Management
SuperDerivatives' executive management team brings a wealth of experience to the direction and operations of the company, drawing from backgrounds in banking, corporate treasury, options trading, hedge funds and venture capital.
Dr. David Gershon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. David Gershon founded SuperDerivatives in 2000 with the aim of introducing transparency to the world of options.
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Russel Levi
Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Support
Russel Levi is responsible for worldwide sales and field operations including account management, client services, training and support.
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Sam Somech
Executive Vice President, Head of R&D
Sam Somech is responsible for SuperDerivatives' global product development activities and has been an investor and a member of the board since 2004.
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Dr. Yuval Levy
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Yuval Levy has been SuperDerivatives' Chief Technology Officer since the company’s inception in 2000.
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Ehud Shrem
Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel
Ehud Shrem is responsible for all legal and business administration affairs, including all contractual engagements, corporate, IP, labour law and other matters.
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Zohar Hod
Vice President, Strategic Sales
Zohar Hod joined SuperDerivatives to specialise in front office to back office derivatives trading, processing and risk management, as well as algorithmic trading.
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David Collins
Vice President, Marketing
David Collins is responsible for the Company's marketing and corporate
communications as well as strategic solutions for Europe.
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Eitan Mikey
Senior Vice President, Solutions for Corporations
Eitan Mikey is responsible for SuperDerivatives' revaluation business operations and for the company’s business activities in the corporate treasury market.
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Rachelly Dor
Vice President, Global Human Resources
Rachelly Dor is responsible for human resources across SuperDerivatives’ global network of offices. Dor brings 15 years of HR experience to SuperDerivatives, including 12 years in senior positions.
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Dr. David Gershon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. David Gershon founded SuperDerivatives in 2000 with the aim of introducing transparency to the world of options. Since then, the company has expanded rapidly to have a strong global presence and is today recognised as the benchmark for option pricing and a market leader in derivatives technology including front end platforms, risk management systems, revaluation services and online execution utilities.
Dr. Gershon’s vision to bring transparency to the world of options has materialised with a significant part of derivatives professionals all over the world utilise SuperDerivatives platforms for their day to day activities. Furthermore, many industry observers credit SuperDerivatives for the sizable growth in the number of options users over the past couple of years and the dramatic increase in liquidity.
Prior to starting SuperDerivatives, Dr. Gershon was Global Head of FX Exotic Options for Barclays Capital, based in the bank’s London headquarters. Earlier in his career he had traded at BZW New York (later to become Barclays Capital), covering emerging markets during their most volatile periods, and at Deutsche Bank in New York. Dr. Gershon’s career on Wall Street began in 1994 in NationsBank’s mortgage department.
Dr. Gershon has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (Superstring theory), an MBA and an M.Sc. in Finance. The combination of his academic background and rich market experience has proved fundamental in the development of the patented SuperDerivatives benchmark pricing model for options, which uniquely provides an accurate reflection of the bid and offer prices of options in the inter-bank market in all asset classes.
Russel Levi
Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Support
Russel Levi is responsible for worldwide sales and field operations including account management, client services, training and support.
Prior to joining SuperDerivatives, Levi served 19 years with Bloomberg LP, starting as a sales representative and rising through the ranks to assume senior positions including Head of EMEA Sales, with revenue of over $1.5 billion and over 500 reports. His most recent appointment was as Bloomberg’s Global Head of Electronic Trading and Order Management Systems Unit.
Sam Somech
Executive Vice President, Head of R&D
Sam Somech is responsible for SuperDerivatives' global product development activities and has been an investor and a member of the board since 2004.
Somech is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on middleware messaging technologies and is an experienced and successful entrepreneur. He founded Data Voice Systems, which was acquired by IBM and became the foundation of IBM’s MQSeries®.
Sam later co-founded and served as CEO of the software company Level 8, which successfully floated on NASDAQ in 1996. Level 8’s technology was acquired by Microsoft to provide the foundation for its MSMQ Messaging application. Sam was also involved in several technology companies such as Traiana, a financial technology company which was later sold to ICAP in 2007, and served as Chairman of Itemfield, which he sold in early 2007 to Informatica Corporation.
Dr. Yuval Levy
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Yuval Levy has been SuperDerivatives' Chief Technology Officer since the company’s inception in 2000. He is credited with setting up both the company’s research and development activities, as well as its global distributed application hosting and delivery network. Levy is involved in all areas of the company’s technology as well as serving as its leading algorithmic scientist.
Prior to his successful career in the world of financial analytics and technology, Levy, who has degrees in Physics and Computer Science, was a prominent scientist in solid-state physics. As a physicist Levy was a full time researcher responsible for a statistical problem-solving high-performance computing center in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Ehud Shrem
Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
Ehud Shrem is responsible for all legal and business administration affairs, including all contractual engagements, corporate, IP, labour law and other matters.
Prior to joining SD Shrem served as senior counsel at Gilat Satellite Networks. Before this, Shrem spent seven years negotiating and litigating commercial and corporate transactions in leading law firms. Shrem has over 17 years experience in international commercial transactions, corporate transactions, commercial litigation and all aspects of contract law. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree with honours from the University of Buckingham in the UK.
Zohar Hod
Vice President, Strategic Sales
Zohar Hod joined SuperDerivatives to specialise in front office to back office derivatives trading, processing and risk management, as well as algorithmic trading.
Based in New York, Hod is responsible for tailoring and implementing the company’s large scale multi-asset solutions to a range of clients in the global banking and capital markets sectors.
Hod joins SuperDerivatives from IBM, where he founded the company’s Trading Solutions Group, IBM's fastest growing professional services practice, creating record annual revenues for IBM in this new practice area.
Prior to joining IBM, Hod was a manager at KPMG/BearingPoint’s wealth management practice, and has founded several successful financial services technology platforms including ViewTrade, which was acquired by a large banking corporation.
David Collins
Vice President, Marketing
David Collins is responsible for the Company's marketing and corporate
communications as well as strategic solutions for Europe.
Collins has over 20 years experience in the derivative markets.
He spent 10 years trading emerging market derivatives for DLJ, BNP and Standard Bank before going on to build the highly successful trading and capital markets practice of City Practitioners, a specialist derivative trading system integrator.
Collins then started the New York office of City Practitioners and ran it as CEO helping see through its sale to Capco where he took the role of Global Head of Package Integration before joining SuperDerivatives.
Eitan Mikey
Senior Vice President, Solutions for Corporations
Eitan Mikey is responsible for SuperDerivatives' revaluation business operations and for the company’s business activities in the corporate treasury market. Additionally he oversees the company’s day-to-day production operations.
With a background in accounting and economics, Mikey has 20 years of experience in varied financial, operational and business development executive positions. Prior to joining SuperDerivatives, he held several senior executive positions with the ICL Group (a $25 billion company and one of the world’s leading specialty chemicals vendors), including CFO of its North American operation, Managing Director of the Economics Division, Vice President of Supply Chain Operations and Vice President for Business Development.
Rachelly Dor
Vice President, Global Human Resources
Rachelly Dor is responsible for human resources across SuperDerivatives’ global network of offices.
Dor brings 15 years of HR experience to SuperDerivatives, including 12 years in senior positions.
Prior to joining SuperDerivatives, she spent six years in the role of Recruitment, Compensation and Benefits Manager at Verint Systems Ltd, where she was also in charge of HR across two of the company's major divisions.
Before that Dor worked for more than eight years as Deputy Area Manager at Manpower Ltd, where she was responsible for five branches as well as managing large recruiting projects.
Dor's academic background is in Psychology and Political Science.
