Nexos was founded by Gordon Baird, the former CEO of Independence Bancshares and operating partner at Thomas H Lee Partners. Mr. Baird has over three decades of experience building new innovative financial services companies. He founded two finance companies growing one from inception to over $2 billion in assets and the other from inception to over $12 billion in assets. He designed and implemented multiple state-of-the-art trading, pricing and settlement systems including systems for match-funded repo and treasury desks, cross-currency trading and settlement platforms and credit arbitrage trading strategies. Mr. Baird was the recipient of the Temenos AG Product Innovation Award, a member of the Software AG North American Advisory Board, board member of ABA Card Solutions, the product certification program for the American Bankers Association. Mr. Baird advised the U.S. Treasury and the New York Federal Reserve on the emergency TARP and TALF programs during the 2008 financial crisis. He was a director at Citigroup Global Markets, Product Manager at State Street Bank and Trust Company and credit analyst at John Hancock Real Estate Finance. He led the $730 million recapitalization of Sterling Financial at Thomas H Lee Partners and made over $2 billion of investments managing Paramax Capital Partners. Mr. Baird was a member of the Board of Directors of Independence Bancshares and Independence National Bank, requiring approvals by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and former Board Member and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Macquarie Total Return Global Infrastructure Fund, a NYSE listed closed end mutual fund.