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The first version of Arteria was born inside of Deloitte. Incubating inside of the largest consulting firm in the world had its advantages – we had access to experts in every vertical and were able to very much punch above our weight.
Our real beginning, however, was a few chapters back. In 2009, Shelby left the partnership of a big law firm to start a Legal Tech business (which Abrar joined a moment later as one of the key employees). Despite being (very) early to the space, the business grew meteorically. It sold to Deloitte a few years later (which is were we met Jono!) and the rest is history.
The point is, we have been at this for a while. We have spent our last 15 years working on documentation problems with some of the largest companies in the world. The financial services vertical has always been our passion.
Documents are central to nearly every workflow in financial services. They are the workbench of a deal, the medium for collaboration, and – almost always – the point where automation breaks down.
This is why we started Arteria. The market needed a single set of documentation capabilities to bring end-to-end processes into the modern world. Our mission is to make core operations frictionless in financial services. We believe institutions are faster, smarter, and more client-centric with Arteria.
Welcome to our journey!
Shelby Austin, Abrar Huq & Jonathan Wong
Arteria Co-Founders
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Shelby Austin is the founder and CEO of Arteria AI. Shelby was previously the Managing Partner of Growth & Investments and Omnia AI at Deloitte. Shelby had responsibility for the Canadian firm's inorganic and accelerated growth investments through acquisitions, ventures, incubation and scale-up and asset development activities and its AI and data footprint.
Shelby joined Deloitte through its acquisition of her first company, a high-growth startup that also focused on documentation. Previously, Shelby was a Partner at a Canadian "Seven Sister" law firm where her practice focused on complex corporate and commercial litigation matters.
Shelby was named to the Maclean's 2024 list of the 100 Most Powerful Canadians, one of 10 in the AI category. In the past, Shelby has received the Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 award given by The Women's Executive Network (WXN) and the Rising Stars award given by Lexpert Magazine to Canada's leading lawyers under 40.
Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer
Abrar Huq is a Co-Founder of Arteria AI and the Chief Client Officer, where he is responsible for client outcomes.
Prior to Arteria AI, Abrar was a Partner at Omnia AI, Deloitte’s artificial intelligence practice, where he worked closely with the world’s largest financial institutions on AI and analytics programs. Abrar has spent his career building and applying technology, including AI, on traditional processes in financial services.
Abrar joined Deloitte through the acquisition of a high-growth startup focused on documentation, and worked closely with Shelby Austin. A former lawyer, Abrar holds a JD degree from the University of Toronto.
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan Wong is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Arteria AI, where he leads the company's technology vision and engineering teams. Jonathan brings deep expertise in building scalable enterprise AI systems and has been at the forefront of applying machine learning and natural language processing to complex document workflows.
Before Arteria, Jonathan held senior engineering and architecture roles at leading technology companies, where he built and scaled mission-critical systems serving millions of users.
Chief Science Officer
Prior to Arteria, Amir was the Director of Applied Research at Scribd, a San Francisco-based technology company. Previously, Amir served as Director of AI Research for Thomson Reuters, where he led and managed research and engineering teams to build AI-powered solutions at scale in Financial & Risk, NewsTech and Legal domains.
Amir's career was previously focused on academia. He was a Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Astrophysical Sciences at the University of Toronto, in addition to a Research Physicist at Princeton University. His highly cited publications (several with hundreds of citations) advanced understanding of large-scale structure, dark energy, and potential deviations from isotropy using cosmic background radiation. In the past decade, Amir has been applying statistical and machine learning techniques to data science challenges in industry with a focus on building reliable agentic AI at scale to solve real world problems.
Amir holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Data-driven Astrophysics from the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), a Master of Science in Quantum Fields & String Theory (Physics) from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), and a Bachelor of Science, Physics from the Sharif University of Technology.
Chief Operating Advisor
Summer Lang is the Chief Operating Advisor at Arteria AI, where she is responsible for driving effective operational performance across Arteria's business.
Prior to Arteria, Summer held a number of senior leadership roles at BMO Capital Markets. Most recently, Summer served as Managing Director and Head of Global Markets International, where she was responsible for driving net income growth across global markets’ institutional clients and product lines in EMEA and APAC. Prior to that, Summer was the Chief Operating Officer for BMO Capital Markets, where she drove transformation and oversaw onboarding/KYC/AML, regulatory, compliance, strategic planning, and operational functions.
