Drew Eginton

Drew Eginton (deginton@dullesopen.com) is the publisher of DullesOpen.com and the founder and principal shareholder of Dulles Research LLC, its owner.

Dulles Research (www.dullesresearch.com) and DullesOpen.com represent the latest in a series of innovative software, financial, and technological ventures Drew has started and/or led as CEO and/or president. Each was successfully developed and sold, three of them to public companies. They include:

• The first external email system for U.S. Congressional communications;
• A dominant asset-liability management and arbitrage pricing software company that achieved 85% market share in the U.S. life insurance vertical, plus foreign market licensees in Europe and Japan prior to sale;
• A $1.3 billion (measured by assets) life insurance company where, with Fred Dawson, he managed the restructuring, turnaround, and sale; and,
• Marketswitch Corporation, the first high-scale optimization software company for global 500 B2C corporations. Marketswitch achieved 30% operating margins in the depths of the post-9/11 software industry depression, licensed 8 of the top 10 U.S. credit card companies, 4 of the top 5 telecommunications companies, and managed licensees across North America, in Japan, and elsewhere. Sold to Experian in 2004.

Drew started Dulles Research LLC in 2005 to address high-scale problems in the detection, identification and optimal control of illicit networks. Dulles Research sustains proprietary research in network analysis and executes its numerical solutions in robust enterprise software applications. Dulles Research provides this analytical technology to the U.S. intelligence, defense and law enforcement communities, those of allied nations, and the commercial financial services vertical. The first of several products to be included in the Dulles Research Lucid Threat Management System™ is Lucid Identify™, available now.

Drew started his first software company in 1983. He is a high honors graduate of Oberlin College.

Yuri Galperin, Chief Technology Officer

Yuri Galperin is internationally known for his work in high-scale decision support enterprise software. Since 1993 Yuri has led teams and built technical organizations to accomplish some of the more daunting tasks in quantitative analysis.

Beginning in 1993, Yuri led the development staff building one of the world’s first third-party arbitrage pricing engines for sell-side implementation, at Chalke Inc. and its successor in ownership, SSNC Technologies, Inc. While with Chalke and SSNC Yuri also developed a buy-side multi-factor model of macroeconomic risk management, and assisted its sale into the U.S. life insurance industry.

In 1997 Yuri rejoined Drew Eginton as co-founder of Marketswitch Corporation, where he was CTO. At Marketswitch Yuri managed technical teams building and implementing the first high-scale optimization platform for and marketing and risk management. He was also central in the development of Marketswitch Japan K.K., jointly owned with TransCosmos, and OptiFI, a company developed and owned by Fair Isaac and Marketswitch.

Upon Marketswitch’s sale to Experian in 2004, Yuri became SVP, Global R&D for Experian, while continuing to manage the Marketswitch technical team.

During his years in the U.S. Yuri has authored four patents.

Yuri’s academic work in aerospace control systems at the Moscow Aviation Institute led him to develop several software-based solutions for Soviet and Russian classified programs. His Ph.D work is classified.

Pavel Ganelin. Vice President, Software Development

Pavel Ganelin offers DullesOpen.com and Dulles Research LLC over 20 years of quantitative programming and software development management experience.

Pavel is the original architect of the Carolina project.

Previously Pavel has consulted for NASDAQ and Fannie Mae. For over 10 years he was Vice President, Software Development for Marketswitch Corporation and its successor in ownership, Experian.

Pavel holds the M.S. in Chemistry from Moscow State University, and an M.S. in Quantum Chemistry from Catholic University, where he also completed his required course work for the Ph.D.