Debra Walton-Ruskin Email & Phone Number

New Milford, Ct, Us

London, England, Gb

As member of the LSEG Executive Team post Refinitiv acquisition, led the entire Go to Market and revenue synergies strategy and execution plan for Refinitiv/LSEG integration setting the foundation for strong future growth.Concurrently led all customer relationships, sales and partnership revenue across more than 70 countries for the $6.5B Analytics division as well as the formation and Leadership of a new Group-wide Strategic Accounts function.

New York, Ny, Us

Member of the board of TradeWeb during its highly successful transition from multi bank consortium to Nasdaq listed public company.

London, England, Gb

Refinitiv was created post Financial & Risk business divestiture from Thomson Reuters in Oct 2018 becoming one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure as a pioneer in financial technology, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries.As Refinitiv’s Chief Revenue Officer, integral role in the due diligence and integration of the Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv deal, and in the formation, launch, strategic transformation, and growth of the newly created Refinitiv with Blackstone as majority investor creating $7B in valuation in 2 years enabling sale and transition to LSEG for $27B.

Toronto, On, Ca

Member of Executive Team that led a multiyear transformation and turnaround of challenged Financial & Risk business post Thompson Financial/Reuters merger and 2008 financial crisis. Reversed declining revenue trends and delivered positive growth, increased EBITDA margins double digit while driving innovation in products and technology platforms, positioning the Financial & Risk business for spinoff and sale to Blackstone becoming Refinitiv in 2018.As P&L Leader of the $6.5B financial division and the top Product Executive/Global Leader of the Enterprise Center/Innovation Lab, had end‐to‐end responsibility for strategic direction and delivery of Thomson Reuters' data, analytics, and tech workflow solutions to power the world's financial markets. Successfully drove transformation from a product-centric company with standalone offerings to an open platform and commercial/product strategy while instituting significant tech innovation.

Toronto, On, Ca

Assumed Executive Leadership of all Data Operations globally and transformed a 9,000 person global organization seen as a people-intensive, backroom function into a team of all-stars and core competency through ground up innovation and massive automation of the entire of data process.

Toronto, On, Ca

Led the Enterprise data business serving the world’s largest asset managers. Delivered significant organic transformation in product development, data quality, system/process simplification, execution capabilities, operational excellence, and team reorganization and delivered double digit top line growth.

Toronto, On, Ca

Created new global sales organization and optimized structure and functioning across all 3 global regions. Drove gross sales from 5% to 20% in less 2 years from new client acquisition, cross sell and upsell to existing customers.

Toronto, On, Ca

Head of channel marketing for the $8B company, a major global role to optimize go to market impact for all products across Wealth, Enterprise, Asset Management, Trading in every geography (America, Europe, Asia). Led the creation/management of a global Customer Advisory Board which successfully created a direct dialogue between customers and senior business and product executives resulting in a sustained pivot to customer centric growth.

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Member of Executive Leadership Team that led large scale integration of 43 disparate companies and operations into one business to better serve the largest financial institutions in the world. Guided overall business transformation from that of a relatively unknown provider and declining business into an integrated global financial information and technology leader recognized as 1 of the top 3 providers to the global financial markets.As President of Strategic Global Accounts, Integrated sales teams of all market segments into one high performing global team and created Global Accounts for the top 20% of customers that brought in 80% of revenue.

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Turned around declining revenues in the core Investment Banking segment. Drove significant commercial and product innovation resulting in pivot from 3% decline to 6% top line growth in 3 years.