Bob Cumberbatch Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Head of Master Data Management: Benchmarks, ESG, Asset Pricing, Security Reference, OTC Derivative Pricing, Enterprise Product & Account Data

London, Gb

Providing investment data management services

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 Data management projects: data vendor usage/supplier review, data quality & cleansing, documenting procedures, process automation, counterparty exposure reporting Enterprise data architecture design for the automation of data processing Root cause problem diagnosis, resolution and improvement projects working with senior fund managers, performance analysis, risk management, compliance, finance, ops and IT development Support business with instrument setup automation and data management in SimCorp Dimension and Charles River investment & order management platforms

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Designed and implemented a data governance and data management programme in support of its investment management operation spanning front office trading, its middle office performance, compliance & risk management functions and its back office settlement and valuation functions across equities and fixed income.Supported the day-to-day pricing, valuations, corporate actions, dividends, income, counterparty static data management and processing in OMS & EMS platforms.

London, Gb

Refined the index data management operational processes for integrating and consolidating FTSE’s combined index data operations following the acquisition of Russell Indices by FTSE. Planned the approach for the automation and consolidation of data processing of cross asset-class instrument data spanning pricing, forex, descriptive data, instrument classification, dividends and corporate actions data received from multiple data vendors and sources. Documented index data management operational needs for data.

New York, Ny, Us

RIMES are a managed data services provider specialising in feeding performance measurement and management systems with benchmark data.Contributed to a Solvency II project for the exchanging of enriched instrument data between Asset and Fund Managers, their Third Party Administrators and Insurance asset owning clients.

London, Gb

Conducted a risk-based gap analysis of its business and critical operational processes by evaluating FTSE’s readiness against the IOSCO Principles and draft EC benchmarking regulations. Recommended approaches to fill governance gaps and to mitigate operational risks. FTSE published its IOSCO Compliance Statement which was externally assured.Participated in FTSE’s Index Governance Board

Bob was Head of Regulatory and Industry Affairs at Interactive Data. In this role, Bob focused on examining how the company’s products and services needed to evolve as the industry is shaped by changing regulatory, market and client requirements. Previously, Bob was European business lines director, Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data for more than seven years. He joined Interactive Data in June 1998 as production director to run the company's IT operations. He was responsible for the mission critical IT infrastructure with a 24 x 7 data centre, a 24 x 6 help desk, technical support group, network support and project planning. From January 2003, Bob led an international real-time integration programme aimed at integrating the then newly-acquired ComStock's infrastructure into that of Interactive Data. Bob also led Interactive Data's cross-organisation MiFID project team.

Planned, led and executed the strategic development and profitable expansion of the European pricing data, reference data and risk/compliance data businesses. Divisional Board member responsible for product development plans, product reliability, product infrastructure, future business opportunities and the product development process. Media trained public speaker.  MiFID: Delivered the organisation-wide Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) business development programme. This involved identifying and delivering service enhancements for trading room solutions, pricing and reference data feeds for asset management including transaction reporting data services and web solutions. Solvency II: Defined, designed and delivered a Solvency II data service to enable asset managers and their third party administrators to supply enriched pricing & evaluation data and reference data to their insurance clients.Achieved double digit profitable growth through regulatory data service developments including for: Basel II & III; EU Saving Directive; Business Legal Entity structures and relationships to instruments; Solvency II and the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). Two Tier 1 banks were able to reduce their regulatory capital provisions by c. £160m respectively. Led the pricing, reference data business product and marketing teams. Identified and developed strategic alliances with content and application software partners. Created and delivered educational presentations for sales staff, for customers and for industry groups regarding the impact and consequences of financial regulations on financial instruments and on customer segments; especially on asset and fund managers. Solicited customer requirements including managing client workshops to facilitate requirements gathering for data needs. Established service delivery strategy through prioritising service and product development schedules.

Planned, led and executed the integration and consolidation programme of four separate real-time data businesses following an acquisition of a real-time data business. Created and managed the overall programme and individual projects’ budgets for both capital purchase, expenditure and for tracking expenditure savings. Responsible for the creation and delivery of Programme Board / Board of Directors presentations and progress reports. $10m investment programme generating $6m of annual recurring savings.Consolidated four businesses’ real-time data processing systems into one capable of supporting all business needs; Consolidated four data collection networks into one capable of supporting all business needs; Consolidated four data licences into one capable of supporting all business needs

To lead a mission critical 24x7 IT Operation for a global data vendor providing data services primarily to investment firms, third party administrators, custodians and asset servicing functions. Divisional director. Transformed the data service product delivery infrastructure making it more efficient, cost effective and enabling the business to innovate and provide more data products and services Designed and implemented continuous improvement programme utilising ITIL service management Performed IT due diligence on acquisitions and divestments Budget management of annual IT and c.100 staff budgets for both capital purchase and expenditure totalling £10MM pa. capex and £1MM pa expense for a 24x7 mission critical data centre operation, customer technical helpdesk, network and systems operations providing mission-critical data services to asset and investment managers world-wide

New York City, Us

Responsible for the management, support, performance and capacity planning for exchange traded real-time market data collection, processing and distribution infrastructure within EMEA. Negotiation and management of IT service, comms and supplier contracts. Created and managed an annual £6MM capital expenditure and department budgets. Established a highly skilled 3rd line support team. Provided operations staff with training and development. Established a Change Control Board to implement IT changes safely. Published budgeting guidelines based on business strategy for Operations managers across EMEA.Architected a data dissemination application that permitted a non-linear network capacity growth as the numbers of customers grew but without sacrificing data quality or reliability.

Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of mission critical trading room, dealing and communications network sites serving the financial services industry in the City of London.

London, Gb

Advanced trouble shooter for mission critical digital communications networks with a responsibility to “get it fixed.” This entailed inspiring customer confidence and calmness in a customer relationship that had often become very difficult.Responsible for resolving communications issues relating to the move of the Salomon Brothers’ trading room to Victoria Plaza from the City of London.

Master Of Science - Msc, Networked Information Engineering

Higher National Certificate (Hnc), Communications Engineering