Bendigo Partners

Jarrett Lilien founded Bendigo Partners in 2008 to provide operational expertise in financial services. He co-founded and served as CEO of TIR Securities, which was acquired by E*TRADE Financial, where he later became President and Chief Operating Officer and served as acting CEO from November 2007 to March 2008. He also served as interim CEO of Investment Technology Group (ITG), and has worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and New York.

Morgan Dunbar is a FinTech executive with over twenty years of experience as an operator, investor, and advisor. He started his career at TIR Securities, an institutional stock broker, where he built BECS, an early cross-border Transaction Cost Analysis product; after TIR's acquisition by E*Trade, he and colleagues spun out BECS and grew it until its 2004 acquisition by Citigroup, where he later spent five years, most recently as Head of Electronic Execution for Japanese Equities in Tokyo. At Bendigo he develops investment strategies, sources deal flow, conducts due diligence, structures transactions, and manages portfolio companies, and also advises financial services firms.

Peter de Florio has around 10 years of experience in finance and eCommerce product management and marketing. At Bendigo Partners he evaluates investment opportunities and helps manage portfolio companies, while also serving as Head of Product Management at Kapitall and an SVP at CrowdClear. He previously led teams in marketing, product, design, and technology at E*TRADE Financial and Barnes & Noble, and holds a BS in Corporate and Portfolio Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Richard Taylor has spent 40 years in financial services, focused mainly on operations. He held operations roles at Sheppards and Chase, Vickers da Costa, Citibank/Citicorp, and Morgan Stanley International, where he ran London settlements operations. He later served as COO of TIR Securities and, following its acquisition by E*TRADE, became Managing Director and Global Head of Operations at E*TRADE.