WHO WE ARE

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Pierce Crosby

Managing Partner

As the founder of Merchant Seven, Pierce leads the strategic vision for the business and advises across all companies and divisions of the business. Prior, he served as the General Manager at TradingView, managing enterprise, global sales, investor relations, and market strategy, and StockTwits, as head of revenue strategy. He started his career as a reporter at Thoms

Stefan Cheplick

Partner

Stefan has worked in investing technology for more than a decade, from the earliest days of the financial social web to some of the largest platforms in the industry. As the head of the marketing and social division at Merchant Seven, he drives client direction on all things community and messaging for the industry. Previously, he served as head of community for TradingView, 

Milana Ruchkina

Chief of Staff

As a co-founder of Merchant Seven, and the CoS for the company, Milana controls operations and overall division deliverables for the company, while specifically supervising the enterprise division within Merchant Seven directly. Prior, Milana ran North America sales for TradingView and acted as de facto enterprise product director, pushing forward the development and a

Irina Smirnova

Market Data Strategist

At the earliest stages of TradingView, Irina acted as the manager of core market data strategy, management, implementation, and ongoing accounting, reporting, audit and payments.

With a deep expertise in market data, she then joined TakeProfit as their lead covering market data and financial controller functions.

Irina now deploys with teams who are meaningfull

Raphael Cordeiro 

Community Development Strategist

Rophael leads international business and community development, building key partnerships and driving growth from open to close. In his previous role he was responsible for strategic initiates for LATAM, overseeing the region’s leading market expansion, and contract negotiations while growing the the trader ecosystem.