Tom Egan
Chief Technology Officer of VAGM Group and companies.
Mr. Egan is the driving force behind the technical architecture at VAGM. His technical vision ensures an elegant design with scalability, resilience and security as core principles of Solas 1. Providing both the technical and business aspects the firm needs to grow and succeed in the fast-paced world of technology.
Mr.Tom Egan’s career in front office trading systems ranges over twenty years in diverse business lines within banks such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. Tom has also held positions such as, CTO at a market surveillance technology firm, CTO at a FinTech for broking firm, CTO and director of technology for a virtual trading floors/simulations and CTO at a private group of acquisition-based companies.
Tom also designed and architected the Virtual Trading Floor in the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in 2007, a post graduate experiential teaching facility, encompassing the actual features, software and functionality of a live trading floor.