Title: Head of Municipal Bond Pricing
Firm: IHS Markit
Age: 35
Industry & Community Contributions: Member, Municipal Bond Club of New York; President of condo board association for three consecutive years
Fun Facts: Kevin will run his third Disney World Marathon in January as part of the Dopey Challenge: a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon totaling 48.6 miles over four days.
Kevin Chen manages IHS Markit's municipal pricing product and is responsible for daily oversight, conducting cross-departmental meetings around product enhancements, and participating in due diligence meetings with current and prospective customers.
Kevin's objective is to merge a more traditional evaluation methodology by grouping comparable bonds and infuse it with the automation of data gathering. By leveraging his past credit evaluation experience with Markit's vast amount of collected data it allowed him to create processes for the evaluation desk to concentrate on effectively adjusting individual sectors according to market condition thus resulting in a competitive third party evaluation product offering.
Kevin works diligently to enhance and modify IHS Markit's municipal pricing product to fulfill clients' requirements with transparency metrics and liquidity scores, promptly incorporating the inevitable changes in the regulatory landscape.
"Under Kevin's leadership, Markit's municipal offering is viewed as a viable evaluation service that competes with vendors that have lead the industry for decades. Kevin's ability to adapt to new regulations around transparency and liquidity demonstrate his keen awareness towards the future of the municipal market."
Anthony Hoesterey
Manager, Commerical Planning, Medidata Solutions
