Marcy Pike

Marcy Pike was introduced to market data when she began working for John Rutherfurd, Jr., President of Interactive Data Corporation in 1988. That early exposure sparked a lifelong passion — she quickly immersed herself in the operational side of the business, building a foundation that would carry her through a career of building and transforming market data teams at The Boston Company, Harvard Management, Wellington Management, and Fidelity Investments. Across these investment firms, she brought a comprehensive and strategic lens to the market data practice — developing firm-wide strategies where none had existed, aligning disparate organizations around a common approach, and ensuring talented people were in roles where they could thrive. Her ability to connect stakeholders across operations, procurement, legal, compliance, and technology around a unified market data strategy equipped executive leaders with the insight and context needed to understand and effectively steward their market data investments. Her teams built resilient systems, fostered cross-enterprise collaboration, and integrated innovative processes, with her remit often expanding into vendor management, data governance, and software management standards.

Her career is marked by setting new industry standards: she pioneered fee-based SLAs with top-tier vendors, establishing data accuracy and timely delivery as contractual obligations with financial consequences for non-performance. She championed a compensation benchmark survey ensuring market data compensation aligned to the unique skill set these roles demand and led the development of a usage rights curriculum ensuring developers, product managers, and operations teams correctly navigate market data rights in mission-critical systems. Her expertise and industry engagement extended to the regulatory level: with Fidelity and industry leaders, she provided market data education and insight in SEC-invited sessions and served as a panelist at the landmark Roundtable on Market Data and Market Access in Washington, D.C. Since retiring, she continues to contribute as a consultant, partnering with investment firms to develop data lake strategies to support agentic AI capabilities and alternative investment strategies.

For over 25 years, FISD has been an invaluable source of knowledge, partnership, and direction for Marcy. As a Consumer Constituency Group member, she worked on vendor management and data usage best practices and led a consumer firm survey providing valuable insight on market data organizational structures and administration practices. Marcy has served multiple terms in leadership roles on the FISD Executive Committee and the SIIA Board of Directors, where her passion has been aligning FISD and SIIA strategic planning and execution with membership needs and goals. She founded the Buy Side Market Data Managers Forum to advance buy-side collaboration and improve the practice of market data management across the industry. Throughout her career she has also been a committed advocate for growing, advancing, and supporting women in data and technology. Marcy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Philosophy from Simmons College, Boston.