AWS Taps Data Vet Barnes for ISV Partnerships

Data and trading systems industry veteran Ken Barnes has joined Amazon Web Services as partnership development manager for financial services independent software vendors, responsible for supporting ISVs in developing and executing cloud strategies. This includes helping vendors understanding how AWS can support their business needs, training them on cloud technologies, advising them on how they may need to change their commercial subscription models to capitalize on cloud delivery, and assisting with go-to-market campaigns and business development.

Barnes was most recently SVP of corporate development at IT and hosted services provider Options, prior to which he spent four years at NYSE Euronext, including as SVP of its capital markets community platform, and general manager of SFTI connectivity and co-location. He joined NYSE via its 2008 acquisition of Wombat Financial Software, where he was VP of business and planning. Before that, he was marketing director for Americas enterprise information products at Reuters, and director of capacity trading systems at Nextset Software, prior to which he was global manager of datafeeds and integration at Bridge Information Systems.

In his new role, Barnes reports to Nitin Gupta, global head of financial services solutions and partners at AWS.