Aladin T. Abughazaleh
Founder, President & CEO

As founder, president and CEO of LAMP Technologies, Aladin Abughazaleh provides LAMP with experienced leadership and, together with his executive team, creates opportunities for growth through new client acquisition, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and the enhancement of existing client relationships.

Aladin’s expertise in the commodity futures field and understanding of the pressures alternative investment clients face, led him to develop an integrated investment portfolio accounting, monitoring and reporting technology software platform at his former company, ATA Research, a multi-advisor asset allocation business.

Established in 1985, ATA Research managed assets composed of public funds, private pools and offshore funds. Simultaneously, Aladin consulted with other futures industry firms to help develop investment and asset management software products.

Designed to grow ATA’s business by alleviating back and middle office accounting pressures and challenges, the system served as the genesis for LAMP Technologies. A spin-off of ATA Research, LAMP was created to provide backoffice outsourcing services to meet the unique needs of the alternative investments industry. In June 2000, Aladin exited the asset management business to focus entirely on LAMP.

Prior to creating ATA Research, Aladin worked for Dallas-based futures brokers ContiCommodity Services and Smith Barney where his active pursuit of researching and monitoring trading advisor performance and the development of the associated software had its origins. Aladin began his career involved in family business interests exposing him to the commodity futures field.

Aladin is recognized in the industry for his pioneering contributions on performance evaluation analysis and diversification strategies. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and has published articles in industry journals and newsletters.

Barbara Benson
Chief Operating Officer

Barbara Benson serves as LAMP Technologies’ chief operating officer responsible for overseeing all functions that support LAMP operations, client reporting and disaster recovery. In addition, Barbara is involved with late stage new business development, as well as client transition planning and execution. Prior to her current position, Barbara was vice president of product development.

With more than 25 years of experience in futures, options and alternative investments, Barbara has extensive expertise in developing backoffice accounting services for the investment industry. Her expertise includes the design, development, implementation and marketing of backoffice accounting software and services for commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators and fund of funds.

Prior to joining LAMP Technologies, Barbara was president and partner of Trade Management Systems. In addition, she held senior management positions at Quantum Financial Services, USA Trading and GNP Commodities. Barbara was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and served on the special options task force for the Exchange. She also was the second chair for the MFA’s standards and technology committee.

George Dunham
Chief Financial Officer

With more than 20 years of financial and senior management experience, George Dunham holds the position of chief financial officer for LAMP Technologies where he oversees all of LAMP’s accounting and financial reporting, budgeting and client billing. In addition, he plays a role in new client contract negotiations and joint venture partner acquisition.

A certified public accountant since 1984, George joined LAMP with significant backoffice outsourcing expertise. In 1995, George founded Inspire Insurance Solutions, a technology-based outsourcing company that provided backoffice operations for insurance companies. In less than six years, the company went public and grew to more than $100 million in revenue. Prior to his time with Inspire, George held senior-level management positions in the insurance and insurance services industries.

Misty Harris
Senior Vice President of Accounting Services

Misty Harris brings more than 25 years experience in the futures industry to her role as senior vice president of accounting services at LAMP Technologies. She is responsible for the ongoing development of the fund and investment accounting software and systems, and she oversees all alternative funds accounting and portfolio oversight personnel and functions. In that capacity, she is instrumental in communicating essential investment industry-specific information to the LAMP Technologies’ development teams.

Prior to joining LAMP Technologies, Misty was the accounting manager for ATA Research and held branch manager positions at Clayton Brokerage and Stotler & Company.

Kwansoo Kim
Senior Vice President of Product Development

As senior vice president of product development for LAMP Technologies, Kwansoo Kim develops new and enhances existing products. He works closely with LAMP business analysts, management and clients to ensure the technology development teams develop, test and deploy systems that meet specified requirements to better match customer needs. His more than 25 years of experience in the alternative investment industry have brought specialized experience to LAMP Technologies in the areas of exposure and risk management, automated trading systems, option pricing and financial derivatives accounting.

Prior to joining LAMP Technologies, Kwansoo was the founder and CEO of Trade Management Systems and Global Risk Management Corporation. Both firms have provided engineered financial software products to the alternative investment community since 1990. Kwansoo also held management positions at Merrill Lynch and Waldner & Company and served as a consultant to Korean Stock Exchange.