Meet the team

Tom Callahan is the Chief Executive Officer and Manager of the board of managers of Nasdaq Private Market. Tom has 30 years of leadership experience within the financial services industry. Prior to Nasdaq Private Market, he served as the Head of Global Cash Management and a member of the Global Operating Committee at BlackRock, where he spent nearly nine years. In his role with BlackRock, Tom led the transformation of the firm’s global cash management platform, a $700 billion business focused on delivering liquidity and balance sheet solutions to many of the world’s largest public and private corporations. During his tenure, assets under management in his division grew by over $500 billion.

Previously, Tom served as the Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Liffe U.S., the U.S. futures exchange of NYSE Euronext, where he spent five years. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 15 years at Merrill Lynch, where he held various leadership positions in both New York and London. Tom earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

James Brooks is the Chief Strategy Officer at Nasdaq Private Market. He has more than 25 years of experience growing businesses and developing commercial strategies to bring innovative, disruptive products to market. Throughout his career, James has partnered closely with customers and cross-functional teams—spanning technology, operations, compliance, and product—to design and continuously enhance market-leading solutions. Prior to joining NPM, he served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Product Officer at Forge Global, where he focused on product innovation, transparency, and removing barriers to investing in private companies. Before that, James was Chief Operating Officer of ICE Data Services, where he led efforts to expand recurring revenue by delivering pricing, analytics, index, and reference data solutions supporting investment, trading, and risk management across global asset classes. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at NYSE/ICE, overseeing multiple businesses including the NYSE and ICE futures data businesses, the reference data business, and the ICE Global Network. James also served as Head of Equities at The NASDAQ Stock Market and began his career at the Law and Economics Consulting Group. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Mike Buono is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Shares trading at Nasdaq Private Market. Prior to NPM, Mike spent 5+ years at EquityZen where he helped build the institutional trading desk. Mike started his career as an analyst at UBS and holds a BS in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University.

Rotem David is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Nasdaq Private Market (NPM). Rotem leads NPM’s product and technology divisions worldwide. He is responsible for the company’s product strategy and implementation, overseeing technology infrastructure, engineering, information security and development teams. He has spent more than 10 years building out NPM’s portfolio of products which offer liquidity across various transaction types. Prior to NPM, Rotem held lead engineering roles at SecondMarket and Nasdaq, Inc.

Earlier in his career, Rotem served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a Commander in a Search and Rescue unit. He earned his BS in computer science from Columbia University.  

Parul Dubey is Head of Asset Management at Nasdaq Private Market, responsible for leading NPM’s electronic trading business and private client solutions. Parul helps deploy a diversified portfolio of secondary products including marketplace, SPVs, and company-organized secondary offerings for millions of private company employees and accredited investors. Since joining NPM in 2019, she has held several key roles within the Capital Markets team, where she helped build the business from inception and served an instrumental role in launching SecondMarket. Parul also established and led the Private Client Group, which caters to high-net-worth individuals, family offices and wealth advisors.

Prior to NPM, she worked at Wellington Management, where she partnered with global relationship teams and bank distributors to support distribution for a diversified private equity fund and a healthcare private fund. Parul also held investment roles at a buyout firm and served on the Board of Steven Feller P.E. (a portfolio company). She started her career at PIMCO, servicing managed separate accounts for Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, central banks, endowments and family offices. Parul earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Msc in Management from London Business School. She completed her undergraduate studies in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.

Griff Garrabrant is Head of Business Operations at Nasdaq Private Market, responsible for driving operational efficiency and strategic execution across the organization. Griff has been with NPM since 2020 and has played a central role in building and scaling the NPM Transfer and Settlement product, which he continues to oversee. Prior to Nasdaq Private Market, Griff spent 5+ years at LendingClub, where he supported the launch of LCX, a first-of-its-kind electronic loan transaction platform. He earned his BS in Finance from California State University, Chico.

Amanda Gold is Chief of Staff and Chief People Officer at Nasdaq Private Market. She is responsible for partnering with the leadership team to drive cross-functional alignment and operational efficiency to keep the company moving decisively toward its ambitious strategic goals. Amanda also leads the people strategy to attract, develop, and retain top talent, while ensuring the culture remains vibrant, inclusive, and aligned with NPM’s core mission. She joined NPM as Chief Marketing Officer in 2022, where she raised the corporate profile of the NPM brand, led marketing and communications initiatives across all products, partnerships, and funding rounds, and elevated the company’s digital platforms worldwide. Amanda has more than 20 years of industry experience. Prior to NPM, she was a Director and the Head of Corporate Communications at BTIG, where she spent seven years leading the marketing and corporate communications function for the firm globally, overseeing all public relations, branding, marketing strategy and communications. Amanda was also a member of the firm’s Global Operating Committee. Prior to BTIG, she was a Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Convergex, an affiliate of Bank of New York Mellon, where she spent nearly a decade. Amanda began her career in the Advertising and Account Services division of LEADERS magazine. She earned a BA in government from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Kevin Gsell is a Managing Director and the Head of Company Solutions at Nasdaq Private Market (NPM). Kevin leads the business development efforts around creating comprehensive liquidity and workstation solutions for private companies including tenders, auctions, Transfer and Settlement, and capital introduction from Series A through exit. He is a seasoned sales professional with 20+ years of experience.

Prior to NPM, Kevin was the Head of Legal Solutions and Partnerships at Nasdaq, Inc., where he spent nearly seven years. Previously, he was a Sales Director at SecondMarket, Inc. Earlier in his career, Kevin held several sales roles at CSC, MetLife, AETEA Information Technology, and Enterprise. He earned his undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon College.

Andrew Kroculick is Chief Operating Officer at Nasdaq Private Market, responsible for driving operational excellence, ensuring strategic alignment, and helping turn strategy into action across the organization. Andrew has been with NPM since 2017, has led several high-profile, cross-functional business initiatives, and was instrumental in helping to lead the company’s spinout to an independent private company from Nasdaq in 2021. Since 2022, he has led the Business Operations and Account Management teams as Head of Business Operations and Client Experience, where he also played a central role in building and scaling the NPM Transfer and Settlement and Wealth Connect products, which he continues to oversee. Prior to Nasdaq Private Market, he was a Senior Director in corporate strategy at Nasdaq, Inc. Previously, Andrew was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP. He earned his undergraduate degree from George Washington University and his MBA from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. 

René Paula is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer at Nasdaq Private Market, responsible for all legal affairs and guidance on corporate, commercial, and securities matters, as well as financial strategy, planning, and operations. As a seasoned attorney, entrepreneur, and CPA, René has over two decades of experience across global M&A, IPOs, and venture investments including exits to Accenture and a Nasdaq IPO. He has led multidisciplinary teams at Audible, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Vaxxinity, where he managed complex global transactions, international growth, and innovation across 25+ countries. Earlier in his career, René was a corporate attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a consultant at Deloitte & Touche. Throughout his career, he has executed dozens of venture capital investments, over two dozen capital raising transactions in the public markets, and more than two dozen M&A transactions in private markets. René earned his undergraduate degree from New York University and his JD from Columbia Law School.

Chris Setaro is the Chief Compliance and Regulatory Officer of Nasdaq Private Market (NPM). Prior to joining NPM, he was a Senior Vice President and the Head of Global Risk at Forge Global Inc. Previously, Chris was the Global Chief Compliance Officer of SharesPost, Inc. and Chief Compliance Officer for its broker-dealer subsidiary SharesPost Financial Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was a Vice President at Nasdaq, Inc. serving as the Chief Compliance Officer at Nasdaq Execution Services, Nasdaq Capital Markets Advisory, Execution Access, and NPM Securities, all of which were Nasdaq’s U.S. broker-dealer subsidiaries, at the time, and focused on equities and options routing, U.S. Treasury securities trading, private company liquidity programs and issuer advisory services. He also oversaw the compliance staff for Nasdaq’s registered investment advisor.

Additionally, Chris held a variety of compliance roles at Instinet Incorporated including Chief Compliance Officer for Instinet, LLC, where he spent nearly 15 years. He earned his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University.

Bill Spoor, CFA, is Head of Capital Solutions at Nasdaq Private Market. Prior to NPM, Bill spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in Leveraged Finance, where he led the High-Yield Bond Sales effort for asset managers. Previously, he was a Managing Director within Fixed Income Sales and Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he held several roles in the Global Markets and Investment Banking divisions for 12 years. Bill is also the Founder of Underground Farms, LLC, which was acquired in December 2023, and Happy Valley Uganda, Inc. He earned an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Northwestern University. Bill is also a CFA charterholder.

Samantha Tortora is the Chief Growth and Chief Marketing Officer at Nasdaq Private Market, responsible for guiding strategy, overseeing growth across the business, and evolving and amplifying the brand across channels. Samantha has 15 years of experience in strategic positioning, value creation, and stakeholder engagement. Prior to Nasdaq Private  Market, she advised founders and CEOs across industries on strategy, brand, and investor messaging, while helping professionalize startups in their transitions to later-stage companies. Ms. Tortora spent 13 years at BlackRock, where she built and led the Investor Relations and Corporate Sustainability functions, supporting a $100+ billion market cap increase, and later served as Global Head of Aladdin Climate. She holds her undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University.