Our Team

Creating the Next Generation of Credit Products and Technologies

Executive Directors

Patrick Wood

Chief Executive Officer

Patrick is a successful capital markets veteran with a career spanning over 25 years in Canada and the United States. Pat’s career has included fixed income asset management, structured product creation, and advisory roles at Canadian-owned broker-dealer Midland Walwyn, Vice President roles at both...

BMO Nesbitt Burns and CIBC World Markets, and Managing Director role at Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon. More recently Pat founded Tormont Group, a US and Canada-based Advisory and Merchant Bank. Since 2012 Tormont Group has provided capital and supported US and Canadian companies on IPOs, M&A, institutional investor development, and successful market penetration strategy. Patrick is the President and CEO of DelphX Capital Markets (DELX-TSXv). Through its proprietary tools and technology, DelphX is advancing its revolutionary fixed-income solution through the global bond market segment

Bill Hahn

Chief Financial Officer

Bill has over 18 years of experience in financial leadership, capital markets, financial accounting, and performance management across multiple sectors. Bill has held progressively senior financial positions within several public companies including CFO roles with the Hempshire Group Inc., Big Rock Brewery Inc., and Perpetual Energy Inc. Bill is a CPA, CA, and holds Masters of Professional Accounting and Bachelor of Commerce degrees.

Bill has over 18 years of experience in financial leadership, capital markets, financial accounting, and performance management across multiple sectors. Bill has held progressively senior financial positions within several public companies including CFO roles with the Hempshire Group Inc., Big Rock Brewery Inc., and Perpetual Energy Inc. Bill is a CPA, CA, and holds Masters of Professional Accounting and Bachelor of Commerce degrees.

Gordon Jardin

Chief Actuary and Risk Officer

Gordon is a Fellow and past board member of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

He has been Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of reinsurance companies (Generali USA, PartnerRe Life/Winterthur Re), Vice President and General Manager, Reinsurance for Sun Life Canada and, more recently, the Chief Executive Officer of a residential mortgage acquisition and servicing company, Franklin Credit Management Corporation. Gordon’s extensive experience in developing and operating complex analytical systems is key to the development of the DelphX platform.

George Wentworth

Operations Director

George has more than 20 years of experience in driving operational processes to align with company culture and growth strategies. His experience includes handling business operations for multiple companies, including start-ups as well as more established organizations.

George’s non-traditional path to business operations has involved studying farm sciences in Brazil and earning a Fine Arts degree at the University of Massachusetts, as well as working in the food industry, in real estate, commercial and residential construction, management consulting, and technology services. By the time he was 30, George had already worked in, founded, and sold a few startups.

He believes this path proves that some business fundamentals are true for companies of any size or industry. The best recipe for success requires maintaining a strong company culture, streamlining operational systems, and providing excellent communication and customer service. These are the fundamentals; everything else is negotiable.

Non-Executive Directors

Salim Hasham

Non-Executive Director

Salim Hasham is currently a Director and Global Head of Business Transformation Partnerships at Google. A key part of his role at Google is to help couple the thinking of the world's best strategy firms with Google's engineering talent to transform visionary concepts into finished products and applications.

Prior to Google, he had nearly 20 years of experience involved in a wide range of financial services projects, including nine years as a Partner at McKinsey & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a leader in strategy, organizational design, operations and risk management, as well as a recognized authority on innovative disruption and accelerated growth. He has particular expertise in driving growth while managing cyber security/financial crime and crisis management. As a recognized industry expert, he is frequently asked to provide perspective to organizations such as the UN, OECD, and industry/regulatory bodies, keynotes to client executives and white papers for governmental agencies. His published commentary can be read on the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey on Technology, McKinsey on Risk and other industry/media outlets.

Steven Mannik

Non-Executive Director

Steven is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Prior to his retirement in 2016, he served as President and CEO of General Re Life Corporation, an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway, where he headed the group’s Decision Analytics (Big Data / Predictive Modelling) initiative.

Prior to joining Gen Re, Steven was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Manulife Reinsurance with responsibility for all aspects of Manulife’s reinsurance business worldwide. In 2001, he was key to Manulife’s acquisition of 1.5 million in-force policies from Daihyaku Mutual of Japan and the significant expansion of Manulife’s Japanese operations. Prior to joining Manulife, Steven was a Principal of Towers Perrin responsible for global client relationships and senior pension fund consulting. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, where he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics.

Product Specialists

Jeff Nabi

Managing Director and head of Credit Product Sales

Jeff has more than 30 years of experience structuring deals, driving business development, mitigating risk, and supporting new products in the fixed income markets. Prior to joining DelphX, He was the Head of Capital Markets and Securitization at Imperial Fund.

Mr. Nabi was also the CFO and Head of Capital Markets of Funding U, a FinTech based student loan originator. He joined Funding U after working more than eight years at Cantor Fitzgerald in their Debt Capital Markets Division (Mortgage and Asset Backed Finance – SPG Group). Prior to joining Cantor, Mr. Nabi was a Senior Managing Director and Group Head of Assured Guaranty Corporation’s Consumer and Mortgage Backed Securitization Group. He led a team responsible for underwriting more than $20 billion of securitization for RMBS, ABS, CMBS, and student loans over a two-year period. He was a key member of their management team and was appointed to the firm’s portfolio risk management committee. Mr. Nabi previously spent more than 10 years at Ambac Assurance Corporation as Managing Director and Group Head of their consumer and mortgage backed securities business. He also held various positions at Financial Security Assurance, Deloitte & Touche, and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Nabi received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Jonathan Deeter

Credit Product Specialist

Jonathan has a strong background in the financial technology industry and extensive experience with business development, revenue growth, enhancing operational efficiencies, and implementing reporting metrics in the financial services industry.

His previous work as a Product Specialist and as Head of Business Development within the fintech space gives him the unique insight into capital markets, and the keys to growth as DelphX enters its next phase. Having helped scale a broad range of financial service businesses and products, with an acute understanding of the market, Jonathan brings a specialized knowledge base to his role as Director of Credit Product Sales at DelphX. Jonathan received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Connecticut College.