TickSmith, a global financial technology leader that helps organizations easily organize, distribute and commercialize their data, has appointed Barry Raskin as its Head of Data Practice. Raskin is a globally recognized thought leader in the financial services and management consulting industries.
Raskin will establish and develop TickSmith’s Data Practice to assist current and future clients in developing and optimizing their data commercialization journey through strategic licensing, pricing, marketing and packaging of their untapped data assets. The Practice will leverage a defined data brokerage framework to help maximize the value of TickSmith’s Data Web Store.
Raskin’s extensive market data experience and global network enables him and his team to provide TickSmith clients with a wide range of consultative services related to data selling. Prior to joining TickSmith, Raskin spent 28 years as the Managing Director of the Americas for SIX Financial Information. Most recently, Raskin served as the Market Data Practice Managing Director at Jordan and Jordan (J&J), a New-York based consulting firm.
In 2017, Raskin was awarded the Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award by the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) for his contributions to the financial information industry over the past 25 years. Further, he was inducted into the Inside Market Data Hall of Fame in 2013.
“The ways organizations package, sell and buy data has evolved. Firms who are not leveraging data as a valuable asset are missing out on significant opportunities to evolve their brands, organize their data internally and externally and grow new revenue streams,” said Raskin. “Too often companies don’t know where — or how — to begin their data monetization journey. I’m excited to create the practice that can help them realize their goals.”
Raskin joins TickSmith following the company’s recent $20M Series A Funding round, led by Investissement Québec and followed by Fonds de solidarité FTQ, CME Ventures and Databricks Ventures, with additional funding from existing investors Anges Québec, Anges Québec Capital and Illuminate Financial Management.
“We welcome Barry at a significant growth period for TickSmith,” said Francis Wenzel, TickSmith CEO. “With Barry’s help, we will help firms of all sizes and industries realize the power of their data.”
On May 17, 2022, Raskin will be a featured panelist at the North American Financial Information Summit 2022 hosted by Waters Technology. The panel, titled “Market Consolidation: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” will cover the broad implications of market consolidation in the market data space and the impact, opportunities and drawbacks for vendors. The panel will be presented virtually and live.
To learn more about Raskin’s hire, communicate with Raskin, or to learn more about how TickSmith can help your firm realize its data, please contact via this link: https://www.ticksmith.com/about/contact/.
About TickSmith
TickSmith’s mission is to enable organizations to easily distribute and monetize their data whether it is for internal users, private members or external customers. Selling data should be as simple as selling products in an e-commerce store and TickSmith simplifies the online data shopping and distribution experience for data buyers and provides the necessary tools for data producers to connect, package, unify and monetize their data.
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