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Teamwork, Not Titles

We don’t believe in silos. We’re more about collaboration. When you work with us, you gain access to all of us. From the top down, and the bottom up.

Have a question? A suggestion? Want a different perspective? Ask any one of us. At any time. When you work with us, you don’t just gain a team. You gain an entire company.

Jonathan S. Orban
Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Orban was a founding Principal and Managing Director of WestPark Capital, Inc., where he specialized in private placements, including institutional 144 and non-arbitrage Regulation D private placements of debt and equity for private and public companies.

Previously, Mr. Orban was with Norcross and Company, Joseph Charles and Associates, and EBI Securities Corporation. Prior to his two years with Norcross and Company, he was an analyst and trader for First London Securities Corporation. His corporate finance experience has focused on generating, analyzing, structuring, and placing middle-market based finance transactions.

Mr. Orban started, built, and managed the private equity groups for both EBI Securities Corporation and Joseph Charles and Associates.

He served in special operations in the military, and holds a B.S. from the University of Phoenix.

Pankaj Chowdhry
President, Chief Information Officer

As President of Third Pillar, Mr. Chowdhry has worked with some of the leading financial institutions in the world on business issues such as credit scoring, complex manual and automated approval functonality, dynamic workflows, lease pricing and an overall approach to Business Rules standardization.  He is also a leading software architect in areas such as software as a service, web services and dynamic document generation.

Mr. Chowdhry has held various management positions in the high tech industry—most recently with Ziff Davis Inc. He has more than a decade of experience in the networking industry and he has consulted with some of the premier IP equipment manufacturers.

Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Chowdhry was CEO of Axonet Technologies, an Ethernet switch manufacturer. Mr Chowdhry has lectured at various industry symposiums on the areas of high availability and security.

Charles Stuard
Managing Director of Sales and Marketing

Charles Stuard has more than 15 years experience in Financial Services and technology as a Consultant and a Corporate Relationship Manager.

Prior to joining Third Pillar, Mr. Stuard managed the U.S. Financial Service practice at Proxicom/ Dimension Data where he oversaw the delivery and account management for Internet based development projects with clients such as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, and GE Capital.

Mr. Stuard also spent four years as a management consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton in the Financial Services Practice and prior to that he was a Vice President of Chemical Bank in New York City with the Middle Market Banking Group. During his career Mr. Stuard has done work for a wide range of institutions including Citibank, American Express, BankBoston, and the Internal Revenue Service.

He holds an MPPM from Yale University, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College and has studied at the London School of Economics.

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