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Cort Williams
President, Institutional Sales
Cort Williams has served as president of Interactive Data's institutional sales organization since March 2009. With more than two decades of sales, marketing and business development experience at Interactive Data, Mr. Williams is responsible for the Company's sales, client relationships, and customer service-oriented functions focused on institutional clients.
Mr. Williams joined Interactive Data in 1988 as a senior strategic sales representative. He subsequently advanced into sales management roles of increasing responsibility. In 1996, Mr. Williams was responsible for creating what is now known as the Company's Business Development Group, which is focused on redistributor and software vendor relationships, and then helped to grow this distribution channel. After taking on additional responsibility as vice president of strategy and business development in 2001, Mr. Williams oversaw overall strategy, marketing and acquisitions and alliances for the business now known as Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, and helped drive further expansion of the Company's network of redistributors. In 2006, he was promoted to senior vice president of Interactive Data's Major Accounts and Business Development Groups. In this role, he led the formation of the Company's Major Accounts Group that has helped strengthen and expand Interactive Data's business relationships with some of the world's largest financial institutions who utilize offerings from across Interactive Data's businesses.
Prior to joining Interactive Data, he held sales and marketing management positions at the Data Resources Inc. unit of McGraw-Hill and a subsidiary of US Trust Company of New York.
Williams earned his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University with a dual major in Finance and International Business.
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