Marc Alvarez

Marc Alvarez is an accomplished information services marketing and management executive with over three decades' international experience spent between the United States, Britain and Canada. He is a highly effective industry expert and innovator in financial services data content and applications; with primary focus on creating value added business applications leveraging state-of-the art data science capabilities and technologies to drive business growth and efficiency. With international experience spent between Toronto, London, Vancouver and New York Marc is consistently at the leading edge of execution and delivery at enterprise scale across all aspects of data management, application delivery and go to market.

Prior to this experience Marc lead the build out and go-to-market for a new global scale managed data service to power quantitative analytics and statistical modelling for the TMX Group. From April 2008 –October 2014 he served as the Senior Director, Pricing & Reference Data with Interactive Data Corporation where he developed and brought to market the innovative Apex information services product line.

Publications include Market Data Explained: A Practical Guide to Global Capital Markets Information (Elsevier, 2006) and two chapters in the Handbook of Financial Data and Risk Information (Cambridge University Press, 2014).