James Cantwell, partner and principal consultant at Versoft, started in the financial services industry since 1999 at Gamco Investors in Rye, NY. James held numerous positions in their Fund, Wealth Management and Alternative Investment groups and served as AVP of Operations until relocating to Phoenix, Arizona where he currently resides.

After leaving Gamco, James joined AST Trust Company, who provides a broad array of retirement services, where he managed their Operations team of over 30 employees in the servicing of investment firms, TPA’s, RIA’s and family offices. In 2007 James joined Advent Software, Inc. as a consultant where he implemented the Advent suite of products for small startup RIA’s to large asset managers with more than 20 billion under management. James began managing Advent’s Asset Management Group’s consulting organization in the Americas in 2011, while continuing to work directly with investment firms providing consultative services on how best to leverage their technology and resources to achieve efficiency, scalability and lower the costs of servicing their clients.

James joined Versoft in 2015 where he will provide consultative and implementation services centered around his extensive knowledge of FinTech and best practices for firms in the investment management industry.  James holds a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.

Steve Everley, partner and co-founder of Versoft is President in the company and is responsible for the daily activity including vendor engagement, management, finance, sales, and overall growth of the company.

Steve comes to Versoft after over 25 years in the Semi-Conductor industry and over 12 of those years consulting on computer chip design. While consulting he was asked to join Intel where he became a team manager working on very large System On a Chip (SOC) designs. After completion of a mobile chip set, Steve was tasked to help drive new design technologies and derive methodology and work flows for others to design with. This background in team management, budgeting, planning, and running his own consulting company made Steve a great fit for Versoft.

Steve resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, in Portland, Oregon.

Keith Edwards is a recent member to the consulting team, directly supporting client software preparation, implementation, optimization, and training needs.

Keith has returned to the financial sector, after 20 plus years in the technology and system maintenance industry. Keith held various positions at Intel, Crane Aerospace and Electronics, and Starbucks before joining Versoft. While working in the technology sector, he gained experience in system training, process improvement and software implementation. Keith brings his analytical and process experience, as well as his high level of client service and support to the Versoft team.

Keith is based in the scenic Pacific Northwest city of Seattle, Washington.

Matt Braman joined Versoft in 2019.  He is responsible for leading Versoft’s custom solutions and product development initiatives.

Matt has over 15 years of experience in financial services and technology, and more than 10 years in leadership roles managing the development of turn key software solutions.  Before joining Versoft, Matt was Team Lead and Principal Solutions Architect of Global Custom Engineering at Advent Software, where he led a team of six engineers responsible for developing custom software solutions for Advent clients.  Prior to that, Matt began his career at UBS Financial Services and as an independent IT consultant.

Matt received a B.S.M. from the A.B. Freeman School at Tulane University with a double concentration in Finance and Information Services.

Matt currently resides in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.