About Kingfield

Sometimes a complex problem needs a simple solution.

Over the last quarter century, the financial services industry has devoted significant time, energy, and resources to digitizing its processes for trading, clearing and settlement.

Yet, the operating model for handling exceptions is fragmented, outdated and frustratingly inadequate. To make it worse, exceptions are typically handled via emailing, faxing and “snail mailing” of documents – resulting in human error, low margins, inefficiencies, and overstaffing.

At Kingfield, we set our sights on creating a standardized ecosystem that brings back-office operations, namely exception resolution, into the 21st century. 

How do you tackle a challenge this big?

By focusing on one problem at a time and collaborating closely with our clients, we’re stringing together humble wins to build a better, more efficient, fully digital back-office.

With a team of seasoned leadership across financial services, Kingfield’s executive team is motivated to push harder, reach higher, and never lose sight of their corporate mission: To build a world-class, next-generation ecosystem for the global financial marketplace.

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Real-time
Interactions

When providing unparalleled customer service, you don’t have time to waste; get up-to-the minute updates.

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One Shared Platform
for All Parties

No more chasing down documents, emails, or playing phone tag. Every counterparty has access to one source of truth.

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Straight-Through
Processing

Custom-controlled automation saves you time while minimizing risk.

Our Team

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John Rodefeld

CPO, Co-Founder

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John Rodefeld

CPO, Co-Founder

John is a bank operations executive, having spent 35 years at both Salomon Brothers and Barclays Capital. He recently retired from Barclays as a Managing Director, where he managed global operations groups, and client service support.

John is an industry-recognized leader with extensive experience across all products, services, and functions within the support infrastructure.

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Jamie Bernardin

CTO, Co-Founder

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Jamie Bernardin

CTO, Co-Founder

Jamie is an experienced software leader and innovator with a track record of successfully creating, building, and bringing to market products in cloud, mobile, and financial technology.

Jamie was founder and president of DataSynapse: acquired by TIBCO 2009. Jamie was a NASA graduate fellow and received a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Brown University.

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Craig Welch

CEO, Founder

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Craig Welch

CEO, Founder

Craig is a serial fintech entrepreneur who previously founded and was CEO of AcadiaSoft, the industry standard for collateral management.

Craig maintains a similar vision for Kingfield by developing common case management and industry standard workflows for financial services operations.

Craig started his career at Salomon Brothers, later working at Fidelity when the entrepreneurial spirit modified his financial services path and he founded Evare, which was acquired by SS&C.

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Mark Cox

COO

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Mark Cox

COO, Advisor

Mark is a market structure expert, having spent 25 years at both BlackRock and CME Group. He recently retired from BlackRock as a Managing Director, where he was Chief Operating Officer of BlackRock’s Global Investment Operations organization. 

 

Mark is an industry recognized leader in financial market structure and technology. He has extensive experience across all financial products, post-trade operations and market infrastructure.

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Richard Griffith

Head of Sales

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Richard Griffith

Head of Sales

Richard brings over 15 years of expertise in the financial services and software industry. Early in his career, he worked in a variety of Investment Banking and Capital Markets roles at Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, Barclays and Goldman Sachs.

For the last five years, he has focused on technology sales.  He was a Partner and Head of Sales at Streetlinx, co-ran North American Commercial Sales at Palantir and, most recently, served as the Head of North American Sales and Account Management at Symphony Communications.

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Aubrey Bowser

VP of Product

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Aubrey Bowser

VP of Product

Aubrey brings over 20 years of expertise designing and building software applications. Early in her career, she was part of the founding team at LimeWire, producing the commercial website and the platform’s interface design.

For the last decade, she has specialized in design incubation for new products across diverse industries for a variety of brands like Rev.com, Blackrock, Integral Ad Science and Vivendi Dailymotion. Along with 2 BA’s and a Master’s, she holds a patent for an ad-tech automation tool, an award from Normal Nielsen Group for usability, and an Emmy for an HBO website.

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Fred Bromberg

Strategic Advisor

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Fred Bromberg

Strategic Advisor

Fred focuses on Kingfield’s go-to-market strategy, product rollout, and business development. He has over 20 years of experience leading business growth and optimizing organizations across the globe – including Germany, UK and the US.

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Peter Johnston

Industry Advisor

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Peter Johnston

Industry Advisor

Peter joined Kingfield in February of 2020. He is a career financial services operations professional, working 30 years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director leading large broker-dealer operations teams globally. Peter most recently retired from BNY Mellon as an Executive Vice President leading Securities, Treasury Services, and Corporate Trust Operations globally.

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