Alexis Wallace Lavigne
Co-founder & CEO
Executive with commercial and operational leadership across financial services, investment operations, and governed enterprise software. Builds and scales high-performing commercial teams for regulated buyers.
Built by operators and builders who have lived the gap between financial systems.
Fontana exists because financial operations teams still absorb too much complexity between systems: spreadsheets, files, exceptions, approvals, reconciliations, and evidence that has to be reconstructed after the fact.
Founder-market fit
A team shaped by the problems Fontana is solving.
The founding team combines commercial leadership, AI product experience, and engineering depth across financial services, investment operations, reconciliation, enterprise software, and market infrastructure.
Jethro MacDonald
Co-founder & CPO
AI/ML and investment operations product leader. Former Global Head of AI/ML Product at SmartStream, leading AI-driven reconciliation and exception management capabilities, before running Investment Operations product management at SimCorp.
Zoltan Bourne
Co-founder & CTO
Multi-disciplinary, AI-focused technologist with 20+ years in Financial Technology and executive leadership. Ex-director at Citadel LLC; serial founder, and specialist in enterprise platform architecture, AI systems, and large-scale trading technology for global financial institutions.
Experience across institutional finance
Credibility from the platforms senior buyers recognise.
Fontana’s team brings experience connected to market infrastructure, reconciliation, investment operations, buy-side technology, and enterprise financial systems.
Practical, controlled, auditable.
- Deterministic execution over AI inference
- Transparent lineage from source to sign-off
- Clear approval and human-in-the-loop pipelines
- Agentic reasoning within policy guardrails
- Evidence built for audit and compliance
A short note on the name.
“Fontana” is the Italian word for fountain or spring, drawn from the Latin fons, meaning source or well. A fountain represents constant movement - water that flows, renews, and gives life. That’s how we see data: not static, but flowing, alive, and full of potential when harnessed in the right way.