FISD Membership

New Candidate

Mark Haraburda, CEO | Mark Wator, Head of Financial & Media Sales

Mark Haraburda – CEO, Barchart

Mark Haraburda has been the CEO of Barchart since May 2016, overseeing the company’s strategic direction and operations. Under his leadership, Barchart has expanded its footprint as a leading provider of market data and technology solutions for the financial, commodity, and media sectors. Mark has been instrumental in driving innovation, focusing on data transparency, integration, and delivery to empower decision-making across industries.

Before becoming CEO, Mark served as Barchart’s Managing Director of Business Development & Sales, playing a pivotal role in developing key partnerships and expanding the company’s product offerings. His earlier career includes roles with the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (Cboe) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), where he gained deep expertise in financial markets and trading.

Mark holds a Master of Financial Markets degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Bradley University. With a career rooted in technology and finance, Mark continues to lead initiatives that bridge the gap between data innovation and solutions for clients worldwide.

Mark Wator – Head of Financial & Media Sales, Barchart

Mark Wator has served as Barchart’s Head of Financial & Media Sales since 2021, where he leads the growth of sales and revenue across global financial and media industries. With over 15 years at Barchart, Mark has played a pivotal role in driving the company’s expansion into new markets, asset classes, and geographic regions. He oversees comprehensive market data and technology that includes managed services and APIs for data, charting, alerts, and more.

Mark began his career at Barchart in 2008 as a Sales Associate, steadily advancing through the organization with increasing roles and responsibilities. His deep understanding of sales, business development, and product strategy has made him a key driver of Barchart’s success.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. Today, he focuses on building and empowering a dynamic sales team, delivering innovative solutions to brokerages, wealth management firms, fintech, banking, trading, and exchange clients, as well as traditional and financial media publishers.

Incumbent: 6 of 6 meetings attended.

Sallianne Taylor, Head of Government Relations, EMEA | Jessica Horsfall, Global Exchange Relationship Management

Between them, Jess and Sallianne have a wealth of experience within the world of market data. Sallianne has sat on both the FISD Executive Committee and the SIIA Board for a number of years and her contribution to the industry was recognised earlier this year when she was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at WFIC in Austin.

Whilst Sallianne is now immersed in Government Relations she maintains a keen interest in market data and follows all things regulatory that may impact our industry. Jessica is at the front line of market data at Bloomberg where she oversees the relationships Bloomberg has with exchanges around the world. Together they propose to continue working across the market data industry to ensure FISD keeps pace with the increasingly demanding changes happening within the market data space, and collaborate with FISD members to improve the environment for all participants.

New Candidate

Joseph Galarneau, Chief Product Officer and Head of Data Science | Kelly Kilgour, Principal Data Scientist

CivicScience is a real-time consumer insights platform that historically has worked with corporates and is now expanding into financial services alt data. As the crossover between corporate/discretionary and traditional FS buyers will be an increased focus of FISD in the coming years, we feel that having representation on the board from a company with deep experience in the prior may be helpful to all members. Also, the board does not have many representatives from product and data science, so this functional expertise would also provide more board depth. We are new FISD members, but excited about the potential.

Joe Galarneau, our primary representative, is a longtime data executive who previously led martech product at Wayfair, which included their data offerings. He also brings deep startup community experience to the role, as he is a CEO/founder of a data SaaS company with a successful exit and entrepreneur-in-residence for NYC’s largest startup accelerator. He is a serial chief product and technology officer at several other companies, as well as a former practice lead at KPMG Consulting. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/galarneau/

Kelly Kilgour, our second representative, is a seasoned data scientist with a background in consumer data, healthcare, and e-commerce, as well as experience working at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, a premier computer science thinktank. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellykilgour/

New Candidate

Steve Moreton, Global Head of Product Management, FIA | Sara Baker, Global Head of Commercial Management

As representatives on the FISD Executive Committee, Steve Moreton and Sara Baker would bring a wealth of expertise and a commitment to fostering innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership within the market data community.

