Headquarters:

Hamburg, NY

Year founded:

2008

Number of employees:

Phone:

678 428 3913

Email:

mary.blackburn@sycamorecompany.com

Website:

sycamorecompany.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/the-sycamore-company

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Mike Overdorf

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Mary Blackburn

Executive Vice President

Tom O’Connor

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Mike Overdorf is president and founder of The Sycamore Company. He has over 30 years of experience working across multiple financial service verticals, including banking, wealth management, and insurance. Overdorf earned his BS degree in finance from Siena College and his MBA from SUNY Albany.

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Mike Overdorf

Mary Blackburn is executive vice president of The Sycamore Company. With over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, her responsibilities have encompassed recruiting, surveillance, operations, and account management at broker/dealers and fund companies. She holds S7 and S24 FINRA licenses.

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Mary Blackburn

Tom O’Connor has spent over 15 years in the financial services industry with experience across investment, technology and marketing specialties, leading strategic business growth and fintech innovation. After serving as chief technology officer for 3D Asset Management, he joined with Sheryl O’Connor and Phil Lubinski to develop the IncomeConductor system. He has worked closely with advisors, helping to draw clarity of the segmented retirement income plan strategy and incorporating that experience into IncomeConductor’s evolution.

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Peter Brittain

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Peter Brittain is an accomplished financial services sales executive, specializing in building strategic relationships and leading consultative sales. His focus at FusionIQ is on developing digital wealth management platform partnerships with financial institutions, helping them leverage FusionIQ’s cloud-native technology to drive profitable organic growth and meet the evolving needs of their customers. Prior to joining FusionIQ, Brittain was a sales associate at Olden Lane Securities, where he was instrumental in managing client relationships, driving the origination of $32.5 million in subordinated debentures, and developing a pipeline of $140 million in subordinated debt underwriting. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

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Sam Robinson

Partner

Sam Robinson practices commercial litigation and class action defence. He regularly represents shareholders, officers, and directors of both public and private corporations. He has extensive experience acting and advising in disputes related to the interpretation and enforcement of contractual rights. He also advises both dissident shareholders and boards of directors of corporations in fights for control of public corporations.

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Sycamore Company has established itself as a leader in the wealth management sector by embracing cutting-edge, cloud-native technology, none more so than its latest offering – Surveillance Manager. The platform is designed to overcome the challenges of manual, fragmented, and siloed compliance processes. It ensures that broker-dealers have the necessary tools to mitigate risks effectively while increasing operational efficiencies. Surveillance Manager empowers broker-dealers to conduct detailed what-if analyses at both branch and regional levels, using Salesforce's CRM Analytics for flexible, powerful data analytics and surveillance. It is the answer to broker-dealers who understand the need to upgrade their surveillance technology now, when the need for advanced surveillance systems is more pressing than ever. Founded in 2008, Sycamore Company are industry veterans with 30+ years of experience each, some still holding FINRA licenses, who have worked in the space they serve. They understand the business challenges and can offer best practices solutions, in addition to providing a technology platform. Its leadership group of Mike Overdorf (president), Mary Blackburn (EVP) and Marypat Ganley (SVP), are plugged in and actively involved with their team as well as their clients. They foster an environment of open and honest communication, both internally and with our clients, encouraging individuals to share ideas to improve our platform or services. Broker-dealers oversee transactions and commissions across advisors and accounts to detect and investigate abuse and fraud effectively. However, many still rely on outdated technology, which complicates data aggregation, alert configuration, and efficiency. With approximately 3,500 broker-dealer firms registered with the SEC, each responsible for rigorous monitoring of compliance, the need for a modern, efficient surveillance system has never been more critical. Challenges with legacy systems and traditional surveillance systems often involve manual or fragmented processes, such as downloading statements and pulling data from multiple silos, making it difficult to maintain a comprehensive supervisory system. Legacy systems are typically expensive, hard-coded, and inflexible, leading to significant customization costs and operational inefficiencies. These systems generate numerous false positives, increasing workload without improving risk management. The modern solution Sycamore's platform collects and normalizes data from multiple sources into a consistent format. This efficient data handling is integrated into the core solution, avoiding additional costs and complexities associated with legacy systems. Unlike hard-coded systems, Surveillance Manager enables users to configure their own alerts, slicing through account, trading, and commission data effortlessly. This customization allows for precise and timely issue identification. With powerful dashboards at hand, with Surveillance Manager compliance officers can confirm operational parameters and detect problem areas, ensuring proactive risk management. Sycamore facilitates efficient management of advisors, compliance reporting, and the handling of advisor submissions. This includes flagging accounts, implementing holds, and matching transactions with commissions in real-time. As a cloud-native platform, Sycamore ensures that all these functionalities are accessible remotely, accommodating the current trend towards remote work. The platform's cloud-based nature also allows for easy adjustments, making it simple to manage and maintain without extensive IT support. The system processes millions of records in real-time, enabling firms, advisors, and clients to see up-to-date information instantly. By adopting Sycamore, broker-dealers can improve their compliance processes, reduce risks, and ensure regulatory adherence, all while enhancing operational efficiency and data integrity. This shift is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and meeting the demands of today's financial environment.

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Andrea Gonsalves

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Gerald Chan

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Nader R. Hasan

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Liane Brown

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Andrea Gonsalves has extensive experience in litigation and dispute resolution, with particular emphasis in appeals and judicial review applications, administrative and public law, commercial disputes, defamation and media law, intellectual property disputes, and professional discipline matters. She provides practical and strategic advice on complex issues that often arise at the intersection of many of those areas. Gonsalves has tried cases before the Ontario Superior Court, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench and has argued cases before all levels of court in Ontario and the Federal Courts, as well as various administrative tribunals.

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Andrea Gonsalves

Gerald Chan has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada (Canadian Lawyer, 2019), one of the Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada (Benchmark Litigation, 2023–24), White-Collar Crime/Enforcement Litigator of the Year (Benchmark Litigation, 2023), and Criminal Defence Lawyer of the Year, Toronto (Best Lawyers, 2024). He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and a faculty member with the National Criminal Law Program. Chan is a bencher of the Law Society of Ontario. He serves as vice chair of the Law Society Tribunal, Appeal Division, and a Trustee of the Law Foundation of Ontario.

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Nader R. Hasan, a partner at Stockwoods LLP, practises criminal, regulatory, and constitutional law at both the trial and appellate levels. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where he has taught courses on the law of evidence and currently teaches a seminar on criminal punishment from a US-Canada comparative perspective. He is a co-author of Search and Seizure (Emond, 2021), Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis, 2018), and Sentencing, ninth edition (LexisNexis, 2017), and an author of numerous articles on criminal and constitutional law.

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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.

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Liane Brown

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Liane Brown

Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.

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Ben Irantalab

On a larger scale, HSH handles class action and mass tort lawsuits representing groups of people injured by dangerous products, medications, medical devices, and negligent organizations. The HSH team is known for providing caring and attentive service to clients, and is proud of the firm’s excellent reputation within the legal and medical communities.

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