Our Board of Directors

President, Madelyn Lando
Madelyn Lando serves as President on the board of Trade It Forward Foundation.

Madelyn Lando has extensive experience in equity finance with a career spanning over 25 years. She has held senior positions at renowned firms on Wall Street including Bear Stearns, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo. In her last role, at Wells Fargo, she was the Managing Director, head of Securities lending demand team. She worked closely with the firm’s asset managers to provide direct support for all facets of their securities lending needs.  She also spearheaded the firm’s fully paid lending program.  Prior to Wells Fargo, Madelyn was an Executive Director with JPMorgan providing securities lending coverage for asset managers ranging from start-ups to $30+ billion AUM.  She also led the securities lending desk at Bear Stearns. Madelyn holds a BS in Marketing and Finance from St. John’s University.

Madelyn has the following industry license: Series 7, 24 63 & 99.

Vice President, Ralph Consoli
Ralph is Head of Business Development for Velocity Clearing. He is responsible for leading all aspects of Velocity’s revenue growth and business development. Prior to Velocity, Ralph was Head of Equity Prime Brokerage and Correspondent Clearing Sales at ICBC Financial Services LLC, where he was overseeing the Sales and Account Management teams across Prime Brokerage and Clearing Services in the NY office. Prior to joining ICBC, Ralph was VP of Relationship Management and Business Development for National Accounts at Pershing LLC in Jersey City for their broker dealer division. Ralph also worked at UBS AG in Stamford, CT and managed their Relationship Management Team for the Platinum Hedge Fund Clients Group in the OTC Credit and Rates Division. Prior to this, Ralph worked in a variety of operation, technology, and fixed income sales roles at Barclays Capital in New York.

Vice President & Head of Marketing, Nick Lewis

Treasurer/Director Matteo Amato
Matteo Amato serves as treasurer on the board of Trade It Forward Foundation.

He currently serves as CFO of Velocity Capital LLC and has been practicing accounting for over twenty years. Matteo has held various accounting roles over numerous broker deals and he is ready to use these skills for the benefit of the Trade It Forward Foundation.