Paul Esposito

About Paul Esposito

I am a senior data executive with proven success in building and managing scalable, global reference data sets with an emphasis on fintech. I\'ve been part of two start-up companies as they evolved into growth stage success stories. I’ve worked across the full spectrum of stakeholders, from technology, product, sales and finance to end-user clients. I operate effectively in both matrix and functional organizational structures, in start-up environments and multi-national organizations. I’m adept at managing across cultures, as I’ve managed, and continue to lead, large operations teams spread across the globe.CapitalIQ:• Led hundreds of data leaders maintaining foundational elements of Capital IQ. Oversaw all Capital IQ data expansion initiatives from diligence to delivery, while supporting systems with analysts manually entering data, bots, and millions of updates from third-parties. • Established partnerships across the business with integrity and transparency, proud of the friendships established as a mentor to hundreds of talented data experts now moving mountains of data across multiple industries. • Cross-Reference – Centralized all 3rd-party symbology to be PIT with consistent policy across domains. Reference Data products saw double-digit revenue growth while winning several industry awards.• Assessed vendors, led diligence, ran buy/build scenarios and designed an end-to-end 3rd-party ingestion playbook that runs from diligence to (gasp!) cost and ROI metrics. • Collaborated across Kensho and leadership to fund and lead key projects. Stood up a commercialized, market-leading linking and concordance solution for both traditional and alternative data sets. Grew company master from 500k to 28mm, saving $5mm+ while generating millions in direct and indirect revenue.• Wrote \'epics\' and lean business cases, partnered with stewards to build services for auto-extraction/transformation/linking around PIT expansion, efficiency and quality.• Other Areas: M&A, PE/VC, ownership, documents, business relationships, ran operations, set up dozens of teams from scratch and came perilously close to building a ticker plant. Regardless of the content at hand, the goals remain the same- Turn data assets into a competitive advantage- Candidly present solutions- Commit to being a partner that colleagues, both up and down the organization, look forward to engagingSpecialties: Data Governance, Operations, Off-Shore Resourcing, Fixed Income, Index, Credit Ratings, Big Data, Metadata Management, Reference Data, Enterprise Solutions

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Strategy

   FactSet

   Nov 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Continued progress around agent-led extraction, ETL, AI efficiency gains, modernized tooling and expansion of team capabilities specific to buy v. build analysis, vendor comparisons and AGILE-led prioritization processes. Expanded remit to include off-platform delivery (feeds/API/MCP)) and related data readiness, pipeline health and ASV/margin analysis.

Education

• Eastern Connecticut State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance & MIS

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Data Quality
• Data Aggregation
• Organizational Leadership
• Trading Systems
• D&B
• Team Leadership
• Strategic Leadership
• Fixed Income
• Financial Services
• Hedge Funds
• Leadership Development
• Data Integration
• Analytics
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Bloomberg
• Capital Markets
• Market Data
• Thought Leadership
• Lean Thinking
• Reference Data
• Financial Markets
• Investment Banking
• Capital Iq
• International Organizations
• Financial Modeling
• Business Analysis
• Organizational Design
• Equities
• Equity Research
• Snl
• Offshoring
• Data Migration