Biographies

• Steve Moreton, Director, Global Head of Product Management

Steve has been at the forefront of innovation with almost 25 years of experience in market data and technology, from the transition to hosted data centres to the more recent evolution toward cloud solutions. In 2015, Steve introduced Observability to the capital markets with his award-winning Mosaic platform, setting a new data transparency and performance monitoring standard. During his tenure at CJC, he has worked with various Global Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and vendors, including JP Morgan, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ICBC Standard, and industry leaders like Reuters. Renowned for his thought leadership, Steve has shared his expertise on multiple high-profile panels at FISD events in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London, where he showcased transformative use cases for market data. His contributions also include mentoring and supporting new industry voices, cultivating the next generation of leaders, and actively raising awareness of market data for prospective new joiners.

• Sara Baker, Global Head of Commercial Management

Sara has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry, holding key roles across tier-one global investment banks like Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Citigroup, Daiwa, and HSBC Private Bank. She has built a broad expertise in Inventory Management, Request and Service Management, Procurement, Sourcing, Compliance, and Licensing. Since joining CJC in 2016 as part of the Managed Service Team, Sara utilises her vast skillset to assist clients at all levels. In 2022, she became Global Head of the Commercial Management Team, where she continues to drive operational success. Recognised for her excellence, Sara was named ‘Consultant of the Year’ at the 2022 Women In Technology and Data Awards by Waters Technology. She exemplifies how women can excel professionally while balancing family life with diligence and precision, bringing the same dedication to her personal and professional endeavours.

Objectives for the FISD Executive Committee

1. Expand Adoption and Drive Innovation: Grow FISD’s reach by encouraging greater participation from organisations across the market data community. This involves a data-led approach to enhance events, improve post-event materials, and member research and feedback. We aim to introduce more thought leadership talks from industry-aligned players ahead of the capital markets in technology adoption and implement improved networking strategies. These efforts aim to keep FISD events at the forefront of capital markets.
2. Implement Technology for Better Engagement: At the centre of our approach, CJC seeks to leverage innovative, data-focused technologies during FISD events and throughout member engagement. This will help drive meaningful events and post-event follow-ups, ensuring discussions translate into actionable outcomes and ongoing collaboration.

3.            Enhance Revenue and ROI: Focus on strategies that deliver measurable value to FISD members, increasing engagement and creating a stronger return on investment for all participants. FISD can further derive revenue beyond membership through regional, event-based fee-liable activities, collateral, and other initiatives, creating additional opportunities for growth and impact.

New Candidate

Ethan Shen, Managing Partner (Product) | Chris Tolmeijer, Managing Partner (Technology)

Ethan Shen is a Chief Executive Officer of Crizit, a fintech software company focused on providing Market Data Management and Data Analytics software and services.

At Crizit Ethan acts as the head of product development and research along with his duties as CEO. Ethan has over 15 years of experience delivering monitoring, optimization, and data distribution solutions to Tier 1 Asset Management firms. Prior to co-founding Crizit, Ethan served as a vendor systems manager and Bloomberg data specialist at consultancies based in New York, London and Vienna.

If elected to the FISD EC, Ethan will bring his unique perspective as a leader of a cloud-based fintech start-up world and provide diverse insights into what the industry looks like for new entrants that are providing technical and software services to large data consumers.

New Candidate

Mark Schaedel, CEO | Mark Bird, Cofounder

As capital markets evolve from transactions to data as their primary business activity, the role of FISD becomes increasingly critical. There is currently no other trade body focused on the business of data. Regardless of the constituency group, our common interests lie in how the commercial framework for data best supports the needs of the industry. Given the advances in how data is consumed and used commercially today, there are many opportunities for improvements in the commercial practices we rely on, many of which were developed decades ago and amended through a patchwork of changes adopted incrementally by the industry.

Over the years, we have observed FISD increasingly calcify around consumer cost in a somewhat myopic way. While managing cost is a legitimate and necessary priority, as a singular focus, it stifles innovation and detracts from the broader potential to unlock value and create a more efficient and sustainable business.

We are resubmitting our nominations for the Executive Committee; however, the value of our time and contributions relies on FISD’s willingness to embrace change and accept the entirety of the market data ecosystem as its base.

For this purpose, we do not believe that constituent groups serve our goals and propose replacing these groups with dynamic, interest-based groups focused on specific areas of innovation and growth. At DataBP, for example, we do not consider ourselves aligned with the vendor constituency group, which broadly spans commercial data redistributors, fintechs, and technology providers under one umbrella. This construct fails to reflect the diverse interests and priorities of these members. A similar observation can be made about the exchanges, considering the diversity of interests and the emergence of digital assets and multi-asset platforms. Additionally, we feel the index community deserves a role within FISD and is currently absent from the table.

Consumer group members are likely the best aligned but already have alternatives like IPUG and Cossium. For procurement professionals who participate in this group, market data is merely one facet of their remit. For the rest of the market data industry, FISD has the unique potential to become an organization centered on the business of data, fostering innovation as its core mission. This collective mission, combined with business interest-focused groups, could address critical challenges and opportunities, such as:

1. Data Licensing Innovation
2. Approvals, Reporting, Compliance, and the Commercial Administrative Framework
3. Distribution and Data Governance
4. Derived Data, Analytics, Benchmarks, and Index Use
5. Price Quality, Information Value, Transparency, and Fragmentation
6. Regulatory Frameworks, Changes, and Disconnects + advice for consolidated tapes

These are just a few examples, but the focus should be on forward-looking topics requiring a mix of engineers, content experts, and administrators from across consumers, vendors, and exchanges. In our experience, standards-focused initiatives often do not produce results; however, de facto standards, which are inadvertently created through the convergence on common business processes, have proven successful.

We are committed to dedicating time and energy to promoting innovation in our industry and collaborating on a progressive agenda for FISD. Thank you for considering our nominations. We look forward to working with FISD leadership to drive meaningful progress in the market data industry.

New Candidate

Jim Gregory, Senior Director – Head of Business Development Group | Trammel Robinson, Director – Head of ETF Issuer Relations

Jim Gregory

Jim Gregory is a Senior Director and the Head of Business Development for all facets of business development for the firm, which includes developing the strategy to increase the market share for new data clients and partners.

Jim has extensive experience in the financial services marketplace and joined ETF Global after 11 years as the U.S. Sales Director for the TMX – Toronto Stock Exchange – based in New York.  The team managed all U.S. accounts and sold data, analytics, hosting and connectivity services to both buy and sell side firms.

Jim’s previous financial industry experience included Senior Sales, Sales Management and Global Account Management positions at ADP Brokerage Services, Thomson Financial and Reuters America, where we brought on hundreds of clients using market data, clearing and treasury and risk management software services.

Jim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies from Colgate University.  Jim maintains many outside interests including being the President of the St. Joseph’s School – Yorkville School Advisory Board and a Board member of the Colgate University Maroon Council.

Trammel Robinson

Trammel Robinson is the Director and Head of ETF Issuer Relations at ETF Global, the leading provider of reference data for Exchange-Traded Products. In his role, Trammel is responsible for growing the firm’s consortium of ETF Issuers globally. In leading ETF Issuer Relations, Trammel helps ETF Issuers to gain visibility for their products through the firm’s website, partner platforms and direct data feeds.

Trammel and his team are currently concluding the most recent data footprint expansion to include the European and Asian listed Exchange-Traded Products.

Prior to joining the firm in August 2021, Trammel attended the University of Lynchburg where he received an MBA with an emphasis in Cybersecurity and was an All-American Lacrosse player.

Trammel is domiciled in the company’s New York headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Incumbent: 6 of 6 meetings attended.

