of the Bank of New York Mellon's Broker Dealer Services and Global Product and Communications Strategy for Global Collateral Services and was a member of the European Operating Committee. Habiba has an active dialogue with many of the European trade bodies, academics who focus on Financial Services and Market structure and indeed regulators. Prior to this she ran sales for the Raiffeisen ZentralBank's Securities Lending and Repo division having trained on the Repo trading desk.

Ms Greenland holds a Master of Science from the University of Oxford, St Anne's College and a Diploma in Organisational Leadership from the University of Oxford.

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