Director, Head of Market Data, Hudson Bay Capital Management LP

Ivette Collazo is a Director and is the Head of Market Data at Hudson Bay Capital, a multi-strategy fund manager.

Ivette brings over 30 years’ in the data and technology industry with experiences from a consumer, vendor and supplier background. Ivette has led roles in sales, product management, product oversight, business development and strategy.

She started her career at Bloomberg LP and ascended through the ranks to lead regional sales and account management handling key institutional buyside clients. She was on the intrapreneurial team that founded Bloomberg BondTrader which initiated Bloomberg’s fixed income electronic multi-dealer trading eco-system.

In 2001, Ivette joined BrokerTec, a cross-dealer fin-tech electronic trading venture led by the world’s largest investment banks. There, Ivette was part of the leadership team and oversaw its Market Data, Marketing and Media strategy. Post-acquisition by ICAP in 2004, Ivette continued to lead the Americas data business and developed an expanded channel partner strategy.    

In 2010, Ivette joined BlackRock’s Index and Data Solutions leading key provider relationship strategies. In 2016, Ivette expanded her role as the Global Head of the Relationship Management supporting the firm’s enterprise, strategic data initiatives and oversaw the management of the firm’s market data vendors, executed the firm’s market data strategy. 

Ivette graduated from West Virginia University with a BSBA, emphasis in Finance and is fluent in Spanish. Ivette is on the Board of the Women’s Bond Club and serves as Advisor to the Strategic Growth / Chapters initiatives and was recognized in 2004 as a WBC Rising Star award recipient.