Chief Operating Officer, ICE Data Services

Mark Heckert is Chief Operating Officer at ICE Data Services, which is part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). He oversees the global sales and relationship management teams for ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services business. In this role, he oversees client-facing products and teams, ensuring seamless provision of ICE data and services to customers.

Heckert has over 25 years of experience serving the fixed income data industry and developing new products that bring more transparency to global markets. Before his role as Chief Operating Officer, Heckert was Chief Product Officer for ICE Data Services, supporting an array of solutions that enable customers to mark-to-market, benchmark, manage risk and determine investment strategies. He joined the company as part of ICE’s acquisition of Interactive Data in 2015, where he led the fixed income valuations business and oversaw the creation of the Continuous Evaluated Pricing service, which provides streaming evaluated bond prices for over 2.4 million securities.

Before joining Interactive Data in 1998, Heckert worked at State Street Bank & Trust Co. He holds an MBA in finance and strategy from Boston University and a BA in political economy from Michigan State University.