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Management |
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Mr. Sanath Fernando, who co-founded Ridgecrest Financial in the United States, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ridgecrest.
Mr. Fernando is a product of D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo and was a professional athlete. He holds a BS and Ms in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and BSEcon in Finance also from The University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Fernando's career spans 16 years, of which 13 years was in the securities industry where he held several high profile positions such as Managing Director of Schwab Soundview Capital Markets, Vice President of Epoch Partners, and Principal of Banc of America Securities
At Schwab Soundview Mr. Fernando ran the program trading technology group, giving the trading desk the ability to differentiate itself with technology and the technology team for the program trading business at Banc of America Securities. At Epoch Partners he ran the trading technology organization, building an equity trading platform on a shoestring budget and spinning off a trading technology startup. |
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At the start of his securities career, Mr. Fernando developed quantitative trading systems at Susquehanna International Group. Prior to Susquehanna, he worked as an engineer at a small embedded system company.
Mr. Fernando is a Citizen of the United States of America. He is married with two children.
He returned to this Country to establish and run the Ridgecrest Sri Lanka office.
Mr. Fernando is a member of the Presidential Task Force and functions as the ambassador for English & ICT development. |
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Staff Highlights |
Ridgecrest is made up of a dynamic team of multi-disciplinary professionals and support staff. They come from scientific, technical, managerial, and professional disciplines. Staff members are diligently selected with particular consideration given to their experience, values and ability to cater to the individual needs of our customers.
We have five major departments: Engineering, Quality Assurance, Support, Admin/Finance and Marketing.
Given that the Ridgecrest work environment is a unique blend of work and fun, new strategies and approaches are constantly used to bring about a paradigm shift in individual and team behavior. Ridgecrest focuses on continuous staff education, keeping abreast of new technologies and new developments in our client business domains.
The contributions of Ridgecrest staff are numerous and varied and underpin the Company's important "Embracing Technology, Empowering People" ethos. |
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