Everyone does their part.

Before Troutwood, Gene spent 17 years working with large pension funds and institutional investors. He is an award-winning author (The Missing Semester) who has keynoted investment and education conferences across the country and spoken in over 500 high school and college classrooms.

He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Allegheny College and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Carnegie Mellon University. Gene is also a board member of CFA Society Pittsburgh, a part-time lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, and Executive in Residence at Penn State Behrend.

He, his wife, four children and chocolate lab live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Joe is a proven leader and experienced entrepreneur with a history of success in building teams and companies around opportunities, establishing product-market fit along with developing and executing the corresponding capital strategies.

For over 20 years, he has helped to shape many emerging companies with a heavy focus on financial services with the insights gained while with institutions such as Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch.

As a co-founder of IRALOGIX, he was instrumental in growing it into a leading provider of modern infrastructure technology into the financial sector. Among other honors, the company was named as a Forbes Best Start-up Employer in America, a WealthTech100 most innovative companies in the world by FinTech Global for 4 consecutive years and has been a top 20% performer on the Inc 5000 list for 3 consecutive years. He is an active advisor to entrepreneurs and has been a regular contributor on related topics to Forbes, Newsweek, NextWeb and Real Clear Politics.

Joe is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where he was a student athlete. He still lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Wendy, their three kids and German Shepherd, Sam.

Yazid, a Fulbright scholar, is an accomplished software engineer who pursued his MS in Information Technology and Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds an Engineering Degree from the Higher National School of Engineers in Tunis. Since starting his professional career in 2012, Yazid has brought his expertise to Siemens, the Max Planck Society, Airbus and Volkswagen.

His technical range spans multiple programming languages, frameworks, cloud and AI, alongside hands-on experience in full stack development, DevOps and software architecture. He enjoys reading and writing about technical topics, and is passionate about sharing what he knows, mentoring newer developers, and driving original solutions inside the team.

Beyond the tech world, Yazid cherishes moments riding motorcycles and practicing martial arts. He lives in beautiful Gifhorn, Germany, with his wife and son.

Rachel is Chief Product Officer at Troutwood, where she brings a depth of experience in financial services and product management. Before joining, Rachel earned her master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a certified Scrum Master and is pursuing her CFP marks with Kaplan.

Rachel has been instrumental in the development of Troutwood’s planning work, particularly on student loan debt and negative net worth, where a user-centric approach gives people a route to goals that look unreachable on paper. Rachel started as an intern at Troutwood during the company’s 2019 launch.

Outside of work, Rachel enjoys spending time outdoors with her two dogs in Huntington, WV, where she resides.

Kyle is a software engineer with experience leading projects and teams through his consulting firm ANTLR Interactive. He has over a decade of experience in regulated environments like healthcare and banking, and is a Sitepoint author. His mobile and Ruby on Rails projects have been featured on TechCrunch, ABC, CBS and USA Today.

He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Nicole, and two cats, Ruby and Jasper. When he is not building products, he likes to eat.

Before joining Troutwood, Mike spent 32 years teaching personal finance and business courses, and was an IB certified business instructor at Corning-Painted Post High School in New York. He was the business department chairperson and the head boys’ basketball and golf coach.

Mike was also Director of Education of the FoolProof Foundation for twenty years, a leading digital financial literacy curriculum, and was instrumental in growing FoolProof into a major educational foundation. He has given over 1,000 keynote, conference and professional development trainings on financial confidence.

Mike lives in Amelia Island, Florida, with his wife Patty. They have two children, who reside in New York State.

Dan Sciulli is a financial services leader with 25 years of experience spanning product, strategy, deposits, finance, banking, credit and client growth across leading banking and financial institutions.

Prior to joining Troutwood as Senior Sales Director, Dan served as Group Product Manager and Vice President at First National Bank of Pennsylvania, where he led consumer deposit product strategy and held management roles in corporate finance. His broader career includes leadership and advisory experience at American Express, National City Bank, PNC Bank, and BNY Mellon.

Dan earned both his undergraduate degree in Finance and MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh and has previously held Series 7, Series 66, and Pennsylvania Life and Health insurance licenses. He is active in civic and community leadership as a Rotary member and an elected Member of Council in Hampton Township.

Outside of work, Dan enjoys spending time with his family in Hampton Township, Pennsylvania. Other interests include real estate investing, running, golf, and anything automotive.

Tommy is Senior Growth Operations Manager at Troutwood, where he builds the reporting, systems, and processes that support the sales, customer success, and growth teams.

Prior to joining Troutwood, Tommy was at Factify, an AI startup headquartered in Israel, where helped to build the outbound sales motion, managed the SDR team, and led U.S. operations. Prior to Factify, he spent a decade at Cardinal Health in finance and corporate strategy.

Tommy holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University, where he was captain of the golf team as a senior, and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in the Pittsburgh area with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Amelia, where they enjoy golf, tennis, and traveling together.

Ashwin is from the sunny, touristy state of Goa, India. He comes with a mix of experiences, having grown up in Bahrain until he was 16 before moving to India for undergraduate school. Before moving to the U.S. to pursue a Master’s in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Ashwin worked at four companies as a full-stack software engineer, spanning startups to India’s leading eCommerce and online fashion companies.

Outside of work he is either cycling around Shadyside, playing tennis with his mates, or shouting at the television when Formula 1 is on (any Alonso or Verstappen fans here?). He also enjoys cooking and experimenting with different cuisines.

Evimar is an experienced software engineer with certifications in AI, machine learning, data science and big data analysis. She has a problem-solving mindset and a passion for data structures and algorithms.

Before working at Troutwood full-time, she spent four years building financial software, and before that was a systems engineer and DBA. She believes in continuous self-improvement, and lives with her husband, three children and several pets.

Kevin graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014 with a degree in Computer Science and recently completed his Master’s of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Before joining Troutwood, Kevin worked in healthcare, developing a speech recognition application used by radiologists worldwide to dictate reports more quickly and accurately.

In his spare time he trains in martial arts (Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu), dances salsa and bachata, and plays guitar.

Alan graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a double major in Computer Science and Pre-Medicine. After time in both the healthcare and tech industries, he returned to higher education at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a Master’s in Software Engineering with a focus in Scalable Systems.

For fun he plays ultimate frisbee, trains Jiu-Jitsu, and programs personal projects. Among Alan’s favorites was a set of Twitter bots he built. One of them went viral, reaching over a hundred thousand followers.