Helen Keane, Director, Content Strategy & Acquisition | Tara Fitzpatrick, Global Head, Content Strategy & Acquisition

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarabfitzpatrick/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-keane-58157411/

New Candidate

Carla Craft, Director Sales Manager | Michael Salk, Managing Director Data Solutions

Carla Craft is a Director of Sales within Moody’s.  With over 15 years of experience in the data space Carla has developed a wealth of knowledge across various industry sectors, first working on Moody’s commercial real estate research product and most recently, looking after the Moody’s flagship ratings feed business in the Americas.  She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, and her MBA from Columbia University.

Mike Salk is a Managing Director of Product Strategy within Moody’s, where he has held leadership roles since 2007. He has extensive experience in the information industry, leveraging emerging technologies in support of developing and marketing products. Mike leads a team responsible for the product and strategic management of a global portfolio of data, news, research, and analytic content solutions. Before joining Moody’s, he worked at Reuters and the Associated Press. He received his undergraduate degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Position Statement:

FISD holds a unique position in bringing together individuals from exchanges, constituents, and vendors who focus on the licensing and management of financial information. As buyers and sellers of information, all parties share a common goal: to reduce the time and complexity of sourcing information. With the advent of Generative AI technologies, our firms have the tools to move faster in many areas. By working across constituent groups, we’ll advocate for developing common language, taxonomies, and schemas to reduce the time it takes to license and integrate content. Moody’s seeks this position to listen to and understand the challenges faced by market participants, forge collaborations for impactful change, and build a framework to achieve better business outcomes for all.

New Candidate

Tiffany Greenhouse, Head of Data Distribution Strategy | Lindsey Robbins, Data Acquisition and Management Strategy

Tiffany and Lindsey would be pleased to represent MSCI as part of the Vendor Constituency Group on the FISD Executive Committee. Recently, Tiffany and Lindsey have come together within MSCI as part of an enterprise, client-focused Product Strategy team with their roles dedicated to the entire lifecycle of content, from licensing and ingestion of data through successful implementation of products by clients. Consumer value from this lifecycle can only be achieved with deep industry knowledge fostered through groups like FISD, the strong partnerships MSCI has with exchanges and other vendors, and relentless focus on the needs of clients.

Tiffany began her career on the fixed income sales and trading desks at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs then worked as a trader and portfolio manager at Citigroup Asset Management. Tiffany joined MSCI in 2008, with roles in both index sales and product management before her current role as Head of Data Distribution, setting strategy and managing relationships with MSCI’s distribution partners across products and segments. Tiffany is an active member of the investment community, using her experience on both the consumer and the vendor sides of the aisle to focus on understanding institutional trends and effective networking. She enjoys volunteering, having served on the boards of the Chicago chapter of Women in ETFs and the CFA Society Chicago, and would bring a strong, cross-functional perspective to the FISD Executive Committee.

Lindsey started her career at RiskMetrics Group spending 5 years as a market data analyst and project manager, following MSCI’s acquisition of RiskMetrics a further 10 years as a market data licensing manager and founder of MSCI’s enterprise vendor data reporting team, and the last 3 years leading the Global Market Data team. Lindsey invests in helping young talent in this industry build strong careers from the ground up, like she did. She served as chapter head for MSCI’s Women’s Leadership Forum, launched the first MSCI hackathon, was an “Innovation Coach” working with disparate teams within MSCI on breakthrough problem solving, is a member of MSCI’s Corporate Responsibility Committee, and as part of the FISD Executive Committee would continue to advocate for new training and networking initiatives as AI drives change across our industry.

New Candidate

Kat Tatochenko, President & CRO

Kat is passionate about the business of data. In her 25+ years in financial services, trading and technology, Kat has led and developed sales and product organizations at S&P 500 companies and large private firms.  In the recent years, she has shifted focus to ground-up innovation and started working with FinTech start-ups. Kat worked in the US, Europe, Asia, and throughout private ventures in Africa.

Kat has consistently focused on emerging technologies, which propelled financial services into electronic and digital markets, where data has been at the center of these transformations. She has become an expert in taking new products to market, building and executing business development strategies.

In her 7 years at Bloomberg, Kat helped to grow their data business and managed the overall business relationships between Bloomberg and some of the largest global banks, finding new areas for partnership across all lines of their business.

