SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xignite, Inc., the leading financial market data cloud provider, today announced it has selected Stephen Van Horne as its new chief financial officer (CFO).
Van Horne is an experienced Silicon Valley veteran with more than 18 years of building and scaling finance, legal, HR, and operations organizations to support high growth companies. He is an expert at building and strengthening capital structures, establishing internal controls and policies, and many other aspects of the role.
“Steve has demonstrated solid financial acumen and strategic savvy,” said Stephane Dubois, founder and CEO of Xignite. “His experience driving financial discipline and exponential growth throughout technology organizations is right in line with Xignite’s roadmap.”
Van Horne added, “I joined Xignite because it is an exciting company with the potential to transform the way companies acquire, utilize and drive value from financial data. I am excited to roll up my sleeves and tackle the growth opportunities that lay ahead.”
Prior to Xignite, Van Horne was CFO of RockYou, Inc. Previous to that, he worked for legendary Silicon Valley company Yahoo! in corporate finance and as vice president of operations finance. He also served in senior leadership roles at Bechtel Enterprises and Tokyo’s Sanwa Bank Ltd.
About Xignite
Xignite is the leading financial market data cloud provider, offering more than 50 financial cloud APIs and fulfilling more than five billion service requests per month for real-time, historical and reference data covering global equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, mutual funds, derivatives and OTC instruments. The Xignite market data cloud powers mission-critical applications for financial services front, middle and back office, financial websites, investor relations, corporate ERP and BI, e-commerce, and mobile for more than 900 clients in 47 countries, including Citi, GE, Wells Fargo, ING, BNY Mellon, Natixis, Forbes.com, SeekingAlpha, ExxonMobil, Starbucks, Netsuite, and Barrick Gold. The award-winning XigniteOnDemand cloud platform also provides new online channels for stock exchanges, trading venues, OTC brokers and market data originators including CME Group, NASDAQ OMX, BGCantor and Pearson. For more information, please visit www.xignite.com or call 1-866-XML-SOAP.
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