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Senior Practitioners. Every Engagement.

Each AntePartners engagement is led by former executives who have held the role they are filling. The career histories below are the evidence. The institutions, the roles, and the outcomes speak for themselves.

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THE TYPICAL Size of a Senior-Only Engagement Team

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Hands-On Embedded Delivery

Our Model

How We're Structured. How We Engage.

Our Commitment

Every engagement is designed to grow your team's acumen through weekly reviews, structured knowledge transfer, and frameworks your team keeps and reuses indefinitely.

OUR STANDARD

Every principal has personally led the type of engagement they are delivering, not just advised on it from the outside. This is not a credential claim. It is a hiring standard.

Our Model

Small teams of proven executives, not large pyramids of junior resources billed at senior rates, and not advice that creates ongoing dependency.

Our Promise

Observable results within 90 days. Your team more capable at close than at the start. Full transparency throughout.

CORE LEADERSHIP. SENIOR BENCH

The principals profiled below lead every AntePartners engagement. Where additional capacity is required across our five practice areas, we draw from a vetted bench of senior practitioners - each with comparable institutional depth, each meeting AntePartners' zero-junior-staff standard. You engage our people; our people engage only peers. References for bench practitioners are available upon request.

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Mat Small

Managing Partner

AntePartners Inc.

  • C-Suite Advisor & Trusted Counsel
  • Front Office: Fixed Income, MBS, FX, Equities & Derivatives
  • Operations Leadership & Transformation
  • Large-Scale Technology Group Management
  • Program Recovery & Turnaround
  • Model Risk & Quantitative Finance
  • Regulatory Remediation & Governance
  • Banks, Exchanges & Investment Managers
  • Global Experience: US, UK, Germany, Sweden
  • Enterprise Data Strategy

Managing Partner

AntePartners Inc.

Senior Vice President

Fannie Mae

Partner

Ernst & Young Financial Services Advisory

Partner

Capco

Head of Technology

American Stock Exchange

Vice President

Citicorp / Citibank

"Mat has operated in the front office, in operations, and in technology at each of the institution types he advises. That combination is genuinely uncommon."
- COLLEAGUE, ERNST & YOUNG FINANCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY

CAREER

Mat Small is the Managing Partner of AntePartners. His 30-year career spans front office trading, operations, and technology, three functions he has led in each of the institution types AntePartners serves: global banks, a major US exchange, and a large GSE. His traded product experience covers fixed income, mortgage-backed securities, equities, warrants, and derivatives.

At Citicorp, Mat managed multiple aspects of MBS trading in New York before relocating to Frankfurt for two years to run the European Warrants and Derivatives businesses, then to London to lead cross-business transformation programs across European and global markets. At the American Stock Exchange, based between Stockholm and New York, he led the design and delivery of the exchange's next-generation electronic trading platform and subsequently restructured the technology organization, reducing a $168 million annual budget by 24% over 16 months.

At Fannie Mae as Senior Vice President, Mat led the largest transformation program in the firm's history: redesigning all capital markets business processes for real-time trade management, implementing a new trading platform, replacing the securities accounting infrastructure, outsourcing operations, and establishing an enterprise data strategy. Accounting close cycles compressed from weeks to days; the analytics platform methodology was subsequently replicated across multiple enterprise initiatives.

In professional services, he served as Partner at both Capco and Ernst & Young Financial Services Advisory, advising C-suite and board clients on transformation, regulatory governance, and risk frameworks. At AntePartners his work includes regulatory health assessments, model risk framework design, enforcement action remediation, program turnaround, and fractional C-suite leadership. He has worked on engagements in the US, UK, Germany, and Sweden.

Areas of Expertise

  • C-Suite & Board Advisory
  • Front Office Trading Management
  • Fixed Income, MBS, FX, Equities & Derivatives
  • Operations Leadership
  • Technology Organization Management
  • Program Recovery
  • Model Risk Management
  • SR 26-2 Model Risk Governance
  • Regulatory Governance
  • International Engagements (UK, Germany, Sweden)
  • Enterprise Data Strategy
  • Capital Markets Technology
  • COTS Implementation

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George Ruzek

Partner

AntePartners Inc.

  • C-Suite Advisor & Technology Strategist
  • Model Risk & Quantitative Analytics
  • Regulatory Compliance & Remediation
  • Large-Scale Program Delivery
  • Cyber & Application Security
  • Enterprise Architecture & Agile
  • Banking & Mortgage Technology

Partner

AntePartners Inc.

Vice President, Bank Technology & Data Strategy

USAA

Senior Director, Commercial Credit Technology

Capital One

Executive Director & CDO, Auto Finance Technology

JPMorgan Chase

Vice President, Common Analytics

Fannie Mae

"George built and ran the modeling and analytics infrastructure for a capital markets portfolio measured in trillions. He knows exactly what sound model governance looks like from the inside."
- COLLEAGUE, FANNIE MAE COMMON ANALYTICS

Career

George Ruzek is a Partner at AntePartners with more than 25 years of senior technology leadership at USAA, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Fannie Mae. His work spans model risk and quantitative analytics, regulatory compliance programs, cyber and application security, and enterprise architecture.

At Fannie Mae, George served as Vice President of Common Analytics, overseeing a division of more than 150 technical professionals responsible for the financial modeling and analytics systems supporting the firm's MBS and capital markets operations. This work - building model execution infrastructure to regulatory standards at scale - is the foundation of AntePartners' proprietary Model Risk Management Framework.

At JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director and Chief Development Officer for Auto Finance Technology, he introduced Agile delivery practices across a large distributed engineering organization and designed the Cyber Remediation Program for Chase Mortgage and Auto Finance, a program covering more than 1,100 employees and 500 applications. At USAA, he led modernization of banking applications and digital interfaces, oversaw the technology program for Servicemember Civil Relief Act compliance, and managed business continuity and disaster recovery. At Capital One, he transformed the commercial credit underwriting process, compressing cycle times while maintaining regulatory compliance.

George holds a B.S. in Mathematics with a specialty in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has authored a book on software development and spoken at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

Areas of Expertise

  • C-Suite Advisory
  • Banking Technology
  • Model Risk Management
  • SR 26-2 Model Risk Governance
  • Quantitative Analytics Systems
  • Regulatory Remediation
  • Cyber & Application Security
  • Agile Transformation
  • Credit Underwriting Technology
  • Enterprise Architecture

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Patrick Connolly

Principal

AntePartners Inc.

  • Program Recovery & Turnaround
  • Model Risk & Regulatory Programs
  • Capital Markets & Securities Technology
  • Regulatory Audit & Compliance
  • SDLC, Agile & COTS Implementation
  • Testing Strategy & Governance
  • Cross-Functional PMO Leadership

Principal

AntePartners Inc.

Program Director

Morgan Stanley

Program Director, T+2 & CAT

Société Générale

Vice President, Capital Markets Infrastructure

Fannie Mae

Legal Discovery Vendor Manager

JPMorgan Chase

Head of Strategy & Governance, Global Rates IT

Deutsche Bank

"Patrick ran three major automation programs concurrently at Morgan Stanley and still generated over a million dollars a month in savings. That's execution discipline."
- COLLEAGUE, MORGAN STANLEY

Career

Patrick Connolly is a Principal at AntePartners with more than 30 years in capital markets, securities technology, and financial services operations. His institutional career spans Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Fannie Mae, General Electric, and Citigroup, across fixed income, rates, mortgage-backed securities, and exchange technology.

At Morgan Stanley, Patrick managed three major automation programs simultaneously while implementing a portfolio of change-the-bank enhancements - generating savings in excess of $1 million per month. At Fannie Mae as Vice President for Capital Markets Infrastructure, he directed a complex change program integrating multiple PMOs and building a unified testing function for end-to-end integration of an enterprise-scale implementation spanning BlackRock's Aladdin and SimCorp platforms.

At Société Générale, he delivered the T+2 Trade Settlement project on time and under budget and led the vendor proof of concept for the Consolidated Audit Trail program, integrating the firm's data lake with new external reporting requirements. At Deutsche Bank as Head of Strategy and Governance for Global Rates IT and Commodities IT, he developed a detailed working knowledge of how large technology organizations must be structured and governed to sustain regulatory compliance over time - knowledge he applies directly in program recovery and governance redesign engagements.

His regulatory program work includes audit remediation and model risk management engagements at both JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.

Areas of Expertise

  • Program Recovery
  • Model Risk Management
  • Regulatory Audit Programs
  • Capital Markets Technology
  • T+2 & Trade Settlement
  • Testing Strategy & Governance
  • SDLC & Agile
  • COTS Implementation
  • PMO Design & Leadership
  • Cross-Functional Delivery

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Tony Mazza

Principal

AntePartners Inc.

  • Operations Leadership
  • AML / KYN Compliance
  • OMS, EMS, Middle Office
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Fixed Income Technology
  • New York Licensed Attorney

Principal

AntePartners Inc.

Chief Operating Officer

International Enterprise Networking Technology Firm

Senior Vice President

Government Contracting Firm

Managing Director

Regional Consulting Firm

Co-Founder & Equity Partner

Software Engineering Co. (acquired by ADP)

"Tony built the system that became the industry standard for real-time fixed income trading. That's not a consulting credential, that's an engineering one."
- COLLEAGUE, FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY

Career

Tony Mazza is a Principal at AntePartners with more than 30 years across financial services operations, compliance, and technology. His career spans capital markets technology, AML/KYC compliance, business process design, OMS and EMS implementation, and regulatory remediation. He is a New York licensed attorney, which he applies directly to AntePartners' banking and regulatory compliance practice, including SOC/SAS and BCBS compliance work.

Earlier in his career, Tony co-founded a software engineering firm that developed a real-time fixed income securities trading solution, including custom inventory management and Federal Reserve clearing functions, that became the de facto industry standard for SAS-based trading. The firm was subsequently acquired by ADP. He co-holds three technology patents from this work.

As Senior Vice President of a government contracting firm, Tony led client engagements involving large-scale system implementations at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, E*Trade, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Nomura, and Citadel. He subsequently served as Managing Director of a regional consulting firm, leading financial analysis and quantitative assessments within the Business Due Diligence practice, and as Chief Operating Officer of an international technology firm specializing in enterprise-grade networking solutions.

At AntePartners, Tony's engagements draw on his combined background in commercial financial technology, including OMS, EMS, and middle office operations, and his regulatory compliance experience in AML/KYC, portfolio quantitative assessment, and business process modeling. His legal background adds a dimension to regulatory work that is uncommon in technology-focused consulting.

Tony holds a JD, an MBA, and an MS in Cybersecurity. He has authored numerous professional articles.

Areas of Expertise

  • Operations Leadership
  • AML / KYC Compliance
  • OMS & EMS Implementation
  • Middle Office Operations
  • Fixed Income Technology
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • SOC / SAS Compliance
  • BCBS Compliance
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Portfolio Quantitative Assessment
  • Business Due Diligence
  • Technology patents (3)
  • New York Licensed Attorney

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