Leadership
QUODD is a NewSpring Holdings platform company, the industry’s leading platform focused exclusively on connecting and perfecting the tech infrastructure of the new wealth experience. QUODD plays leading roles in wealth management, fintech, financial advisory, data management, broker-dealer and corporate finance.
Executive Team
Combining a wealth of,
expertise in both technology
and finance
QUODD is a leading global provider of market data on demand. Servicing nearly 2,000 institutions across the financial services industry, we offer our clients access to over 250 billion data points across global equities, fixed income, indices, options, futures, and end-of-day pricing from more than 150 international exchanges, via one of our two key product sets: QX Digital Platform and QX Marketplace.
Powered by our proprietary technology and cloud-based infrastructure, we enable customers to source tailor-made data products in formats of their choice, anytime, anywhere. Together with our flexible pricing model, transparent billing process, and world-class support team, QUODD is putting control back in the hands of data consumers across the end-to-end fulfillment journey.
Bob Ward | Chief Executive Officer
Bob is a financial services executive with over 25 years of experience in leadership positions across the financial technology space. Before joining Financeware as CEO, Bob was the CRO for VMS. Prior to VMS, he was COO of the SunGard (now FIS) Wealth Management business. Bob has served as Board Member for Envestnet Retirement Solutions, Wealthcare Capital Management, Merriman Holdings, and FinaConnect. He currently serves as an advisor to Jiffy.ai and Saxon Securities. Bob received a BA degree from Colby College and earned his MBA with distinction from Bentley University.
David Kirk | Chief Technology Officer
David has 20 years of experience leading development efforts across a wide range of companies from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms. His experience covers web, mobile, cloud transformation, and advanced market data applications. His previous companies include Avanade, IBM, and Tradestation Technologies, and David was most recently a founding partner at Zeal, a technology consulting company focused on cloud-native solutions to Fortune 100 firms. David’s experience and leadership in digital transformation will be instrumental to QUODD and its clients as we build upon our existing platforms and deliver new innovative products to fuel market intelligence.
Marguerite Peters | Chief Operating Officer
Marguerite is responsible for overseeing operations and technology across all data products. Marguerite has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, specifically in brokerage, retirement and trust operations, as well as client delivery of services and software. Prior to joining VMS, Marguerite held executive leadership positions at Backstop Solutions Group and SunGard.
Max Broedlow | Chief Financial Officer
Max has over 20 years of experience as a CFO in both small and large software and services companies in the healthcare and financial services sectors. Before joining QUODD, Max held CFO roles at private equity/venture-backed companies, including Chowly, Q-Centrix, and Strata Decision Technology. He was formerly the division CFO of SunGard Financial Systems. Additionally, he has served as a fractional CFO for multiple other companies in recent years. Max started his career at KPMG as an auditor, working with various clients, including technology and software companies. He holds a BS in Accounting from Illinois State University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Scott Kirschbaum | Chief Revenue Officer
Scott is a financial services executive with over 20 years of expertise in market data sales across pricing, valuations, reference data and indices. He recently led the Global Strategic Accounts team at S&P Global, played a pivotal role in North American Sales at IHS Markit, and managed the secondary loan pricing service at Reuters. Throughout his career, Scott has been a driving force behind sales innovation. Scott received a Bachelor’s Degree from Dowling College.
Justin Van Til | Senior Vice President, Product & Strategy
Justin provides 25 years of experience leading new product innovation initiatives at the nexus of financial technology and wealth management servicing. Prior to joining QUODD in 2017, Justin has led strategic partnerships for platforms servicing the institutional asset management, investment advisory, and retail segments. As a prior leader at Smartleaf, New Frontier Advisors, Dalbar and an advisor to trading solutions for commodities and portfolio management, Justin brings that expertise to provide QUODD’s clients and partners solutions that are the highest value and on a path to digital transformation. Justin earned a BA in Economics from Colby College (1995) and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College (2004).
Gary Grochmal | Senior Vice President, Head of Client Success
Gary has more than 15 years of experience in the market data industry and has had many roles at QUODD, starting in finance, and moving through technology, and operations. Today Gary is the Senior Vice President of Customer Success at QUODD. Prior to joining QUODD Gary worked in both public and private accounting for several years. Gary received his BS from Villanova University.
QUODD is a Private Equity Held Company
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Fully equipped and incentivized to lead QUODD to success
NewSpring Holdings, based in Radnor, PA currently owns QUODD. NewSpring is made up a team of 70+ professionals, including operators, former CEOs, and investors across the industries in which they invest.
They employ a long-term buy-and-build strategy. They partner and engage with companies at every stage of their lifecycle in industries like technology, healthcare, consumer and business services, and manufacturing.
NewSpring General Partner
Jim Ashton
A private equity professional with over 25 years of experience in financial services, now helping firms become market leaders.
NewSpring General Partner
Lee Garber
An investment professional with over a decade of experience in assisting portfolio companies reach new levels of growth.
Former Chair, Nasdaq
Bob Greifeld
A first-class leader with over a decade of experience at NASDAQ, leading complex acquisitions, and driving strategy.
Former CIO, Nasdaq
Anna Ewing
A financial services industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in leading digital transformation.