ABOUT US
   
 

We Create Great Ideas that Solve Real World Business Problems

Pillar Software has been around since 1995 and has created a high quality solutions. 
Stick to What You Know

Pillar Software has an understanding in:

  • Pre-Trade Decision-Making
  • Order Execution
  • Order Routing
  • Order Placement
  • Trade Confirmation
  • Trade Allocation
  • Clearance
  • Settlement


Do What Your Good At

Pillar Software is a group of people with the knowledge and experience in large scale software development and deployment for financial institutions. 
 

 

Who We Are

  Sam Schmuter

Dr. Sam Schmuter has been for the last 3 years, the CIO of software development and operations, in a hedge fund.  Sam was responsible for day-to-day operations and a development team that developed quantitative trading models.  He is an experienced designer and developer of trading platforms, including a platform specifically designed for proprietary multi-model trading for a New York-based equities hedge fund.  He brings with him a unique opportunity to leverage various domains in the quantitative hedge fund marketplace.

Prior to his work in the hedge fund industry, he was VP of development for Bridge Information Systems, where he managed development activities for trading room platforms.
 

   
  Anthony Leotta

Anthony (Tony) Leotta has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, Potsdam New York.  He has held various positions as a software developer until 1999 when he assumed the role as president of Pillar Software.  At Pillar Software, he is responsible for the software architecture, project management, and software engineering.

Some of the projects he has worked on are:  RSS News Ticker, Pillar ITS, Pillar BBuilder, Pillar Call Center,
Pillar Avalon C++ XML Application Server, Sony North America Consumer Electronics Web Site, Avon's E-Commerce Web Site, State Street Bank Money Market Connect Product, Basket Trading System for Wolverine Trading, Nile Game for Simon and Schuster Interactive, over 75 websites projects, dozens of various C++, VB and SQL projects.
Prior to his work with Pillar Software, he was an software engineer for Bridge Information Systems working on the State's Street Bank Foreign Currency Trading System Project called "Global Link".  

   
  Oleg Schatoff

Oleg Schatoff has filled various development roles in the financial community. His work has run the gamut of applications development, middleware design, integration and professional services.

As a Director of Software Development at Reuters, Oleg managed a team responsible for Bridge data feed handlers and BridgeStation Active-X controls: Reuters Instant Messaging (RIM) and Triarch/TIB data-plugins. Oleg's team was first to introduce the rm:// hyperlink into News stories to launch IM converstations.

At Bridge Information systems he managed consulting projects, 3rd party IDB feed handlers for BTRS, and the MarketVision/Telesphere development teams.

Prior to that, he managed various MarketVision teams that designed financial data apps (Athena charting), feedhandlers and MVLink middleware. MVLink featured: fast data distribution (TCP/IP, Multicast, Shared memory), product/data entitlement control, interest-list management, cascaded architecture, 3rd party data feed handlers, data normalization, symbology servers, load-balancing server, optimized merging of real-time and historical data from disparate sources. The MarketVision team was first to leverage MVLink's Client/Server technology to bring Internet FX trading capabilities to State Street Bank, and also first to deliver EJV fixed income data to the Microsoft PC platform.

Oleg Schatoff received both M.E. and B.E. degrees from Cooper Union.