Management Team

Rich Koppel

Richard Koppel, Managing Director

Rich has more than 20 years' experience in information technology development, implementation, consulting, and management. Prior to youDevise, he consulted to senior management at McKinsey & Company. During his 10 years with McKinsey, Rich guided financial services clients on IT management issues, developed product and market strategies for leading IT providers, and helped lead the firm's computer industry practice.

Rich was also a management consultant at the Information Consulting Group and at Coopers & Lybrand, where he directed large development and implementation projects in the securities industry.

Rich received a BSc in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from New York University, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester.

Colin Berthoud

Colin Berthoud, Founding Partner

Colin is a 20-year enterprise software development industry veteran. He co-founded Summit Financial Systems in 1994, the UK distributor for Summit, a US-based provider of derivatives software. Summit Financial Systems invested the capital it had accumulated in developing a new trading system product known as Tamesis (see www.tamesis.com).

Before co-founding Summit Financial Systems, Colin held senior sales, management and consulting roles at Logica, the leading UK systems integrator. When Logica became the UK distributor for Teknekron (now TIBCO) in the UK, Colin built the nascent business into one of Logica's largest and fastest growing business lines.

Colin gained a BA (Hons) from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Douglas Squirrel

Douglas Squirrel, Chief Technology Officer

Douglas has managed the design, build, and testing of enterprise applications for blue-chip clients from utilities to financial services. He designed youDevise's Information Distribution Server and coaches the team that builds and maintains this revolutionary software. He has also created a team of performance experts who have achieved substantial speed and scalability improvements for a number of youDevise customer applications on a variety of technologies.

Douglas advises the board on technology directions for youDevise and regularly explains the inner workings of our technologies to customers and prospects. Prior to joining youDevise, Douglas developed core technology for TenFold Corporation.

Douglas holds a B.A. in mathematics from Reed College and Master's and Candidate's degrees in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Tim Murphy, General Manager, North America

Tim is an entrepreneurial, independent thinker with a strong record of achievement in software management and sales in the finance sector. Tim has 20 years’ industry experience, including several general management roles. He launched and established SuperDerivatives in the Americas in 2005, building a sales and support team that achieved a six-fold revenue increase in two years.  Before SuperDerivatives he was General Manager for Misys Wholesale Banking Systems in the Americas, where he was responsible for a staff of 140 and annual revenues of $50 million. Earlier in his career he worked in sales and account management for Moneyline Telerate and Reuters Plc, and was an Infantry Officer in the Irish Defense Forces for eight years.  Tim received a BA from the National University of Ireland in Galway and an MSM from the Boston University campus in Israel.