Executive Team
Nick Howard
Nick Howard, owner and one of the founding members of Bantix Technologies, brings a diverse background into the mix of an extremely strong technical group. Nick's ability to listen to a business problem and present the client with a clean, practical and functional solution is one of his greatest strengths. He has been developing applications for the Microsoft-based PC platform for over 20 years starting his development at ZS Associates as a member of its Mapping and Territory Alignment (MAPS) development team. After several years at ZS, Nick entered the financial markets and joined O'Connor and Associates (soon to be Swiss Bank) as a member of the interest rate options trading group. This was the start of a 7 year period in which Nick traded Eurodollar Options for Swiss Bank and several other trading institutions. While trading, Nick continued developing software as an independent contractor. During his time on the floor, he created options pricing programs for many of the brokerage groups at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Nick also developed an options pricing spreadsheet that was used by many of the broker groups at the CME and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). ( In 2004, this spreadsheet was used as a prototype for Bantix' flagship software-as-a-service (SaaS) application - QuikStrike. ) In 1998, Nick returned to full-time software development working at The Arbitrage Group hedge fund where he developed trading system support tools for the Equity Option group. Nick spent a year at a dot com called IQ4hire before moving to Zurich Insurance (ZNA) where he was one of the software architects responsible for the user interface layout, design and development on their Workbench product as well as many other products still being used in the daily business regimen at ZNA. In August 2003, Nick and the other principals moved to Bantix as a full-time venture.
Nick holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Northwestern University (1987) and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago (1997). He is an adjunct faculty member at the College of DuPage and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He has developed the curriculum and taught both graduate and undergraduate classes from JavaScript to ASP.Net application development. Nick is also a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.
LinkedIn Public Profile Page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasjhoward
Tony Andriacchi
Tony Andriacchi, one of the founding members of Bantix Technologies, has over 19 years of experience developing custom business software applications. Tony’s ability to map software solutions to business problems, combined with his architectural and technical expertise have made him a key driver in the success of our Consulting practice area. At Bantix, Tony has been one of our leaders in bringing thoughtful and creative enterprise-level technology solutions to our clients in the Insurance sector. In addition, he has spearheaded innovative and successful projects in many other industries including Education, Distribution, Finance and E-Commerce to name a few. Prior to Bantix, Tony spent several years as a technical consultant and manager at ZS Associates where he played a lead role in the development and evolution of its flagship GIS application. Taking it from a rudimentary DOS program to a robust, Windows-based mapping and analytical package and ultimately to the web as a full-featured SaaS GIS product. Before launching into Bantix as a full-time profession in 2003, he spent a year working on Document Generation and Management software at Zurich Insurance as a lead Software Architect.
Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
LinkedIn Public Profile Page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyandriacchi
