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.

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.

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.

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.

US

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.

US

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.