Company
What we do
Founders
Scott Armstrong
Co-Founder & CEO
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Scott is an entrepreneur with 30+ years building, scaling, and exiting businesses. His background spans leadership, investment, and high-growth ventures, including a key role at WaveTec through its $350M+ acquisition by Alcon. At NWS, Scott leads corporate strategy and execution.
David Magli
Co-Founder & Chairman
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David is an investment banker and board advisor with 20+ years advising banks and financial institutions. He has completed over 150 transactions representing more than $15 billion across whole-bank and branch M&A, capital raising and FDIC-assisted deals. He is audit committee chairman and co-founder of a $250 million NYSE-listed financial services SPAC.
Ryan Armstrong
Co-Founder & CRO
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Ryan brings 15+ years of experience building and leading sales organizations across startups and established companies. With a background in finance and technology, he leads NWS’s revenue strategy, financial institution distribution, and strategic partnerships with banks and credit unions.
Darren Moon
Co-Founder & COO
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Darren brings 21+ years of experience across finance, wealth management, trading, and blockchain. Founder of 12+ businesses, including four blockchain ventures, he leads NWS’s digital asset strategy and institutional infrastructure for crypto and tokenized assets.
Leadership
John Bluher
Chief Financial Officer
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John is a senior finance and legal executive with extensive experience across capital markets, private equity, public companies, and financial regulation. His career includes senior roles at the SEC, Knight Capital, Janus, Lehman Brothers, and multiple growth companies, bringing NWS deep expertise in finance, governance, capital formation, and institutional execution.
James Reboin
Chief Technology Officer
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James is a technology and operating executive with extensive experience across fintech, insurtech, systems architecture, digital platforms, operations, and go-to-market strategy. As NWS’s CTO, he focuses on scalable technology architecture, platform integrations, and the infrastructure required to deploy NWS across financial institutions.
Andrei Stanciulescu
Chief AI & Systems Officer
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Andrei combines financial-services technology experience with expertise in Salesforce, AI, automation, data, and business systems. His background includes Web3 and trading platforms as well as Financial Services Cloud, positioning him to support NWS’s product architecture, automation, AI capabilities, and bank integration infrastructure.