30. Mike Chinn
President
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Last year: 31
The buzz around big data and analytics is music to Mike Chinn’s ears. He is president of S&P Global Market Intelligence, a $1.6 billion-in-revenue division of S&P Global that was built to capitalize on the seemingly insatiable demand for financial data, market signals, and insights. Reflecting on the implications of data and analytics on business, Chinn says, “It means everything and nothing. A spreadsheet is data. A model that gets you to a decision is analytics.” Given the ubiquity of data and how quickly the ability to aggregate and analyze it has evolved, value increasingly lies in asking the “right questions,” says Chinn. He has led S&P Global Market Intelligence since September 2015, when McGraw Hill Financial acquired SNL Financial for $2.2 billion and combined the information provider with its S&P Capital IQ business. Chinn, 45, was president and CEO of SNL Financial prior to the purchase. He’s partly focused on “widening the moat around unique and proprietary data sets and finding new ones.” Despite the trend toward open availability and democratization of data, there are still opportunities to gain proprietary data, and to profit handsomely from it.
The 2017 Tech 40
1. Adena Friedman 2. Catherine Bessant 3. Robert Goldstein 4. Jeffrey Sprecher 5. Lance Uggla |
6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko 7. David Craig 8. Michael Spencer 9. Don Callahan 10. Elisha Wiesel |
11. Michael Bodson 12. Terrence Duffy 13. Charles Li 14. Sean Belka 15. Chris Concannon |
16. Guy Chiarello 17. Steven Lieblich 18. David Rutter 19. Blythe Masters 20. Alfred Spector |
21. Neil Katz 22. Lee Olesky 23. Richard McVey 24. David Gledhill 25. Seth Merrin |
26. Antoine Shagoury 27. Peter Brown & 28. Lou Eccleston 29. Peter Cherecwich 30. Mike Chinn |
31. Chris Corrado 32. Neal Pawar 33. Gary Norcross 34. Steven O’Hanlon 35. Sebastián Ceria |
36. Brian Conlon 37. Tyler Kim 38. Michael Cooper 39. Robert Schifellite 40. Jim Minnick |
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