During the 11-year tenure at Thomson Reuters, Kat has work across the entire spectrum of the organization, from managing FX electronic trading business operations, to working with emerging quantitative, communication and infrastructure technology solutions.

Kat ran the Data Business at MarketAxess. Through implementing new commercial models, contracts, internal systems, creating new data products, the business doubled year on year.

New Candidate

Ian McIntyre, Managing Director, Global Head of Market Data | Luke Ryan, Director, Product Management, FIA

Pico provides a comprehensive global ecosystem of best-in-class technology and services that connect and enable the financial markets community across global electronic markets & asset classes, serving over 400 clients. Pico is a licensed redistributor and NSP across the worlds exchange community, supporting a mix of raw data and normalised data services, co location and connectivity, as well as owning Corvil, the industries go to utility for market data, trading and network analytics. Pico’s client base spans the buy and sell side, technology and data vendors as well as exchanges.

Ian McIntyre is the Managing Director and Global Head of Market Data at Pico Trading. Ian has been participating in FISD for almost fifteen years across three companies, previously being the COO of Vela Trading in Europe and the Global Head of Market Data for ION Markets.

Luke Ryan is Director of Product Management, specialising in Pico’s raw and historical market data products. Before joining Pico, Luke spent fifteen years at Morningstar in Product Management, Compliance and Technology roles specialising in Market Data, and has been an active member of FISD throughout this time.

New Candidate

Patrick Walsh, Head of Foundational Data, EVP | Sam Barber, SVP and Head of Market Data Management

About Rimes

Rimes provides transformative enterprise data management solutions to the global investment community. Driven by our passion for solving the most complex data problems, we provide our clients with investment intelligence that powers more than US$75 trillion in AUM annually. The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions using accurate information and industry-leading technology. Headquartered in New York and London, Rimes serves its global clients through offices in Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific.

Setting the gold standard

Nomination 1: Patrick Walsh, Head of Foundational Data, EVP, Rimes

Patrick has spent over twenty years working in the weeds of the financial data arena he leads all the sourcing, management, compliance, licencing and governance activities of market data for Rimes.  Additionally, he works on developing new product and customer innovation projects; so, let’s be bold and state that there isn’t much Patrick Walsh doesn’t know about financial information!

He started his career in 1997 as an information specialist on global public company filings and disclosures supporting sell-side research teams for a company called Disclosure Ltd. He specialised in researching SEC documentation and provided training to investment banks on regulatory reporting and various US SEC Acts. Patrick then moved to a role with the parent company Thomson Financial, where he spent the next four years. His first engagement was as a product specialist, occupied with the migration of legacy and redundant applications, before taking on a more client-focused role where he led a project exploring the viability of setting up remote support for clients.

In April 2004 he joined Rimes as an account consultant, providing; pre and post-sales support, data analysis, verification and the creation of financial models to replace competitor systems. After a year he was attracted to the bright lights of Standard & Poor’s, joining in a pre-sales role covering index and fundamental data products. During his tenure he surpassed his sales targets by over 140% in 2006 and 160% the following year.

Armed with a rare depth and breadth of experience, Patrick returned to Rimes in 2008 and remains there today. Starting as a product manager, Patrick has been responsible for several new initiatives, including innovative feed-based and data management solutions. In 2013 Patrick was appointed Global Head of Content Management, EVP, and eleven years on, he thoroughly enjoys the range and diversity this role provides. During his time at Rimes, Patrick has cultivated over 900 new information provider relationships and is responsible for bringing on an average of 70 new providers each year. He has grown Rimes’ data coverage catalogue by over 1000%.  Focusing on end-of-day data and its uses in the buy-side community, its safe to assume there is not an index licence out in the market place that Patrick has not reviewed.

His team serves as the conduit between Rimes’ clients and the data providers. The information providers rely on Rimes to be a ‘single voice’ of feedback informed by deep industry knowledge, which they all acknowledge is extremely valuable. His team has built strong trust with information owners for handling their property and respective downstream control and data compliance. Patrick’s leadership has also been instrumental in his team consistently scoring highly in internal employment engagement surveys. He champions internal ESG values, with a particular emphasis on strong Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles.

