Open Solutions’ senior team represents a talented pool of professionals with industry knowledge and experience. The following is a corporate résumé of Open Solutions’ senior management team.

Louis Hernandez, Jr.
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Louis Hernandez, Jr. is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Open Solutions Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide enabling technologies for financial institutions. Open Solutions has been named one of the 25 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies of 2006 by Forbes Magazine and in 2007 was ranked number two on the Bank Technology News 10 Technology Companies To Watch report. It has been named to the Connecticut Technology Council’s Fast 50; the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500; and American Banker and Financial Insights’ FinTech 100.  These organizations recognize leading companies in the technology sector for outstanding sales growth. 

In addition, Mr. Hernandez has held senior positions at several high technology companies, and began his career at Price Waterhouse LLP.

Mr. Hernandez is a recognized technology executive having been appointed by the Governor of Connecticut to be vice chair of the Governor’s Council on Economic Competitiveness and Technology as a representative of business with expertise in information technology.  Mr. Hernandez chaired the Technology Transfer Advisory board set up by the Governor’s Council to develop strategies for technology transfer and commercialization in the state, is the past chairman of the Connecticut Technology Council and the former vice chair of the Commission for Educational Technology, where he recently completed a three-year appointment issued by the Governor.  He also serves on the board of directors of HSBC Finance Corporation, the consumer lending arm of one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, HSBC Holdings and Avid Technology Inc., a publicly-traded company and worldwide leader in providing tools for film, video, audio, 3D animation, gaming and broadcast professionals. 

Mr. Hernandez is also active in several community issues, including serving as a member of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Center for Science & Exploration, a statewide cultural, entertainment and educational institution; a board member of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, an organization dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children; and a corporator of the Eastern Connecticut Health Network Inc. (ECHN), a not-for-profit hospital and health system network.  

Mr. Hernandez is also very involved in all levels of soccer.  Along with playing in his own league, he is a licensed premier and travel club youth soccer coach.  He is also a part-owner of the Boston Breakers, a women's professional soccer team.  The Boston Breakers are one of the eight teams in the newly reformed Women's United Soccer Association.

Mr. Hernandez is a past recipient of the Hartford Business Journal’s Business Person of the Year and has been named one of the Hartford Business Journal's top executives under 40 and was an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.  He was also named one of the financial service industry’s five most innovative leaders, a 2007 Innovator of the Year and inducted into the newly formed Leadership Hall of Fame by Bank Technology News, a national financial services publication.

Mr. Hernandez has had several articles published by leading journals and speaks regularly on the topics of technology, economics, strategic planning and globalization.

Roswell (Ross) M. Curtis
Executive Vice President, North America
Ross Curtis joined Open Solutions from GXS, where he was senior vice president of Global Sales, a member of the management committee and responsible for a 200-person global sales force. Prior to GXS, Mr. Curtis served as executive vice president for Worldwide Sales at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), a position he held since February 2000. Prior to that position, Mr. Curtis was managing partner in charge of Sales at KPMG Consulting from 1997 until February 2000. He joined KPMG Consulting in June 1996 as director, Business Development, and was elected partner in 1997. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Curtis served as vice president of Worldwide Field Sales Operations for Mergent International, a company providing security software for PCs. Prior to this, he spent three years working for Oracle holding the positions of group director for Strategic Alliances, group sales director for the utility vertical, and regional sales manager. From 1983 to 1988, Mr. Curtis worked for Applied Data Research (ADR) progressing from account manager to area sales vice president. Mr. Curtis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Franklin & Marshall College.

Rashid Desai
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Rashid Desai joined Open Solutions in May 2007 as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He is responsible for overseeing Open Solutions’ worldwide product development efforts. Mr. Desai joins Open Solutions from Equifax, where he was senior vice president of technology responsible for leading the development of business and consumer data products and platforms for B2B and B2C customers. In his previous role at Equifax, he was responsible for setting up a Global Project Management Office, which established an application portfolio based project planning and management methodology for technology.  Additionally, Desai was responsible for setting up the Global Development Center program for Equifax by establishing software development centers across the globe. Prior to joining Equifax, he was director of technology at Fujitsu Consulting, leading enterprise solution delivery for its clients.

