
Joe Gits, CFA
United States, United States
CEO and Co-Founder at Context Analytics, Inc. (CA) | CEO at Context Analytics, Inc.
Summary
Execution-driven financial services technology professional with an outstanding track record building exciting technology products, mentoring and developing global teams, and driving strategic business operations. Experience managing all aspects of client relationships including sales, service, and education. Strong subject matter expertise in front, middle, and back office investment systems. Co-Founded Social Market Analytics, Inc. in 2012 after recognizing the need for an analytics tool that capital markets professionals can use to quantify social media data and its impact on equities, sectors and industries. Sold Quantitative Analytics to Thomson Financial in 2006 and subsequently took over development of Quantitative databases and applications for Thomson. I managed a global team of over 150 developers. We integrated and maintained Thomson Reuters and third party content with a special emphasis on security masters and corporate actions. I have experience working with all major financial databases. My group owned the data process from ingesting content from vendor feeds multiple times a day to delivering content to deployed databases and applications with associated API's. Specialties: Capital Markets Applications, Big Data, Outsourcing, Start Ups, Security Master, Corporate Actions, Quantitative Analytics, Data Mining
CEO and Co-Founder
Context Analytics, Inc. (CA)
1 Jan 2012 - Present
14yrs 7mos
Greater Chicago Area
www.SocialMarketAnalytics.com Founded and launched cutting-edge analytics company focused on converting social media data into actionable intelligence for Financial Markets customers. SMA provides clients with sophisticated mathematical tools for the measurement of social media signature for equities, futures, currencies, Indices, sectors and industries. Built SMA using Lean Startup and Agile Development methodologies and brought together a passionate, high-powered team with more than 100 years of (global) expertise in the financial market. Spearheaded the process of receiving our first patent. Scaling the business with partnership agreements with leading industry players.
EVP Quantitative Analytics
Thomson Reuters
1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2011
5yrs 11mos
Co-Founder
Quantitative Analytics, Inc.
1 Jan 1996 - 31 Dec 2006
10yrs 11mos
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