
Meet Our Team
At Deaglo, our people are the engine behind our intelligence. Each team member brings deep expertise, real-world experience, and an unwavering commitment to helping clients navigate complex cross-border financial decisions. Get to know the individuals behind our insights.
Leadership
Leadership that blends market experience, strategic clarity, and operational discipline. Deaglo’s Management Team shapes the firm’s global direction, ensuring we deliver institutional-grade FX advisory supported by robust processes, advanced technology, and a client-first mindset. Each leader brings a distinct blend of international experience, quantitative rigour, and operational execution, the foundation behind Deaglo’s growth and the stability clients count on.


Ashley Groves

Ashley leads Deaglo’s strategic vision and global operations, driving innovative FX solutions that blend institutional-grade experience with advanced technology. With over 15 years of expertise in cross-border transactions and FX markets across Europe and North America, he founded Deaglo to simplify and scale FX advisory for global clients. Prior to founding Deaglo, Ashley served as a director at a leading global FX provider where he managed East Coast operations and consistently achieved double-digit revenue growth. His core strengths include strategic leadership, product and platform innovation (specifically in AI/ML for FX workflows), global expansion, and driving business growth in emerging markets. He specialises in Latin America, Europe and North America, integrating regional insights into global FX strategies. He brings unwavering strategic clarity, operational discipline and forward-looking innovation to every aspect of Deaglo’s leadership.


Matthew Fotheringham

Matthew co-founded Deaglo and heads the firm’s global operations and go-to-market architecture, aligning our growth strategy, platform execution, and institutional client engagement. With extensive experience in cross-border advisory and institutional FX risk management, he has led Deaglo’s development of AI-driven hedging and execution platforms for global investors. His core strengths include operational scalability, platform design, hedge-strategy optimisation and client delivery across multiple jurisdictions. He specialises in EMEA and global fund markets, bringing a deep understanding of institutional workflows, regulatory setups and multi-currency fund structures. He provides steady leadership and long-range vision across Deaglo’s global operations.


Paul Stafford

Paul heads Deaglo’s technology & advisory architecture, combining advanced engineering with FX risk strategy to build the firm’s analytical and execution platforms. With an earlier career in engineering at institutions like NASA’s Space Sciences Division and Hewlett‑Packard’s Microwave Instrument Division, he brings quantitative rigour, programming depth and patent-level innovation to FX hedging frameworks. His core strengths span machine-learning modelling, constrained optimisation, currency-risk simulation and hedge-solution design — shaping Deaglo’s product-technology infrastructure and advisory models. He specialises in global capital markets and currency flows across emerging & developed markets, giving clients both structural insight and technological advantage. He brings a metrical, future-oriented mindset to every engagement and helps ensure Deaglo’s thought-leadership stays at the frontier.


Markus Lampinen

Markus supervises the development of Deaglo’s next-generation analytics and platform architecture, propelling our technology strategy into new markets and client segments. With a deep entrepreneurial background in fintech and data infrastructure, Markus has founded and scaled multiple global ventures, advising institutional clients and building platforms across Europe, the U.S., and Asia. His core strengths include product innovation, data-driven architecture, cross-border platform delivery, and structuring scalable tech operations across emerging and developed markets. He specialises in global capital markets and fintech ecosystems, with particular emphasis on data governance, AI-enabled workflows, and international regulatory frameworks. He brings a forward-looking technical leadership mindset, operational discipline and a global vision to Deaglo’s strategic evolution.
The Team Delivering Precision
Meet the professionals driving performance and reliability.
Sean Foley

Sean leads Deaglo’s global financial operations, combining deep accounting expertise with strategic oversight to safeguard the firm’s financial integrity and support its growth. With more than two decades of experience across public and private sectors—including CFO roles and board advisory mandates—he excels in financial control, risk management, and cross-border capital oversight. His core strengths span financial reporting, audit governance, finance operations optimisation, and multi-jurisdictional structuring. Specialising in global fund and corporate finance environments across North America and Europe, Sean brings a rigorous, clarity-driven approach to every financial engagement at Deaglo.
Nick Del Carlo

At Deaglo, Nick Del Carlo plays a key role in optimizing operational processes, supporting cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring high-quality execution across the firm’s workflow. With a strong focus on efficiency, accuracy, and strategic problem-solving, he contributes to the smooth coordination of all internal projects. His responsibilities span operational oversight, data handling, process improvement, and change management, where he helps guide teams through evolving processes and operational transitions. His structured, detail-driven approach strengthens collaboration between client-facing and technical teams and supports the continued refinement of Deaglo’s operational infrastructure as the company grows.
Chris Joodi

Chris spearheads Deaglo’s global strategy and innovation agenda, aligning our advisory, operations, and technology initiatives to future-forward growth. With an MBA and extensive experience across market intelligence, corporate strategy and fintech partnerships, his background spans building strategic platforms and optimizing treasury-and-FX workflows at scale. His core strengths include strategic visioning, cross-functional leadership, product-and-service innovation, and orchestrating complex go-to-market launches. He brings a global perspective, having worked across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions; Chris combines entrepreneurial agility with institutional discipline to ensure Deaglo stays ahead of evolving currency and risk landscapes.
Edgar Montiel

