GreenShoots is a boutique technology and operational consulting firm focused on providing operational solutions to financial services companies, particularly alternative investments firms and hedge funds. The firm develops customized applications, databases, and processes to help clients streamline operations and improve decision making. GreenShoots takes a proactive approach, working closely with clients to identify inefficient processes that can be improved through automation and integration. The firm prides itself on developing scalable and documented solutions to generate long-term operational benefits for its clients.
3. The beginnings for these type of ventures are always difficult and its easy to fall under the temptation to purchase software packages off the shelve, only to realise that, in the end, are to complicated and costly to maintain.
4. Another way is to use traditional systems that everybody feels comfortable using, like Excel to store data and reporting or Outlook to distribute information and to communicate. Although these apps are very good, they are not designed to support the exponential needs of a Fund or Management Company and they very difficult to escalate.
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6. Carlos hold a 2:1 BSc Financial Economics by Birkbeck College, University of London.
7. Worked at Merrill Lynch from 2001, were he held various responsibilities in areas like Financial Controlling, Prime Brokerage and Futures and Options. He also participated in various projects involving systems decommissioning, migrations and process flow reengineering.
8. In 2004, he moved to Madrid to work for Vega Asset Management in the Middle Office and Valuations area where he had the opportunity to design and develop new and innovative Operational Risk management tools and to redesign and optimise various work flows. Among other attributions, he became the Pricing Manager for the Vega Funds.
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10. Trough our Operational Framework, we provide our clients with tools capable of streamline processes, improve communication, enhance data quality and accuracy, increase the level of workflow security and eliminate or minimise manual data input.
11. As well as our core business, we also offer the following services:
18. We identify and prioritise the most inefficient processes whichcanbe improved through automatization and integration.
19. We develop small software modules which attend the more urgent needs. These developments are fully scalable and accommodate to potential future growth as we always have present our target of achieving long term Operational Alpha generation.
20. All developments are thoroughly documented and as graphic as possible, in order to acommodate all kinds of public.
21. Our code follows standard rules which makes it easily transferrable.
22. All modules are thoroughly tested and client sign off is always required.