Ex-Alacra, Fitch Exec Samuels Moves to Bloomberg

Samuels was previously vice president of reference data solutions at Alacra, prior to which he was chief executive of Clearpath Immigration, a provider of electronic filing software for immigration forms, and also served as interim head of product management at Worldpay, was executive vice president of strategy and operations at online food delivery portal Dotmenu, and was co-founder and chief product officer of People Capital, a peer-to-peer student loan funding platform.

Before starting People Capital in 2008, Samuels spent four years as managing director of global product development at Fitch Ratings, prior to which he spent seven years as vice president of product management, market development and business development at Standard & Poor's, and held strategy consulting roles at Gemini Consulting (now Capgemini) and Arthur Andersen. In addition to his current role, Samuels also serves as an advisor to several technology startups.