Strategic IS & Cloud Programs Director
Remy FALCO
Executive Leadership Team Member | Mergers & Acquisitions | Global SaaS & Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Executive Leadership & Technology Experience
smartTrade Technologies
Aix-en-Provence, France & New York, USA | www.smart-trade.net
smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading and payments platforms, helping banks, brokers, buy side institutions, and corporates worldwide to achieve business growth through our cost-efficient, technologically advanced secure private SaaS end-to-end solutions.
Strategic IS and Cloud Programs Director
Member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) Houston, TX
Jan 2025 – Present
- M&A Integration & Tactical Consolidation: Drive the post-acquisition IT strategy, technical due diligence, and consolidation of newly acquired systems to ensure rapid synergy capture, seamless transition, and minimized operating risks.
- Strategic IS Management: Lead multi-region programs coordinating corporate systems and security initiatives (SOC 2 compliance frameworks), aligning corporate IT assets with scalable executive targets.
- Global Cloud Governance: Oversee public and private cloud program expansion strategies, managing capital allocations and strategic relationships with major public/private vendors to optimize infrastructure agility.
Global Head of Infrastructure
Member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) Houston, TX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
- Executive Board Leadership & Financial Ownership: Contributed directly to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), owning absolute financial accountability for a multi-million dollar global infrastructure budget, aligning technology spending with corporate financial targets.
- Engineering Team Building: Built, structured, and mentored a world-class global systems, network, and database engineering organization, fostering a highly collaborative culture of continuous optimization.
- Tier-1 Availability: Maintained a 99.999% uptime benchmark for mission-critical liquidity platforms serving Tier-1 global investment banks.
Global Head of Infrastructure
Global Team Scale & High-Availability New York, NY
Apr 2012 – Dec 2022
- International Expansion & Capacity Scaling: Directed the massive scale-up of corporate and production datacenters across North America, Europe, and Asia to process exponential transaction volumes.
- Redundancy & Disaster Recovery: Structured geo-redundant architectures, continuous multi-site database replication, active-active failover algorithms, and follow-the-sun on-call procedures to eliminate single points of failure.
- Infrastructure Operations Team: Built the company's first structured, multi-regional infrastructure operations team, eliminating key-person dependencies and modernizing daily operations.
SaaS Systems Engineer
SaaS Transition & Multi-Tenant Architecture Aix-en-Provence, France
Jan 2011 – Mar 2012
- The Core SaaS Pivot: Architected and built smartTrade's first-ever SaaS infrastructure, driving the operational pivot that transformed the company from a traditional on-premise software editor to a high-margin SaaS enterprise.
- Secure Multitenancy: Engineered isolated, secure virtualization frameworks to host multi-client banking setups on unified physical hosts with robust compute allocation.
Corporate IT Engineer
Business Continuity & Systems Management Aix-en-Provence, France
Dec 2009 – Dec 2010
- First Business Continuity Plan (BCP): Researched, drafted, and engineered smartTrade's first Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan, introducing offsite backups, cold-standby platforms, and corporate-wide system restoration protocols.
- Infrastructure Operations: Oversaw secure corporate routing, LDAP authentication directory configurations, and network permissions management for 100+ internal developers.
IT Infrastructure Intern
Foundation Hardware Management & Support Aix-en-Provence, France
Jun 2009 – Nov 2009
- Resilient Mail Architecture: Designed and built a highly resilient, fault-tolerant Microsoft Exchange messaging infrastructure to establish uninterrupted internal and external communications.
- Support Operations: Provided core hardware maintenance and support for a hybrid server footprint comprised of 60 machines and 40 development servers.
Business Operations Experience
B2B Sales Coordinator & Trainer
Franchised Shop (Peggy Sage Brand) | France
2004 – 2006
Peggy Sage is a high-profile cosmetics brand specializing in professional salon supplies.
- Managed business-to-business (B2B) client relations, sales pipeline, and professional training workshops inside an agile 7-person operations team generating €300,000+ in annual revenue.
- Dramatically increased customer retention rates and satisfaction by introducing digital remote-selling protocols and streamlined interior follow-up systems.