Senior Director, Pricing & Reference Data, Interactive Data Corporation 

Stephen Koch has over 30 years’ experience working in many aspects of the financial services industry, from retail brokerage to hedge fund administration and servicing. Currently, he is a Senior Director at Interactive Data Corp working on Product Development for the Pricing, Reference Data (PRD) group. He is primarily responsible for discovering the intersection of clients’ enterprise-wide reference data needs and PRD’s ability to deliver profitable solutions in support of those needs.

Prior to Interactive Data, Stephen spent 8 years as Global Head of Market Data for Citco Fund Services. Citco Fund Services, a division of the Citco Group, is one of the leading hedge fund administrators in the industry.  At Citco, Stephen was responsible for establishing and implementing the firm’s market and reference data vision. Stephen also led a team of 11 market data analysts responsible for determining and communicating the market and reference data needs of the Citco Fund Services business offices around the world. Stephen has extensive knowledge of both listed and OTC instruments. He has broad experience working with IT, Marketing, Sales and clients developing new data and product offerings for hedge funds.

Prior to joining Citco, Stephen spent 7 years at Fidelity Investments, National Financial Service (NFS) where he was the Director of the Security Master, Pricing and Margin Documentation Departments. Before joining Fidelity, Stephen held various positions in securities operations and margining for Kidder Peabody, Thomson McKinnon and Shearson/American Express.