Symphony Celebrates 10 Years. Read thoughts from our CEO.
About Symphony

Trusted connectivity for global finance

Symphony is a communication and markets technology company powered by interconnected platforms: messaging, voice, directory and analytics.

Our modular technology - built for global finance - enables over 1,000 institutions to achieve data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions.

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Our story

From our founding in 2014 to our industry-leading position today, Symphony has consistently innovated to meet the evolving needs of financial services firms. We have expanded our offerings through strategic acquisitions and organic growth, establishing ourselves as a trusted partner for secure communication, collaboration, and data-driven insights.

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2014
Symphony was founded by a consortium of Wall Street firms, with a focus on building a secure chat platform for cross-firm communication.
2014
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2015
$100M series B funding round led by Google
2015
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2018
Engineering and architecture grew to support the firm’s fundamental commitment to the security and stability of its platforms.
2018
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2020
Brad Levy joined company, became CEO the following year. Amid global lockdown and outsized growth of off-channel communication, Symphony launched Federation for compliance enabling communication on consumer messaging channels.
2020
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2021
Symphony acquired Cloud9 and StreetLinx, adding significant voice expertise and doubling down on our existing directory of global markets professionals.
2021
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2022
Symphony acquired Amenity Analytics, forming the basis for our Analytics platform and its AI & NLP capabilities.
2022
2024
Celebrating 10 years of financial services innovation, Symphony offers four interconnected platforms: messaging, voice, directory and analytics.
2024

Life at Symphony

Symphony’s company and culture are a lot like our platforms. They’re interconnected; they grow and thrive together for the greater good of our employees, customers, partners and the broader financial community.

  • Last night was full of football fun for some of our London Syms ⚽
  • Syms team dinner in Paris!
  • For Breast Cancer Awareness month we all #wearpink 🎀
  • Last week Symphony hosted @streetwisepartners and its participants in the NYC office for a FinTech Panel and networking event. Thank you to the Syms who participated and StreetWise Partners for joining us!
  • Our HK team enjoyed a pleasant Autumn dinner together 🥂
  • The rainy Belfast sky cleared to make way for sunshine and smiles while the HR team was in town for their offsite last week 🌞
  • The NY CPO org got their shuffleboard skills out last week in a fun team outing!
  • Symphony's operating leadership all together in Belfast, what a team!
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Last night was full of football fun for some of our London Syms ⚽
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Last night was full of football fun for some of our London Syms ⚽
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Syms team dinner in Paris!
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Syms team dinner in Paris!
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For Breast Cancer Awareness month we all #wearpink 🎀
For Breast Cancer Awareness month we all #wearpink 🎀
For Breast Cancer Awareness month we all #wearpink 🎀
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For Breast Cancer Awareness month we all #wearpink 🎀
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Last week Symphony hosted @streetwisepartners and its participants in the NYC office for a FinTech Panel and networking event. Thank you to the Syms who participated and StreetWise Partners for joining us!
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Last week Symphony hosted @streetwisepartners and its participants in the NYC office for a FinTech Panel and networking event. Thank you to the Syms who participated and StreetWise Partners for joining us!
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Our HK team enjoyed a pleasant Autumn dinner together 🥂
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Our HK team enjoyed a pleasant Autumn dinner together 🥂
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The rainy Belfast sky cleared to make way for sunshine and smiles while the HR team was in town for their offsite last week 🌞
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The rainy Belfast sky cleared to make way for sunshine and smiles while the HR team was in town for their offsite last week 🌞
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The NY CPO org got their shuffleboard skills out last week in a fun team outing!
The NY CPO org got their shuffleboard skills out last week in a fun team outing!
The NY CPO org got their shuffleboard skills out last week in a fun team outing!
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The NY CPO org got their shuffleboard skills out last week in a fun team outing!
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Symphony's operating leadership all together in Belfast, what a team!
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Symphony's operating leadership all together in Belfast, what a team!
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Job opportunities at Symphony

Would you like to work at Symphony? Explore open job positions and apply to join the Symphony team!

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Our values

Passion

We foster and share deep market and technical proficiencies. We are intensely curious and creative with collaboration and workflows.

Expertise

Our mission is to enable secure collaboration across global markets. We work through obstacles, adapt to change, and are driven in pursuit of our purpose.

Community

We are a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that succeeds together. We enable communities. Symphony is how we connect, collaborate, and run our business

Trust

We strive for trust. We are transparent, meet our commitments, and do what we say. Our behavior and tone are trustworthy.

Ownership

We are empowered and accountable to put our employees and customers first. We are self-critical, learn from our mistakes, and celebrate our successes.

Security

Security is our key differentiator. The relentless pursuit of security guides all of our actions.

