Matthew Roggenburg

Chief Executive Officer

Matt is a 35-year veteran of the municipal market with broad industry experience. He held senior positions at JP Morgan Securities, PNC Capital Markets, UBS Securities, and Goldman Sachs. While at JP Morgan, he led the Municipal Capital Markets team, which developed industry-leading bespoke debt and derivative solutions for municipal clients. At PNC, he managed the East Coast public finance investment banking team. In addition, Mr. Roggenburg co-founded an MSRB-registered municipal advisory firm, Cityview Capital Solutions. During that time, he served on the MSRB’s Professional Qualifications Committee charged with the development of its municipal advisor qualification exam. Matt also spent several years in the municipal credit enhancement sector with an affiliate of MBIA, assisting with the formation of both Financial Security Assurance (now a part of Assured Guaranty) and Connie Lee Insurance Company. Mr. Roggenburg has held FINRA Series 7, 52, 53 and 63 Licenses. Matt is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Deepak Adinarayana

President, Founder & COO

Deepak is a founding member of Otaras. During his 18 years in technology and management consulting, Deepak held senior roles helping clients like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Citi, PNC, etc. in developing and delivering software products, solutions and services in the Capital Markets and Wealth Management. Most recently, he was Director and Financial Services Practice Head at Iris Software where he took to market an enterprise product to automate presale processes in municipal bond underwriting. He has robust understanding of the financial advisory and underwriting business processes in the Municipal Market. He can discover needs/gaps in the market, understand business processes and follow through with technology solutions. Deepak is a graduate in Operations Research from The University of Texas at Austin.

Carol Hargrave

Chief Marketing Officer

Carol is a seasoned marketer with experience in startup marketing and in FinTech. Carol has held a variety of senior marketing and leadership roles. Most recently she was the Chief Marketing Officer at Klarna, a global provider of e-commerce payment solutions, based in Stockholm, Sweden. At Klarna Carol led a major growth initiative to help position the Klarna brand with both merchants and consumers. Prior to Klarna, Carol led high-achieving teams at Citibank, Bill Me Later and PayPal. She was part of the Bill Me Later team which was successfully acquired by PayPal in 2008. She has a proven track record across a variety of areas including business development, marketing strategy, B2B marketing and consumer marketing. Today, Carol advises a variety of startups in verticals that include FinTech, EdTech, and SaaS products. She enjoys building strategies for businesses to go-to-market and to develop their growth engines

John Buckman

Vice President of Legal Affairs

John is a corporate attorney and the company’s Vice President of Legal Affairs. An entrepreneur at heart, John has lent a hand in founding a number of startup companies, while maintaining a strong foothold in legal transactional and compliance matters. During his 20+ year legal career, John has worked as an associate with two multi-national law firms and has represented a number of clients, including Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Buckman is ACAMS certified and is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and New York. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Creighton University School of Law

Matthew Roggenburg

Chief Executive Officer

Matt is a 35-year veteran of the municipal market with broad industry experience. He held senior positions at JP Morgan Securities, PNC Capital Markets, UBS Securities, and Goldman Sachs. While at JP Morgan, he led the Municipal Capital Markets team, which developed industry-leading bespoke debt and derivative solutions for municipal clients. At PNC, he managed the East Coast public finance investment banking team. In addition, Mr. Roggenburg co-founded an MSRB-registered municipal advisory firm, Cityview Capital Solutions. During that time, he served on the MSRB’s Professional Qualifications Committee charged with the development of its municipal advisor qualification exam. Matt also spent several years in the municipal credit enhancement sector with an affiliate of MBIA, assisting with the formation of both Financial Security Assurance (now a part of Assured Guaranty) and Connie Lee Insurance Company. Mr. Roggenburg has held FINRA Series 7, 52, 53 and 63 Licenses. Matt is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Greg Usry

Senior Municipal Industry Executive

Greg spent over 30 years in municipal finance, including buy and sell side management. For the bulk of his career he was an investment banker and capital markets professional at JP Morgan and Citi. While at Citi Greg served on the Municipal Securities Division management committee and was responsible for all credit product structuring and origination; including credit facilities, issuer derivatives, reinvestments, structured notes and direct lending. Following the merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers Greg was charged with building the firm’s derivatives and reinvestments desk.

Following his time at Citi Greg was a managing director at CapRok Capital where he advised MBIA (National) and ACA on their distressed portfolios, and was engaged by the Lehman Bankruptcy estate as an advisor and expert witness for their municipal structured reinvestment portfolio.

More recently Greg was a principal and head of origination for Rosemawr Management, a $1 billion municipal hedge fund focused on distressed and special situation investing. He also served as head of business development for MuniRisk, a start up financial technology company.

Greg has served on the MSRB new products committee and was the co-author of the derivatives market best practices. He held his series 24, 7, 53 and 63.

He is a past boardmember of Student Sponsor Partnership, the Clemson University Alumni National Council and currently serves as the Finance Chairman for the City of Rye, NY Greg graduated from Clemson University.