Patrick has built the Rimes Market Data function from the ground up and prides himself on setting the gold standard for data management. He is responsible for legal, compliance, end customer entitlement, reporting, audit and oversight for all market data licences. Patrick is keenly aware that the rising cost of data is immense, and as new technologies emerge, data providers are continually finding ways to charge more. He also recognizes that the impact of ever-increasing regulation and its inherent complexities further increases the cost burden while acknowledging that information providers face significant costs to keep up with market trends, innovate, and produce new data solutions.

Patrick is ideally suited to be part of the FISD Executive Committee as he brings an unusual blend of expert insight underpinned by practical experience of the financial information landscape. His core values are integrity, fairness and honesty, and as the industry looks to leverage new technologies and data types, his wisdom, refreshing approach and hard-earned experience will be invaluable.

Nomination 2: SVP, Head of Data Services, Sam Barber

As SVP and Head of Enterprise Data Management at Rimes, Sam brings unparalleled expertise in specialist data and client management. His leadership experience includes serving as an Executive Director at S&P Global, working across product management and business development, providing him with deep insight into the evolving needs of the international asset management sector.

Sam is passionate about all things data, combining visionary thinking with a pragmatic, results-driven approach to customer service excellence. Under his guidance, the Rimes EDM team has earned recognition for developing modern, agile solutions that address client needs today while anticipating the demands of tomorrow. Drawing on his extensive product development experience and deep understanding of the industry, Sam’s team delivers fast-to-deploy solutions that create tangible value for buy-side and insurance organizations alike.

A well-regarded speaker and advocate for the transformative power of data, Sam actively promotes the importance of innovative data and technology solutions in driving industry progress. He has a keen awareness of the common challenges hindering global business growth and a strong commitment to collaborative problem-solving. His active role in the State Street and Rimes partnership is a testament to his ability to build robust relationships and deliver shared client success.

Sam’s exceptional expertise, collaborative spirit, and dedication to advancing industry standards make him an ideal candidate to contribute meaningfully to FISD’s goals of addressing complex data and technology challenges.

Incumbent: 6 of 6 meetings attended.

Galaad Baudry, Global Head – Content Acquisition & Rights Management, FIA | Juan Bonilla, Senior Director – Content Acquisition & Rights Management (CARM)

S&P is a long-time active FISD Executive Committee member, and in addition serves on the board of FISD’s parent company, SIIA. S&P further supports FISD’s member activities by being a Global Sponsor for over ten years, and a top sponsor of WFIC. S&P often hosts FISD events in its offices in NYC, and S&P staff speak at and attend FISD member events and working group meetings all over the world.

New Candidate

Bernardo Santiago, CEO | Santiago Armando, COO

Bernardo Santiago – CEO | With over 20 years of market data management experience, Bernardo has held senior market data management positions within leading tier 1 and 2 financial institutions with the US and Canada. Previously, Bernardo held senior market data management role where he defined objectives of the team’s effort to provide cost effective solutions, strategic planning, vendor selection, service provisioning, financial reporting and inventory/cost review and control.

Santiago Armando – COO | With over 15 years of sourcing, procurement, and systems integrations experience, Santiago has worked with various firms helping them to improve their market data functions and processes. His focus is on change management, process improvement, spend management, and automation across the

market data lifecycle.

New Candidate

Alicia VanDeVeer, Director of Project Management, FIA | Trista Burke, Head of Business Development, North America

Alicia VanDeVeer and Trista Burke bring over a combined 45+ years of experience in the market data industry and have been a part of the FISD community since the early part of their careers. Alicia VanDeVeer has been a contributor in the financial industry with focus on the administration, communications, product management and the delivery and operations of market data. As a long-time member of the FISD, Alicia values the role the organization plays in shaping industry standards and best practices. Prior to joining TNS, Alicia worked at HyperFeed Technologies, SAVVIS and CenturyLink/Lumen Technologies where she developed a strong and diverse background in Financial Markets. Trista is responsible for managing TNS’s great client relationships, contributing to the growth of the business, and collaborating with our partners. Trista is a true advocate for the market data industry and ensuring that the community is brought together to support each other and advance the growth of innovation. Prior to TNS, Trista held various roles in client services, service delivery & relationship management at CJC, FIS and ACTIV Financial. 