Our team

Our global leadership team brings together decades of deep financial markets management experience. They are committed to accelerating our trusted network across the industry and delivering the value of Symphony’s unique position as genuinely disruptive market infrastructure.

Meet the team
Brad Levy

Brad Levy

Chief Executive Officer
Ben Chrnelich

Ben Chrnelich

President & Chief Financial Officer
Corinna Mitchell

Corinna Mitchell

General Counsel
Dietmar Fauser

Dietmar Fauser

Chief Information Officer
Michael Lynch

Michael Lynch

Chief Product Officer

Our offices

New York

565 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10017
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London

135 Bishopsgate, 12th floor
London, EC2M 3TP
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Singapore

50 Raffles Place, L30
Singapore Land Tower
Singapore 048623
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Abu Dhabi

Cloud Spaces ADGM
Island – Level 15, Al Sarab Tower
ADGM – جزيرة المارية – أبو ظبي
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Belfast

Clockwise Belfast
River House
40-60 High Street
Belfast BT1 2BE
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Hong Kong

2F, 8 Queen’s Road East

Wanchai, Hong Kong
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Paris

29-31 rue de Courcelles

75008 Paris
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Pennington

12 W Delaware Avenue
Pennington, NJ 08534
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Sophia Antipolis

Le Fairway – Bâtiment A
980 Avenue Roumanille
06410 Biot
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Stockholm

Vasagatan 28
111 20 Stockholm
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Tel Aviv

Yigal Alon St 114, floor 14
Tel Aviv-Yafo,
6744320
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Tokyo

3F, Otemachi Financial City

Grand Cube

1-9-2 Otemachi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004
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Get started with Symphony

We're happy to answer questions and get you acquainted with Symphony and our Messaging, Voice, Directory and Analytics platforms.

  • Streamline secure collaboration
  • Connect market participants and workflows
  • Empower data and insights
  • Enable security & compliance
  • Deploy and build integrations, apps & bots

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Brad Levy

Chief Executive Officer

New York

Brad Levy is the chief executive officer at Symphony, the leading financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform.

Prior to Symphony, Brad was a partner and executive at global analytics and information provider, IHS Markit, having also served as CEO of MarkitSERV and global head of its loan settlement and software services division. Earlier in his career, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, culminating in his role as managing director and global head of GS’s Principal Strategic Investments Group.

He was recently recognized as CEO of the Year at the 2022 Markets Choice Awards and included in the TabbFORUM 40 Top Innovators in Financial Markets list, highlighting Brad’s deep markets expertise and commitment to driving innovation and tackling inefficiencies in the industry. He had been previously recognized with the Markets Choice Neil DeSena Market Advocate Award for his dedication to driving change as a global leader in financial services. 

Brad has served on numerous boards within the financial sector and is a sought-after advisor and speaker.

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Ben Chrnelich

President & Chief Financial Officer

New Jersey

Ben Chrnelich has a passion for Capital Markets Technology and has spent his career focused on enabling trading organizations to utilize technology that drives efficiency and productivity. Over the past two decades he has held financial and management leadership positions at Charles Schwab, Lehman Brothers, NYSE and IPC where he drove business strategy to adapt to the constantly evolving trading landscape. When not working, Ben enjoys coaching soccer for NJ ODP and his daughter’s teams.

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Corinna Mitchell

General Counsel

London

Corinna Mitchell is Symphony’s general counsel. She leads the company’s legal work and operations and is a member of Symphony’s global executive team. She spent 20 years in private legal practice and most recently as General Counsel at financial services investment advisory firm Foxford Advisors LLP. Corinna is based in London.

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Dietmar Fauser

Chief Information Officer

Sophia Antipolis

Dietmar Fauser is Symphony’s chief information officer. He leads engineering, security, operations and support, and internal IT. Dietmar has a long history of building large-scale critical IT systems and is an open source and open systems advocate.

Previously he was the senior vice president of Platform Engineering, Global Operations and executive committee member at Amadeus. Dietmar has a deep network in the IT industry. His focus is on managing high performing engineering teams to build industrial scale distributed systems that require high performance and high availability. Dietmar is a member of Symphony’s global executive team, board member of FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, and board member of RedHat Strategic Advisory Board.

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Michael Lynch

Chief Product Officer

New York

Michael Lynch is Symphony’s chief product officer. He joined the firm in 2021 and is responsible for its product strategy, partnerships, professional services and marketing.

Prior to Symphony, Michael was head of digital workplace product strategy at Goldman Sachs, after spending 12 years at Bloomberg where he held multiple leadership roles including head of product for the communication and collaboration products on the Bloomberg terminal.

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