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Ravenpack Strengthens Management Team With New Appointment
NEW YORK, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- RavenPack International, a leading global provider of news analytics technology and content, today announced the appointment of Don Williams as Managing Director, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Welcoming Mr. Williams to RavenPack, Armando Gonzalez CEO and President of RavenPack said, "We are pleased to have Don on board with us to drive our sales and marketing initiatives forward. The addition of Don strengthens the leadership team at RavenPack and we are looking forward to tapping his broad experience in providing technology and content solutions to financial markets." Mr. Williams has held senior executive positions with Reuters and McGraw-Hill/ Standard and Poor's, two of the world's largest electronic publishers. In addition to his publishing experience, Don has also held key executive management positions with several venture backed technology and content companies and helped raise over US$50 million in venture capital. "Don is an agile manager whose direct experience with our partners and target markets will really help take RavenPack to its next level of growth. With a strong core of experienced executives, I am really looking forward to executing on our plans over the coming months," said Mr. Gonzalez. RavenPack's target markets include quantitative portfolio managers executing on algorithmic trading programs and risk managers. RavenPack's business partners include the world's largest electronic publishers, and a number of select technology providers delivering modeling solutions, trading visualizations and low latency trading workflow applications. "RavenPack is uniquely positioned to provide greater clarity in extremely volatile markets. Current market performance is clearly dislocated from underlying fundamentals. News analytics provide valuable signals that bridge that gap," said Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams has been working in US financial markets for over a decade and holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He will be based out of New York. ABOUT RAVENPACK RavenPack is a leading provider of news analytics and machine-readable content. The company specializes in linguistic analysis of high volume, real-time news from high-end newswire services. In finance, RavenPack provides dynamically tagged news feeds and analytics that meet the accuracy and low latency requirements of today's markets. For more information about RavenPack visit http://www.ravenpack.com info@ravenpack.com
