About · Management team
Senior practitioners
driving the discipline.
The Paraxis leadership team brings roughly a hundred years of combined market data management experience drawn from Tier-1 investment banks and global asset managers. Each has sat in the seat the client is sitting in now.
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Mark Watson
Managing Partner
Mark brings more than thirty-five years of market data, licensing compliance, and vendor management expertise from senior roles at major consulting firms and financial institutions. He specializes in helping asset managers, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms optimize market data spend while holding full regulatory compliance.
Prior to founding Paraxis, Mark held senior positions at leading financial services firms where he managed market data strategy and vendor relationships across global operations. His work covers both sides of the table, buy-side and sell-side, which is where the durable savings usually live.
Mark leads the firm's strategic direction and senior client advisory work.
Strategic direction · cross-border engagements · senior advisory
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Ted Peyton
Partner · Director of Advisory Services
Ted brings more than thirty years across market data operations, vendor management, and cost optimization. Before joining Paraxis, Ted spent more than a decade at T. Rowe Price, where he led market data procurement and compliance initiatives across the organization; his earlier roles cover the buy-side and sell-side sides of the market data desk.
At T. Rowe Price, Ted was instrumental in negotiating multi-million-dollar vendor contracts and standing up data governance frameworks that took material cost out of the annual data budget while improving data quality and accessibility. His expertise spans real-time market data, reference data, and alternative data sets.
Ted's practical, hands-on approach helps clients navigate complex licensing agreements and implement sustainable cost-control measures. He specializes in audit preparation, remediation strategies, and vendor negotiations.
Vendor negotiation · audit preparation · remediation
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Ian Pearson
Partner · Managing Director, EMEA
Ian leads Paraxis's European, Middle Eastern, and African operations, bringing deep expertise in international market data regulations and cross-border compliance. With more than thirty-five years in financial services, Ian has advised multinational institutions on market data strategy and regulatory alignment.
Previously, Ian held senior roles at major investment banks in London, where he managed market data operations across multiple jurisdictions. His experience includes navigating MiFID II data requirements, GDPR compliance, and multi-currency licensing structures.
Ian's international perspective helps clients optimize their global market data footprint while holding regional compliance posture intact. He specializes in European data vendor relationships and cross-border data governance.
European vendor relationships · cross-border data governance · regulatory alignment