In his seven years at SIG, Ashton has also held positions as a Senior Database Developer, Team Lead for Institutional Brokerage Middle/Back Office Systems and as a Senior Analyst/Modeler. In the latter role, Ashton helped develop the initial Enterprise Domain Model that has become the foundation for new system development at SIG.

 Ashton has spent most of his career in Financial Services, with 14 years of that in Software Development. Prior to joining SIG, Ashton was a Development DBA at The Sycamore Group, a consulting firm. Previously, at Sanchez Computer Associates and Mellon Bank, NA, he worked on demand deposit, G/L and treasury systems. Ashton holds a BA in Political Science from The University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Information Systems from Drexel University.

Scott Scalf  heads SIG’s Enterprise Technology Group, which guides the firm’s strategic technology vision, provides enterprise architecture and systems engineering assistance across all solutions teams, and develops enterprise systems, infrastructure, and reusable software assets. Scott has spent most of his 20-year professional IT career in the capital markets industry, first as software engineer and then as enterprise architect and technical manager. 

Scott has been with SIG for nearly 7 years where, before taking the reigns of the Enterprise Technologies Group, he led the Brokerage Trading Systems team.  Prior to joining SIG, Scott was CTO of Strategic Software Systems, a boutique consulting firm specializing in SOA practices and the development of large-scale, heterogeneous, real-time distributed computing systems for financial services firms; via S3, Scott engaged in work for Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones, Trade.com, Factiva, and similar firms.

Last revised: April 14th, 2009