Oranj Bolsters Leadership Team with Three Executive Hires

CHICAGO, Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Oranj, the technology platform that enables financial advisors to meet the evolving needs of today's investors, today announced it has strengthened its leadership team with three new hires for its Chicago headquarters. The new hires include:

• Don Bodnar, chief technology officer
• Greg Sauer, vice president of business development
• Ben Pera, senior data scientist

These new hires help position Oranj for continued growth, while accelerating the company's ability to respond to the changing technology needs and demands from the financial advisor community as well as investors.

"The financial advisor industry is one of the last frontiers to fully embrace technology, and I wanted to make it easier for traditional advisors to keep up with the changing needs of investors," said David Lyon, CEO and founder of Oranj.  "Don, Greg and Ben will play a huge role in advancing the Oranj platform as well as the adoption of technology in the financial advisor arena.  All three of them will help Oranj to stay ahead of the curve while enabling financial advisors to become more nimble." 

About Don Bodnar
Don Bodnar brings more than 20 years of software development experience to Oranj as the company's first chief technology officer.  Most recently, Don pioneered the development of technology allowing consumers to purchase options on airline tickets at Options Away.  Prior to that, Don was a senior software developer at JP Morgan Chase Bank.  With his strong technical and financial service background, Don will be responsible for leading the developer team at Oranj to improve the existing platform for financial advisors to more efficiently serve and collaborate with investors.

About Greg Sauer
Boasting more than 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, Greg Sauer joins Oranj as vice president of business development.  Greg was most recently with Meridian-IQ as the SVP, advisor channel, where he was responsible for key relationships with broker dealers, RIAs and asset management firms.  Greg was also president of The Primary Group for more than 10 years where he lead a large team of professional recruiters that specialized in transitioning advisors' practices and building asset management teams.  With a firm grasp on the importance of the relationship between a financial advisor and their client, Greg will leverage Oranj's technology to inform his team of best practices in the changing space.

About Ben Pera
Over the past several years, big data has been used to better serve customers in various industries including retail, e-commerce and banking.  The financial advisor space is no different.  Ben Pera joins Oranj as senior data scientist where he'll be focused on developing analytics to support the advisor/client relationship.  His data analytics and wealth management experience will help improve the Oranj platform to make more predictive and informed financial decisions. 

Since the first of the year, Oranj has witnessed tremendous growth of 230% new clients and 65% more employees in the past year alone.  For more information, please visit www.runoranj.com.

About Oranj

Oranj was created as a result of a simple observation: people have transformed how they live, work, shop and buy – it's time for advisors to adapt.  Our service provides clients & prospects a user friendly dashboard to connect & monitor their entire financial life and goals under 1-login umbrella.  Oranj will not just aggregate accounts from over 20,000 institutions but also track progress to goals, calculate monthly cash flow and serve as a central location to stay connected and collaborate with you their trusted advisor. 

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