Edgar serves as a key leader at Deaglo, driving strategic partnerships, growth initiatives, and regional expansion across the Americas. With 10+ years of business development experience across oil & gas, petrochemical, and insurance, he brings a strong commercial focus supported by studies in economics and an MBA. His strengths include strategic business development, cross-border deal execution, and building high-trust relationships that support long-term growth. He specializes in Latin American markets—particularly Mexico—and emerging-economy FX exposures, leveraging deep market insight and a results-driven leadership style to advance Deaglo’s global ambitions.
José Lomeli

Jose leads Deaglo’s business development efforts across Latin America, architecting relationships that bridge multinational clients with strategic FX-risk advisory solutions. With a solid background in cross-border financing and corporate treasury, Jose has partnered with funds and corporates in Mexico and beyond to quantify FX exposure, structure hedged share-classes, and institutionalise sophisticated FX workflows. His core strengths lie in client origination, stakeholder alignment, solution design and regional execution. He specialises in LATAM markets particularly Mexico and Spanish-speaking LatAm—where he leverages his local networks and deep market insight. Jose brings a decisive, growth-driven mindset to his role, ensuring Deaglo’s solutions scale globally with clarity and commercial rigor.
Matheus Zani

Matheus leads Deaglo’s LATAM FX risk management practice, driving strategic hedging solutions and execution frameworks for multinational clients. With a deep consulting background, he has partnered with major corporations and alternative asset managers across Latin America to navigate complex currency, interest rate, and commodity environments. His core strengths include currency-risk modeling, hedging policy design, and derivatives strategy, with a particular specialization in LATAM markets. Since joining Deaglo, he has structured and implemented hedging solutions totalling more than USD 10 billion in notional across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
César Cote

César specializes in FX, interest rate, and commodities derivatives, with more than six years of experience in international financial markets. He brings a quantitative and analytical approach to risk management, with extensive experience in implementing hedges that have generated cost efficiencies and effectively mitigated currency and interest rate risk. At Deaglo, he focuses on the structuring and valuation of OTC instruments, the design of hedging programs, and achieving best execution for strategies. His regional specialization includes Latin America, the United States, and Europe, assessing their financial dynamics to provide clients with precise analysis and actionable insights.
Vinícius Rossini

Vinicius is a trusted advisor at Deaglo, supporting multinational clients in understanding FX exposure, designing hedging strategies and overseeing execution. With a multifaceted background across financial markets, spanning Sales & Trading, Prime Brokerage, and Financial Risk Management, he has assisted Brazilian and global investors and corporates in translating currency volatility into structured, data-driven hedging programmes. He excels in market analysis, client-centric solution design and coordination across treasury, risk and finance functions. His regional focus is on Latin America (particularly Brazil and Spanish-speaking markets), delivering localized insights within global risk frameworks. He brings a clear, analytical approach and strong strategic thinking to every client engagement.
Priyanjali Basnyat

Priyanjali drives Deaglo’s global marketing and product positioning, shaping how financial institutions, funds, and corporates engage with a blend of advisory and technology in risk and treasury solutions. With a strong foundation in digital strategy, and financial storytelling, Priyanjali partners closely with leadership across the US and LATAM to translate financial products and services into clear, scalable narratives. Her core strengths include brand architecture, go-to-market execution, multilingual content strategy, and stakeholder alignment across product, sales, and advisory teams. She specializes in turning sophisticated financial intelligence into accessible experiences,elevating Deaglo’s visibility, accelerating adoption, and ensuring the firm’s solutions scale globally with clarity, precision, and commercial impact.
Deusangela Lemos

Deusangela is a multidisciplinary designer at Deaglo, shaping how the firm communicates complex financial intelligence through clear, modern and high-impact digital experiences. With a background in UX/UI, product design and data-informed strategy, she develops visual systems, institutional materials and campaigns that reinforce Deaglo’s advisory-tech positioning across the US and LATAM. Her work integrates design, cultural insight and performance analysis to craft precise, multilingual communication for English, Portuguese and Spanish audiences. She partners with marketing, growth and advisory teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality assets that elevate brand presence and support commercial outcomes. She brings a refined, detail-driven approach to every initiative.
Karen Dyck

Karen leverages more than 20 years of senior-level business development and client advisory experience to build enduring relationships and drive strategic growth at Deaglo. With a career spanning banking relationships and multi-industry sales leadership, she brings a commercial mindset rooted in deep client empathy and global perspective. Her core strengths include strategy design and execution oversight.Specializing in the North American market, she navigates diverse regulatory and banking environments to deliver tailored corporate management solutions. Karen brings a high-energy, business-first perspective to every client interaction at Deaglo.
Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan brings over 17 years of experience in FX and interest-rate risk management, advising corporates and global institutions across Europe and North America on how to identify, quantify, and mitigate financial exposures. His expertise spans cash-flow risk, balance-sheet volatility, M&A currency dynamics, and yield-enhancement strategies, supported by a strong quantitative foundation in modeling, scenario analysis, and market diagnostics. Known for his analytical rigor, he has built and implemented hedging frameworks that strengthen earnings stability, improve liquidity resilience, and support long-term financial decision-making—bringing a precise, data-driven approach to every client engagement.
