Marc Berthoud, Head Exchange Data Strategy, SIX Swiss Exchange
Marc currently serves as Head Exchange Data Strategy for SIX, one of the leading securities market operators in Europe.
Securing high quality data is a central focus area of Marc’s portfolio. Marc drove the modernization of SIX Swiss Exchange market data dissemination infrastructure, improving latency, scalability, timestamping accuracy as well as data content. He recently completed the integration of all BME data sources in the SIX MDDX consolidated feed.
Marc is active in some prominent market data standardisation initiatives. He’s Co-Chairing the FIX Market Model Typology (MMT) Technical Committee. MMT delivers an efficient operational solution for meeting RTS 1 /RTS 2 trade flagging requirements. Most market operators and data vendors have already implemented the MMT logic in their data feeds and display terminals across Europe.
Marc is additionally engaged in several collaborative groups delivering industry wide benefits. He contributes to the FESE Market Data Expert Group as well as to the WFE Exchange and CCP Data Group.
Marc started his career in the securities industry working for the Geneva Stock Exchange during the transition towards full electronic trading. He previously worked in Munich for the energy company EON.
Marc graduated in Economics and holds various industry certifications with strong focus on data management from EDM Council, ICMA, FISD and is a certified Prince 2 project manager.