Wayne Ginn
Senior Vice President, International
Mr. Ginn joined Open Solutions in 2005 from the Misys Retail Banking Division where he served as Chief Executive Officer and was responsible for directing the division‘s global strategy, customer satisfaction, revenue growth and profitability.

Prior to joining Misys in 2003,  Mr. Ginn held senior management positions as Senior Vice President of System Access (Europe) Ltd (2000 - 2002), and Senior Vice President/Managing Director, ALLTEL, EMEA (1996-2000).  In his capacity as Senior Vice President of System Access (Europe), he chaired and spoke at many international banking technology conferences primarily in Central and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Ginn is a well-known figure within banking technology solutions providers with 30 years experience of delivering IT solutions to global financial institutions, 21 of these years spent with ALLTEL in various operational and management roles.  During his tenure as Senior Vice President/Managing Director, ALLTEL, the EMEA region saw rapid growth with revenues increasing above and beyond projected forecasts within new territories for the company in Central Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Dave Krystowiak
Executive Vice President, Operations
Dave Krystowiak joined Open Solutions from Still Point Advisors, LLC, where he was president of the independent consulting firm that focused on the development of strategic growth plans for small entrepreneurial businesses. Prior to Still Point, Mr. Krystowiak spent more than 15 years with Fiserv, Inc. where he began as vice president in the core processing business unit and held several other senior management positions before being appointed a division president in 2000. As division president, he was responsible for four business units that provided technology based services for financial institutions and private label credit services to captive finance companies. Mr. Krystowiak began his career with Marine Bank Corporation, now Bank One, in Milwaukee where he held positions in technology outsourcing, bank credit card processing and merchant services.

Michael D. Nicastro
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Prior to joining Open Solutions in 1994, Mike Nicastro spent 10 years with the Data Services Division of the NCR Corporation in the marketing and management of micro based financial systems, leaving NCR as the National Product Manager of Platform/Branch Automation. While with NCR, Mr. Nicastro was one of 15 employees worldwide to win the “Chairman’s Customer Satisfaction Award.” Mr. Nicastro spent the nine years prior to NCR working in the banking industry with Connecticut based Bristol Savings Bank, as well as New York based Citicorp. During his tenure with these organizations he held positions in branch management, lending, underwriting and marketing. Mr. Nicastro holds a Bachelors Degree in Marketing from Central Connecticut State University and a Juris Doctor from Western New England College, School of Law.

Greg O'Brien
SVP, Human Resources
Greg joined Open Solutions in 2004. He has more than 20 years' executive level experience in international human resources and operations in both public and private firms. His broad range of functional executive experience includes human resources, business strategy, realignment, finance, project management, M&As and IPOs. Before joining Open Solutions, Greg was VP, Human Resources, Worldwide, at Mercator Software Inc, a public international business integration software solutions company. Prior to Mercator, Greg served as VP Operations and Chief Administrative Officer for the international group of CSK Corporation, a large Japanese software and services company.

Greg holds an MBA in Management from Pace University, New York.

Kenneth Saunders
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Ken Saunders joined Open Solutions in January of 2006 as EVP & CFO. Prior to joining Open Solutions, Mr. Saunders served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Peregrine Systems, Inc. which was recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company.  He had joined Peregrine in August 2004 and, as CFO, was instrumental in the successful turnaround of this company.

Most recently, Mr. Saunders -- who has more than 20 years of experience in finance and accounting -- served as CFO of Fair Isaac Corp. (NYSE: FIC), after it acquired HNC Software in August 2002 (NASDAQ) where he also served as CFO and held several other senior management roles. Prior to HNC, he was vice president of finance and CFO of Risk Data Corp. before it was acquired by HNC. Previously, he held a number of finance and accounting management roles in both the public accounting and private sectors.

