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Eze Castle Software, Inc. ("Eze Castle"), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is a software products company providing solutions to the investment management market. Founded in 1995 by CEO Sean McLaughlin, Eze Castle is now one of the largest trade order management firms in the financial industry, with offices in Boston, New York, Stamford, San Francisco and London. Eze Castle markets, develops, and supports Traders Console (TC), a Windows NT, trade-order management system used by over 190 firms in the US and in Europe. TC is a 32 bit, networked software application for the management of "buy" side trading desks, providing back office and portfolio management connectivity. The product interfaces with numerous back office accounting systems, in addition to the OASYS allocation delivery system. TC allows money managers to analyze and rebalance portfolios, and create fully allocated orders that can be electronically communicated to the trader. It provides the trader with state-of-the-art tools for managing all aspects of the execution process. The TC blotter is architected for trading in the new world of multiple execution deadlines. The time is fast approaching when real-time trade order management will be a necessity! TC is part of a growing family of products and services specifically designed for the investment industry from Eze Castle. The company's other products include: Eze-Connect, the embedded FIX trading component in TC providing electronic trading functionality; Tradewinds, an ASP service handling secure data transfers to and from third party systems; and Watchtower, Eze Castle's state-of-the-art, stand-alone compliance application providing a corporate-wide solution to meet client compliance needs. TC is a scalable, integratable and real-time solution, integrating directly with the above products to provide our clients with the connectivity necessary to automate trading processes. The company also provides "Virtual Chief Technology Officer" services, including contract consulting, integration and custom programming for the Microsoft Windows and Windows NT environments. Eze Castle Software, Inc. has achieved some 2,020% growth in the past five years. Inc Magazine recently recognized this accomplishment by naming Eze Castle number 81 in their ranking of the top 500 fastest-growing companies nationwide. The company was also listed on Deloitte & Touche's 2000 "Fast 50" - a ranking of New England's fastest-growing technology companies - and received the 2001 Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence award. Eze Castle currently has 125 employees, and in 2002, had a gross annual income of $11.2 million. |