Management Team

SHANNON BYRNE SUSKO - President and CEO – is the former co-founder, President and CEO of Paradata Systems Inc. She has over 20 years of experience building technology platforms and technology companies for the financial services industry. In January 2006, Shannon led the sale of Paradata to Payment Processing Inc., based in California. She joined their team as Executive Vice-President of Product and Technology and remained until January 2009. Prior to joining Paradata, she worked with her own software consulting firm, Embyr Consultants, as well as for Geovision, Siemens, DMR Group, and Statistics Canada. Shannon has a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science from Saint Mary’s University and a Masters of Computer Science from the Technical University of Nova Scotia.

Shannon was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 for the year 2000, and was awarded the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada’s leading Women Entrepreneurs in 2006.

CHRISTIAN COTICHINI – Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer – has spent his career creating and developing advanced technology systems that work. Christian founded Absolute Software, which went public in 2000 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He served on the Absolute Board until 2008. In 1999, Christian founded MAKE Technologies which has developed a world leading software enabled system to help migrate large legacy systems from flat file, mainframes to modern service oriented architecture. Today he serves on the Board of MAKE Technologies. Christian is a member of Young Entrepreneurs Organization.

MARTIN ORBACH – Director of Product – brings over 20 years of experience in brokerage and investment management to Subserveo. Martin has held positions at Bear Stearns, Wells Fargo and Flemings in compliance, sales trading, market-making and back office operations. Prior to Subserveo, Martin was Director of Financial Services Applications at Sun Microsystems, as well as a consultant to the financial software vendor industry, specializing in Canadian and US Regulatory Compliance, trading, execution and transaction settlements. Martin attended the University of South Africa and holds FINRA compliance and regulatory certifications.