Brian Lynn, Founder and CTO

Prior to founding Gem Soup, Brian was Vice President, eTrading Systems, in the Cross-Business eCommerce group of JPMorgan. In this position he was responsible for launching the JPMorgan eXpress web-based institutional trading system as well as developing patent-pending technology for providing Excel-based price display and automated trading.

When Brian joined JPMorgan in 1999, as FpML program manager, he was responsible for launching FpML.org and coordinating JPMorgan’s use of FpML. In this role he participated in the initial planning of the SwapsWire multi-dealer swaps trading platform initiative.

Prior to joining JPMorgan, Brian was Managing Director of Financial Products Technology at CIBC World Markets in its Financial Products group in New York. In this role he was responsible for developing financial analytic models and spread sheet add-ins, market and credit risk calculation and reporting systems, a commodity derivatives trading system, explanatory P/L calculation systems, and operational systems, such as confirmation generation and settlement reporting. Brian worked extensively in interest rate and energy derivatives and was exposed to FX, equity, and credit derivatives.

Prior to joining CIBC FP, Brian worked in technology in a variety of industries, including working on safety critical software in the transportation and nuclear power industries, and object oriented analysis and development in the telecommunications industry. Brian was also responsible for developing software development standards for the Canadian nuclear power industry.

Brian is a graduate of Harvard College, with an A.B. in Physics (hons). He was the winner of Harvard’s Thomas Hoopes prize for his work on chaos theory while a senior.