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Christopher Ellis

Executive Vice President and Head of Strategic Initiatives & Partnership, FactSet

Search every verified Christopher Ellis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a November 2023 interview for the AWS Financial Services Partner Series, Ellis discussed the partnership between FactSet and AWS. He stated that the velocity of change impacting financial services over the last decade has been "truly unprecedented," citing evolving customer expectations, new industry players, and emerging technologies. Ellis said that FactSet and AWS are enabling customers to increase efficiency and agility by accelerating speed to market, allowing institutions to go "from an idea to implementation quickly" using cloud services and purpose-built solutions. He emphasized that the solutions discussed are "real," "in production," and "ready to go" for mutual clients. Ellis noted that FactSet provides about 30 foundational data sets, including company fundamentals, estimates, ownership, and macroeconomic data. He described the growth of private capital as having "skyrocketed," which places the burden of data management on clients because private assets are often unstructured and not naturally concorded. Ellis argued that data sitting in a silo cannot be combined with other data sets to produce the best analytic conclusion, and that data must be "perfectly blended together" to maximize analytic quality. He also said that the partnership with AWS allows FactSet to be "more responsive than we frankly never thought we could have been in the past," enabling tri-party collaboration with clients to solve needs more quickly.

Recent appearances

  • Modernizing Financial Data and AI with Databricks | FactSet Insight Podcast

    October 30, 2025 · 📺 FactSet

    How are financial firms using data, cloud, and AI to boost productivity and decision-making? In this episode of The Cloud View, Chris Ellis, FactSet’s Global Head of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, sits down with Junta Nakai, Databricks Global Head of Financial Services and Sustainability, to break down key strategies for modernizing data infrastructure and adopting AI-driven workflows, sharing critical insights shaping digital transformation across the industry. If you are ready to transform your firm's approach to data and AI, watch now to gain insights that will help you make more i…

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  • Nicole McQueen, AWS & Chris Ellis, FactSet | AWS Financial Services

    November 14, 2023 · 📺 SiliconANGLEtheCUBE

    In this special interview for the AWS Financial Services Partner Series, theCUBE analyst John Furrier welcomes Nicole McQueen and Chris Ellis to discuss the partnership between FactSet and AWS Financial Services. They emphasize the rapid evolution of the financial services industry, driven by changing customer expectations, emerging technologies and new regulations, accelerated further by the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more about SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the latest tech events and news https://siliconangle.com/events/ Data management and the cloud play pivotal roles, allowing…

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  • The Value of Partnerships in the Financial Community

    September 22, 2022 · 📺 Foxon Media Digital

    Join FactSet’s Christopher Ellis, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategic Initiatives, as he discusses how important partnerships are in this current state of the financial community. Learn how FactSet prioritizes itself as a reliable, flexible partner for its own clients as well as how FactSet formulates partnerships with other key firms in the industry.

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