WBC Chapters Co-Chair

Ivette Collazo is a Director, Head of Market Data within Hudson Bay Capital’s Technology group where she will lead market data strategy to align with the firm’s strategic initiatives. Ivette brings over 30 years’ experience in the data and technology industry.

Most recently, Ivette was a Managing Director at State Street Corporation within the Investment Services division where she led the enterprise market data strategy.

In 1993, Ivette started her career at Bloomberg LP and ascended through the ranks to lead regional sales and account management handling key institutional buyside clients. In addition, Ivette was part of Bloomberg’s intrapreneurial team that founded Bloomberg’s fixed income electronic trading eco- system Bloomberg BondTrader.

In 2001, Ivette joined BrokerTec, a cross industry fin-tech electronic trading venture led by the world’s largest investment banks. There, Ivette was part of the leadership team and oversaw its Marketing, Media and Market Data strategy. Post-acquisition by ICAP in 2004, Ivette continued to oversee Marketing and Media Relationships and led the Americas market data business by developing commercialization strategies and overseeing ICAP’s channel partner relationships.

In 2010, Ivette was at BlackRock within its Index and Data Solutions team as the Global Head of the Relationship Management supporting enterprise, strategic data initiatives and oversaw the management of the firm’s market data vendors and executed the firm’s vendor strategy.

Ivette graduated from West Virginia University with a BSBA, emphasis in Finance and is fluent in Spanish.

Ivette has been on the Board of the Women’s Bond Club since 2017 has served in Co-Chair positions inclusive of Corporate Outreach and Technology. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Chapters Committee which is developing the expansion strategy of the WBC throughout various geographies. In 2004, Ivette was recognized as a WBC Rising Star award recipient.