LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To support the company’s continued growth, RIMES today announced that Steve Davey has joined the company as Head of IT Infrastructure and Information Security, effective immediately. Reporting jointly to the CEO and the CTO, Davey will be responsible for maintaining RIMES’ global IT infrastructure and data centers in order to further enhance the delivery and reliability of RIMES BDSsm, their award-winning benchmark data service. Additionally, he will oversee the Company’s information security.
A recognized information technology professional, Davey has nearly 30 years of experience servicing large, global companies in the engineering, financial and legal sectors. Prior to joining RIMES, he was Head of Core Infrastructure at Linklaters and held senior management positions including Programme Manager at BT Radianz Customer Engineering and Manager, Global Voice and Data Networks Team at Barclays Global Investors.
“Steve’s deep and highly relevant experience will further support our mission of delivering the high quality data management services that support the unique operational objectives of the buyside,’’ said Christian Fauvelais, CEO and co-founder of RIMES. “Our strong data management capabilities and superior client service have been critical to our success, and we look forward to having Steve expand on our accomplishments in this newly created role.”
Steve Davey commented: “I am very excited to be joining RIMES at this time and look forward to the opportunity to develop our IT infrastructure further to support the continued development of the RIMES platform.”
About RIMES
RIMES has been servicing the buy-side with data and analytics since 1998, by delivering the first Internet-delivered, highly-customized financial data aggregation platform. More than a decade later, the management of quality benchmark data built to fit any in-house or third-party solutions, coupled with the provision of excellent customer service remain RIMES’ primary focus. Investment Managers in 36 countries use their award-winning Benchmark Data Service (RIMES BDSsm) to outsource their entire data management workflow. RIMES was recently voted “Best Product Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm” and “Best Data Provider to the Buy-Side” at the 2011 Waters Technology BST Awards, the latter for the 5th consecutive year. RIMES BDS was also voted “Best EDM Initiative” at the 2010 Inside Reference Data Awards and “Most Innovative New Service” at the 2010 Banking Technology Awards. To learn more, please visit www.rimes.com