Xignite Hires Data, Finance Execs to Boost Sales in 2017

Since October, the vendor has hired a trio of execs, kicking off expansion plans for the coming year.

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In New York, Xignite has hired Dina Xu as sales director, while at its headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., the vendor has hired and Marla Sofer as senior director of strategic business development.

Xu was most recently director of business development and channel partnerships at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she spent 14 years in various roles in New York, China and Australia, including associate director of investment management and director of client development, having originally joined Capital IQ in 2002 as senior marketing manager.

Sofer was previously director and head of third-part monitoring and oversight at Lending Club, prior to which she was director of global provider strategy at BlackRock, and served as vice president and lead of the regional investment manager segment at JP Morgan Chase. Before joining JP Morgan in 2006, Sofer was assistant treasurer at Bank Leumi USA. At Xignite, she will be responsible for managing key partners, redistribution clients, and special marketing initiatives, including its Fintech API Ecosystem.

The latest appointments follow the hire of Ryan Burdick in the fourth quarter of last year as senior vice president and global head of sales, based in New York, and responsible for the vendor's worldwide sales team and partners. Burdick previously spent a year at IHS Markit as head of client management for enterprise software in North America, prior to which he was vice president of sales for distribution and third-party alliances at S&P Global Market Intelligence, and also served as associate director of sales at Standard & Poor's, which he joined as a sales associate in 2004. Before S&P, he was a sales associate at Edgar Online.

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