New York Summer Data Summit 2024

Charlie Whitlock brings over 25 years of financial markets experience to his role as Head of America's Distribution at XTX Markets. Joining the firm in April 2023, Charlie has a distinguished career in the industry, previously serving as Managing Director and Head of Americas AES Sales at Credit Suisse.

His extensive background also includes senior roles at ITG and J.P. Morgan, where he led America’s Electronic Sales.  Charlie's expertise spans buy-side services, data analysis, sales management, and low latency trading. His leadership and insight continue to drive innovation and excellence in electronic trading and distribution at XTX Markets.

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Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, a market data provider with over 4000 users. Databento provides a simpler, faster way to customize and access market data, allowing users to get data almost instantly. In 2012, Christina founded Domeyard LP, a hedge fund focused on high frequency trading (HFT) that traded up to $7.1 billion USD per day. Christina is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a standing committee of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees), charged with raising critical financial resources to uphold the Institute's academic rigor, promote student life, and advance global initiatives.

From 2018 to 2023, she co-chaired the Development Committee and eventually became Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls, bringing financial literacy education to underserved populations across the US. Christina also sits on the Board of Directors of The Financial Executives Alliance (FEA) Hedge Fund Group, drove entrepreneurship efforts at the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association (MIT SBAA), and served on the U.S. Non-Profit Boards Committee of 100 Women in Finance.

Although "X Under X" lists are a gimmick, she’ll admit that Forbes 30 Under 30 made a positive impact on her life by giving her a community - friends who dragged her out of bed during the lowest days of her life. Christina holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT and is a CAIA Charterholder.

Dan is Founder of It's Pronounced Data, a consulting and media business focused on the data and information services sector. His career experience spans startups through Fortune 500 organizations, including senior roles at Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC) as Executive Director of Data Strategy, FactSet (NYSE: FDS) as SVP, Senior Director of Partnerships, and Datavore Labs as CEO leading the company to acquisition by Above Data in 2020. In addition to his executive roles, Dan serves as an Advisor to multiple data companies including Bobsled (data delivery), Exabel (data platform), Gulp Data (data valuation), and Intangiable (IP data).

Danny West leads a team of attorneys at Two Sigma that advise the firm’s research and engineering teams on how to appropriately acquire and leverage big data in the financial markets.

He is involved in every aspect of the firm’s data onboarding process, including diligencing novel alternative datasets and developing scalable data and privacy-related policies, procedures and controls.

Prior to joining Two Sigma, Danny was assistant general counsel at American International Group, Inc. (AIG), working with the firm’s big data and science teams to develop cutting-edge healthcare / financial tools and technologies, often utilizing strategically de-identified and/or aggregated data.

Dmitry (Mitya) Miller is a Senior Vice President and General Manager of Aquata, Arcesium’s comprehensive self-service data platform purpose built for the investment management industry. Mitya is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Aquata business, including P&L ownership, customer base growth, customer delivery and engagement, and product roadmap.

Previously, Mitya was the head of Arcesium’s Technical Relationship Management and Forward Deployed Teams where he led global teams of solution architects, software engineers, project managers, and data specialists delivering solutions to our clients’ most complex business and technology challenges.

Mitya has over 20 years of experience building software platforms for portfolio management, valuation, security and reference data mastering, and enterprise data management. In addition, he is an expert in investment management technology, cloud architecture, and the data landscape in asset management.

Duncan W. Robinson is the Director of Quantitative Insights and Data Science at Allspring Global Investments, a data scientist, a former options market-maker and the creator of several patent-pending inventions covering alternative data, including ESG, SDGs, data privacy and signal evaluation. In this capacity, he leads a team that is responsible for innovation, research, risk measurement, regime analysis and exploring alternative data using quantitative and statistical learning techniques.

Eliza Raphael is the Head of Data Services at Jump Trading, LLC, a quantitative trading firm, where she is focused on continuing to drive the firm’s strategic data initiatives forward.  Prior to Jump, Eliza was Head of Market Data Services at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, LLC, a global multi-manager hedge fund. Eliza oversaw a team that was responsible for the strategy and sourcing of market data, spanning both traditional and alternative data within a variety of asset classes and regions. In addition to her role within market data, Eliza was an active leader in Schonfeld’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Alliance.

Earlier in her career, Eliza spent over 13 years at Nasdaq where her various roles included market data sales, product management, and business development. Her last role within Nasdaq was as Head of Alternative Data Partnerships for the Nasdaq Analytics Hub which acquired Quandl in late 2018. Eliza began her career at Bloomberg where she held both product and sales roles in New York and London.

Eliza’s extensive career spanning market data vendors, exchanges and the buy-side provides her a unique perspective into the market data landscape. Her experiences with alternative data, acquiring datasets for Nasdaq and Quandl as well as end-user consumers at Schonfeld, gives her insight into the many sides of the alternative data space.

Eliza is a graduate of James Madison University with a double major in International Business and Spanish. She currently lives in Westchester with her husband Adam and her two children, Jake and Lily.

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Eugene Miculet is a senior data strategist at WorldQuant, where his focus is on sourcing alternative data for the firm’s quantitative and quantamental strategies across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining WorldQuant in 2017, he held numerous positions at Bloomberg, most recently as an equity and derivatives product specialist. Eugene holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MA in Quantitative Methods from Columbia University, and a BA in Economics from Clark University.

Farah started in the alternative data space by providing patent intelligence to public and private equity investors. In conjunction, Farah worked with corporate research & development departments from a broad range of industries.

Farah has an LLB in Law from Durham University.

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