Baton Systems is a financial technology company that builds products for payments and other post trade processes for global capital markets.

“I literally started my career in the basement of a bank processing checks on an NCR machine.”  Learning businesses from the bottom up is a keystone of Mark’s professional journey.  From his training years at Union Bank and pioneering time with TD Securities in the technology and communications sector, through the launch of Ernst & Young’s Capital Services Group and CME Group’s IPO, Fields was always at the frontier of his organizations’ efforts to achieve long-term strategic goals.  Just prior to joining ALP, Mark was CEO of Wickr Inc., a secure messaging and communications platform where he refocused the business from a consumer-targeted messaging platform into an enterprise-worthy secure collaboration platform.  Prior to Wickr, Fields spent 15 years at CME Group as a leader in corporate finance running M&A, business, and strategy development teams. CME executed over $20Bn in M&A transactions during his tenure.  Fields led the team that established the cleared interest rate swap product line which at CME which has cleared $ trillions of trades as a central counterparty.  Fields conceived, founded, and was appointed the Managing Director of CME Ventures, the company’s corporate venture capital group.  Fields headed the investment committee and led the investment team which made minority investments in emerging technology companies in cybersecurity, settlement & payment, computational, AI, and big data software tools. In 2015, Fields was recognized as one of Crain’s Chicago Business Tech 50.  Fields holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.  Fields currently serves as a board member at ALP portfolio companies Baton Systems, Ion Storage Systems, Ascent Technologies, and as an observer at Nabaco, Inc.  Between 2011 and 2021, Fields served on the Board of Trustees at Dominican University, and as a Senior Advisor to Dominican’s Brennan Business School.  Fields also served as an establishing member of the Board of Black Tech Mecca.

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Gilman Louie has over 30 years of national security and investment experience. He served as an early CEO of In-Q-Tel—the pioneering technology investment firm funded by the CIA—from 1999-2006, as an expert to the Defense Innovation Board from 2016-2020, and as a Commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence from 2018-2021.

In addition to being a co-founder and partner at Alsop Louie Partners, he is also a co-founder and CEO of the America’s Frontier Fund.   Gilman is currently the Chairman of the National Intelligence University, Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and of the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He serves on numerous commercial and advisory boards, including Maxar Technologies, Niantic, and Aerospike. He has also served on the Diversity Senior Advisory Panel for the Intelligence Community and as a member of the Technology Advisory Group to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Gilman is the recipient of the CIA Agency Seal Medallion (2004), CIA Director’s Award (2006), Agency Seal Medallion (2006), and Director of National Intelligence Medallion (2008). Gilman received his B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University where he graduated magna cum laude.

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