Ozlem Peksoy Bishop

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My path has been unconventional by design — quantum physics to derivatives trading to financial engineering to corporate strategy and data leadership. Every transition sharpened the same core skill::: seeing how complex systems connect and making those connections work for people. At MSCI/Barra, I spent 8.5 years doing exactly that — building and managing 440+ strategic alliances across 75+ countries, serving on the Executive Committee and M&A Committee, and leading business development across content, indices, algorithmics, and analytics. I structured partnerships in co-opetitive environments where trust and sustainable agreements matter more than leverage — an area I care about deeply and have contributed to at the academic level. I consulted independently for over six years, with clients including Axioma (now part of Qontigo/SimCorp), advising on optimization, risk, and data strategy. Before all of this, I traded derivatives at major financial institutions — experience that grounds everything I do in real market dynamics, not theory. As Chief Data Officer and Director of Research at Renaissance Park Corporation, I brought the same integrative lens to enterprise data strategy, go

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