Summer first joined BMO Capital Markets from the acquisition of Paloma Securities, where she served as Chief Technology Officer. Summer earned an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Chief Financial Officer
John Wallace is Arteria’s Chief Financial Officer, responsible for financial strategy, capital planning, and investor relations. He previously led Arteria’s Global Professional Services organization.
John brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling technology businesses and delivering complex enterprise programs for Fortune 500 organizations. During his tenure at Deloitte, John founded, scaled, and operationalized the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Managed Services practice. He scaled the team to more than 75 specialized professionals and consistently exceeded profitability benchmarks through margin discipline, cost control, and repeatable, enterprise-grade delivery.
John is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from Western University.
Vice President and Head of Financial Services – Commercial Operations
Daniel joined Arteria with over 35 years’ experience working at the intersection of technology and financial services. Prior to Arteria he was at State Street Global Markets where he was Head of Portfolio Solutions Sales for the Americas. In that role he had responsibility for the sales and distribution of a broad suite of offerings, including Currency Management, Transition Management, Trading Products (Equities, Fixed Income, and Derivatives), as well as the firm’s Outsourced Trading business. Prior to that, Daniel held the position of Head of Equities for the Americas and served on the Board of Managers for State Street’s broker-dealer entity.
In addition to his experience working at large institutions such as State Street Daniel was a founding member of Clearpool Group, an industry disrupting FinTech that provides holistic algorithmic trading solutions. Daniel led Execution Services and Platform Sales for seven years up until Clearpool’s acquisition by BMO Financial Group.
Vice President and Head of Engineering
Andy MacDonald is a Vice President and Head of Engineering at Arteria AI, where he leads all technical strategy and execution functions.
Prior to Arteria, Andy served as Vice President of Engineering for the enterprise portfolio at VTS, where he oversaw technical strategy and execution of the full VTS portfolio, including four major SaaS products.
Andy joined VTS following its acquisition of Lane, where Andy served as Head of Engineering and scaled the team from four to over 30 cross-functional staff.
Previously, Andy held various senior roles in technology across engineering, product, and design.
Vice President and Head of Product
Devin Held is a Vice President and Head of Product at Arteria, where she oversees product strategy, design, and architecture. Devin was previously Arteria's Director of Engineering where she led technical execution.
Prior to Arteria, Devin was a Development Lead at Omnia AI, Deloitte's artificial intelligence practice. In this role, Devin led the development of various products within the AI Factory, launching AI-enabled products within Deloitte.
Devin holds a Master’s degree, Computer Science from Western University and a Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science from UC Irvine, both specialized in systems and software.
Regional Vice President, Head of EMEA
Mark Bennewith is a Regional Vice President and Head of EMEA at Arteria AI, where he oversees commercial operations in European and international markets.
Prior to Arteria, Mark led Business Development for a UK-based software company. Previously, Mark served as the Head of Business Development, Global Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank. In this role, Mark led business development for the DCM, ECM, and LDCM businesses in addition to relationship management of priority banks. Mark previously held various senior roles at Deutsche Bank focused on business development, relationship management, and communications.
Mark has extensive international experience in continental Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He is a graduate of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Vice President, Head of Talent
Jorge Muina is a Vice President and Head of Talent at Arteria AI, where he leads strategic talent management, talent acquisition, and talent strategy.
Prior to Arteria, Jorge served as a Senior Manager Talent, Office of the CEO at Shopify, where he led executive recruiting and various leadership programs. Jorge's previous roles at Shopify focused on recruitment and HR business partnering across several groups.
Previously, Jorge was an Executive Search Lead at Uber, where he built executive search capabilities for international markets based in Amsterdam. He was later relocated to Toronto to support a handful of executives rebuilding the Uber Canada's senior leadership team.
Jorge has extensive international experience in Europe and North America. He holds an MBA from ICEX Madrid and a Bachelor of Laws & Political Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Chief of Staff
Anthony Lisi is a founding member of Arteria AI and the Chief of Staff, where he drives strategic initiatives, fundraising, and strategic go-to-market.
Anthony began his career at Arteria in its Professional Services business where he executed large-scale programs for tier one global banks. Prior to Arteria, Anthony was a Consultant at Omnia AI, Deloitte’s artificial intelligence practice, where he worked with large-cap corporations on AI strategy and program delivery.
Anthony holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University.
