Who We Are
Wall Street is in our DNA. Collectively we have 150 years of operating experience in the Fin-Tech space. We’re former entrepreneurs and CEOs. We intimately understand the challenges facing new founders and established leaders. Through our extensive relationships and expertise, we bring a perspective that allows us to strategically connect the technology creators with the technology consumers. We are proactive investors and advisors who are passionate about technology, entrepreneurship, and helping companies realize their maximum potential.
Justin Brownhill
Managing Partner
Justin brings the unique experience of both executive management and investment banking to the Capital Markets, Financial Services, FinTech and Software sectors. Prior to starting SenaHill, Brownhill was the award-winning founder, CEO and Chairman of The Receivables Exchange (TRE), the first-to-market, real-time online institutional marketplace for the purchase and sale of working capital—a $17 trillion market. Named the most innovative e-commerce company in the world for […]
Gregg Sharenow
SenaHill LP, Chief Financial Officer
Gregg is a strategic, diplomatic leader and patient problem solver. He began his career as a CPA/public accountant specializing in financial services. From there he was the COO and Head of Business Development of National Discount Brokers, the first online discount brokerage firm, later sold to Deutsche Bank. Gregg was a part of the founding team as Director of Equities Trading in Deutsche Bank’s electronic trading […]
Ben Bromberg
Managing Director, Head of Execution
With more than 25 years of experience building and managing leading edge technology enabled businesses, Ben has extensive experience with private equity and hedge fund sponsors on all aspects of deal process, management, and company operations. Ben started his investment banking career at Salomon Brothers, where he worked on multi-billion-dollar M&A and capital raise transactions. Either working directly for private equity and hedge fund firms or […]
George Chrisafis
Managing Director
George brings an extensive array of skills and experience in innovation from his many years as a senior technology professional at several of the major banks and broker dealers including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, BNY Mellon, Convergex and Credit Suisse. He has extensive expertise in both the buy and sell side in order management systems, trading and back and middle office, compliance, and clearance and settlement […]
Bill Shraga
Managing Director
Bill is a seasoned investment banking and corporate finance professional with over 25 years of experience in both capital raising and mergers & acquisitions across a number of industries. Bill is a Managing Director of SenaHill Partners, LLC, where he focuses on the Investment Banking practice. He has expertise in specialty finance/alternative lending, banking technology, wealth technology, capital markets tech, payments, and other areas of fintech and […]
Simon Burger
Director
Simon Burger has 7+ years of investment banking experience in FIG at UBS and the Bank of Montreal, with expertise in M&A for companies in financial technology, insurance, and wealth management. Prior experience includes three years teaching seventh-grade math in North Philadelphia. Simon earned a JD/MBA from UPenn Law/Wharton, and a BA in Philosophy/Poli Sci from Rutgers University.
Peter Marquardt
Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Marquardt is a Partner at Olden Lane LLC, where he manages operations and compliance initiatives for the firm and its affiliated broker dealer and registered investment advisor. Mr. Marquardt is also currently the CCO for SenaHill Partners and their registered Broker-Dealer, and CCO for System Two Advisors, LP an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Mr. Marquardt brings over 30 years of broad-based financial services experience managing […]
R. Todd Ruppert
Managing Director International
Todd has 40 years of experience in the financial services industry. He retired from T. Rowe Price, the global asset management firm with over $850 billion under management, where he was CEO and president of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services, co-president, T. Rowe Price International, and a member of the operating steering committee of the T. Rowe Price Group. Todd joins SenaHill Partners as Managing […]
Alan Ginsberg
Senior Banker
Alan Ginsberg has more than 35 years of experience providing financial advisory services to corporate and private equity clients. Alan began his investment banking career at Salomon Brothers in 1983, followed by being a key member of group moves to UBS and to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He remained at DLJ through its merger with Credit Suisse until 2004, when he was recruited to head HSBC’s […]
Tod Perkins
Senior Banker
Tod Perkins is the founding member of Perkins Advisors LLC, a strategy consulting and advisory firm focused on serving the needs of the financial services industry. Perkins Advisors recent activity includes advising Cowen Inc in its sale to TD Financial ($1.9B EV) as well as Cowen’s acquisitions of Quarton International, MHT Partners and Portico Partners and Cowen’s strategic investment in PolySign, a digital asset clearing platform. […]
Kyle Zasky
SenaHill Limited Partner & Advisor
Kyle is an industry recognized pioneer, entrepreneur and executive in the electronic trading and investment management software arena. Kyle is currently the CEO of LayerOne Financial, an end-end, front, middle and back office infrastructure software provider for the asset management industry. LayerOne provides mission critical technology and services to some of the world’s most sophisticated hedge funds that in aggregate manage over $350B. Kyle joined SenaHill […]
Neil DeSena
SenaHill Partners, Co-Founder (In Memoriam)
As a co-founder of SenaHill Partners, Neil believed the key ingredient to innovation in FinTech is the people who make the technology possible: the leaders, the entrepreneurs, the out-of-the-box thinkers and elite advisors. His spirit, creativity, kindness, integrity and passion were ever-present. Neil passed away February 11th, 2017, but his vision lives on with all of us at SenaHill. Neil started SenaHill after an impressive career […]