As long time participants in the FISD, we know the value the FISD brings to the industry and would like the opportunity to contribute to conferences and working sessions using our history and knowledge to help establish best practices, work towards standardization, and address global complexities.  Both Trista and Alicia feel a significant responsibility to ensure that the legacy and knowledge is passed to the next generation through the on-going work of the FISD.

About TNS Financial Markets

TNS is a leading provider of mission-critical infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services for the Financial Markets community. Delivered as a fully managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, TNS provides an unrivalled, global, mission-critical footprint that can significantly help reduce the burdens and complexities attributed to firms ‘going direct.’ Through its ultra-low latency connectivity, its global market data offerings and its dedicated 24x7x365 local support, TNS remains the trusted solution provider to more than 750 counterparties globally.

Incumbent: 6 of 6 meetings attended.

Trip Wadleigh, Global Head, Relationship Management, FIA | Amjad Zoghbi, Head of Solutions Engineering

Trip offers 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, providing leadership and deep subject matter expertise in market data. He has supported the investment process from both front and back office and has worked on the consumer and vendor sides of the industry. Trip currently serves as Chair of the FISD Executive Committee and on the SIIA Board. Prior to this he has served as Vice Chair and Secretary on the FISD Board. Additionally, he has participated in the GOAC, spoken on numerous panels, been a member of the Executive Committee as a Consumer and attended many FISD events over his 25-year involvement with FISD.

Amjad currently leads strategic orchestration of TRG Screen’s integrated suite of solutions. He is a Co-Founder of XPansion (acquired by TRG Screen in 2024 after an extended partnership), and their flagship product XMon. Amjad is a veteran technology innovator and entrepreneur with a track record of building next-generation market data technology solutions for the financial services sector.

New Candidate

Feargal O’Sullivan, CEO | Deirdre Sullivan, Marketing Director, FIA

We are delighted to nominate Feargal O’Sullivan and Deirdre Sullivan for a vendor seat on the FISD Executive Committee.  We think their expertise and leadership strongly align with FISD’s mission and objectives and are confident they will make valuable contributions to the association in general and to the Committee in particular.

Feargal brings 25 years of experience with market data, while at TIBCO, Reuters, the New York Stock Exchange, and now USAM Group, which represents Quincy Data’s wireless offerings.  Feargal has unparalleled leadership experience in enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, and product innovation within financial markets.  While an SVP at NYSE Technologies, he ran the Wombat business line in the Americas, helped develop NYSE’s AWS alternative, and led a global team of 75+ sales executives.  As an entrepreneur and CEO of USAM Group for the last decade, he demonstrated a remarkable ability to bridge diverse market needs, minimize risks for emerging vendors, and build consensus – all qualities that are critical for understanding the issues facing the various FISD constituencies and advancing FISD’s goals, particularly in the areas of best practice development, market data policy, and professional development.

Deirdre’s marketing career spans 20 years with SIX Group’s market data products and another 7 with the multifaceted fintech offerings represented by USAM Group.  Her specialty is simplifying complex concepts to create concise, impactful messaging, which makes her well-equipped to support the Executive Committee’s initiatives, and her ability to identify the core of an issue will be especially valuable as the FISD constituent groups navigate evolving challenges across data standards, regulatory landscapes and more.

We strongly endorse their candidacy and hope you agree that Feargal and Deirdre bring complementary skills and fresh perspectives that will enrich FISD’s work.  Thank you for considering their nomination.

Feargal O’Sullivan LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3CUXLdn

Deirdre Sullivan LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/49ji3JE