Joe Carvalhido

Joe began his career with Compustat back when data was assembled manually and keypunched. He is on a first name basis with the head of virtually every data firm in the business. Joe is one of the founders of Xcitek Inc. Xcitek, created in 1986, grew to become a diverse group of firms providing market data, consulting services, and software to the financial services industry. In 2007 Xcitek Market Data was acquired by IDC. While Xcitek Market Data was best known for their Corporate Actions Data product, Joe successfully negotiated reseller agreements with 11 other vendors covering a broad spectrum of market data types, and these included S&P, IDC, DTCC, and EDI. His ability, knowledge, experience, and relationships with other data vendors, are key to success. Just as he and his Xcitek partners identified a market need for fixed record corporate actions data, Joe has identified a market need for multiple new data products that leverage semantic technologies and provide data directly from the originating source.