Qineqt Expands NY Team to Fuel Growth

Ed Crespy joined the vendor last month as data architect, responsible for working with the vendor’s product and data development teams to improve Qineqt’s data model and API product, reporting to chief product officer Sara Noble. 

Crespy was most recently a senior consultant at Consumer Evaluation Systems, working for various clients, including Jefferies—where he worked on a middleware system to connect trading systems to a new back-office system, and created a margin calculation system that captured data from four trading systems into a single database for computing margin calls—and research generation software provider BlueMatrix, where Noble was director of product strategy until 2014.

He was previously chief technology officer at long-distance internet phone service provider OneStopTel, and also served as technical director at recruiter Solomon Page Group, helping to set qualifications for technical placements and pre-screen technical candidates. Before, he was a senior consultant at technology consultancy Vivat, where he developed a FLEX application framework, and spent 18 years at Bloomberg, including as director of equity software development, responsible for equity fundamentals, earnings estimates and research, mutual funds, equity indexes and price history.

At Bloomberg, he also worked alongside Noble, who held various roles at the vendor between 1995 and 2010. “A lot of what he worked on at Bloomberg was creating workflow tools around collecting and entering data, and working on the enterprise layer behind the Bloomberg terminal,” which will contribute to enhancing Qineqt’s data model, Noble says.

The vendor also recently appointed Daniel Freuman and Sunil Arora as advisors. Freuman is co-founder of GF Capital, a private investment firm focusing on private syndicated deals in the global metals and mining industries. He was previously a senior executive in Glencore’s iron ore division, responsible for mergers and acquisitions, mining investments and strategic deals, and also served as an analyst at Perry Capital and JP Morgan. Qineqt chief operating officer Jeremy Baksht says this experience will prove invaluable as the vendor builds out its coverage of data on companies in the metals, mining and industrials markets.

Meanwhile, Arora will employ his expertise in setting best practice methodologies to ensure the company remains “efficient and optimized” as it continues to grow its global operations. Arora was previously director of fund partnerships at investment offering platform Artivest, was a business development executive at investment management platform vendor Addepar, and was an associate vice president at Bessemer Trust.