Kevin Hopkins
Director, Global Head of Market Data Commercial Mgmt, Barclays
Kevin Hopkins has worked at Barclays for 9 years and is currently Director, Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management, where his team is responsible for vendor contracts and relationships. Kevin has worked in the financial industry since college, working part time in operations at Merrill Lynch and moving to voice communications upon graduation. Kevinthen moved to Prudential Securities and eventually Prudential Equity Group. Kevin worked at Prudential for 20 years in a variety of Distributed Technology and Market Data project and people management roles. In 2007 upon closure of Prudential Equity Group where Kevin was managing market data, desktop and trading support, Kevin moved on to Lehman Brothers as a Deal Manager and migrated over to Barclays as a Market Data Vendor Manager in 2008 , where he was subsequently promoted to US Commercial Team Lead before moving into his current role. Kevin graduated from St. Francis College (Brooklyn) with a degree in Business Management and later obtained a PMP certification.