Mr. Saunders is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Widener University in Philadelphia, Penn.

Thomas N. Tartaro
SVP, General Counsel & Secretary
Tom Tartaro leads the company’s Legal Department and is responsible for overseeing the company's worldwide legal affairs including mergers & acquisitions, corporate financing, intellectual property, litigation and strategic alliances.  He is also responsible for Open Solutions’ corporate governance and the internal audit and compliance functions.  Mr. Tartaro joined Open Solutions in 2001.  Since joining the company, he has overseen the company’s Initial Public Offering in 2003, Follow-on Offering in 2004, Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes Offering in 2005 and 18 acquisitions and related debt financings including the Company's go-private transaction in January 2007.

Prior to joining Open Solutions, Mr. Tartaro was in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area, starting in the Washington D.C. offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae LLP and Preston Gates & Ellis LLP.  Tom holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from Hofstra University.

Other Key Executives

Tim Clewley
SVP & GM, Complementary Products Group
Tim joined Open Solutions in January 2007. He brings more than 20 years of sales and sales management experience to his position. Prior to joining Open Solutions, Tim spent seven years as SVP of sales at P&H Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based corporate cash management solutions. His focus was on strategic account planning and long term business relationships. Tim’s focus at Open Solutions is to grow the client base for our expanding suite of complementary products through sales to both core and non-core clients, as well as through channel relationships. He works closely with the Strategic Solutions Group, IPTG and Corporate Financial Services.

Gary Daniel
SVP, International Business Development
Gary joined Open Solutions in 2001 from ALLTEL Information Services (now Fidelity National Financial), a large, publicly traded software and services provider to the financial services industry, where he was senior vice president of the Community Financial Institution Group. Earlier in his 40-year career in the financial services industry, Gary was executive vice president of a $10 billion bank that provided data processing services for community banks. He was also general manager of a company providing software and services to credit unions and also served on the board of directors of a large credit union. He began his career at a large computer manufacturer and he was a charter member of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association. Additionally, Gary is a member of the American Management Association as well as the Sales & Marketing Executives Association.

Gary is well-recognized in the financial services industry and is a frequent writer and speaker on financial services topics.

Blair Goulet,
SVP & GM, Credit Union Group and President, Open Solutions Canada
Mr. Goulet joined Open Solutions in mid-2005 as the president of Open Solutions Canada. His responsibilities were expanded in 2008 to include the credit union market for the United States. Prior to Open Solutions, Mr. Goulet was with Solcorp, a financial services software division of EDS, where he spent four years in various senior executive positions. Most recently he held the position of senior vice president of Strategy and Operations. In this role, he was responsible for corporate strategy, product strategy, corporate marketing, HR, finance and operations.  Mr. Goulet’s previous experience also includes more than 15 years of various senior management positions at Xerox Corporation and the vice presidency of sales and marketing for a public wireless data communications software and solutions company.

Mr. Goulet holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and has completed executive and non-degree programs at The Wharton School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the University of Chicago Graduate Business School.

Mr. Goulet is active in the community and has sat on the boards of such organizations as Ronald McDonald House and Junior Achievement.

David Mitchell
SVP & GM, Banking Group
David joined Open Solutions in February of 2000 and brings more than 18 years of domestic and international high technology venture experience to the company. Since joining Open Solutions, David has held various positions responsible for full profit and loss management, strategic direction, growth initiatives, and operations for all of Open Solutions’ product lines. Prior to joining Open Solutions, David held various executive positions at publicly-traded enterprise software companies servicing the financial services sector.

David has received several awards from the American Management Association, the Harvard Law School Consortium and the Center for Creative Leadership. David received a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Central Connecticut State University and earned his certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from Harvard University. David also serves on the board of the Connecticut Technology Council and is an Executive Chair for the Technology Accelerator Program.