Gert Raevas

Gert Raeves is a Research Director at CEB TowerGroup in the Capital Markets practice who is based in London. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, he covers strategic issues facing buy-side and sell-side firms globally and advises clients on strategy, regulation, technology, and product development in the area of post-trade business and technology trends for institutional capital markets.
Gert is a recognized industry domain expert in data management and straight-through processing for financial services. His specific areas of expertise include trade life-cycle management, financial messaging, corporate actions, reconciliation, and data management.

He joined CEB TowerGroup after five years at GoldenSource, a data management technology provider in the securities industry, where his most recent position was senior vice president of strategic business development and marketing. Previously, he spent 10 years in the industry with CheckFree/Heliograph, SWIFT, and JP Morgan/Bank of New York, acquiring in-depth experience in strategy, product management, marketing, relationship management, sales, and partnership development across different industry segments (banks, market utility, and software houses).

An active participant in industry debate, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has been actively involved in associations such as the Enterprise Data Management Council and ISITC Europe, in which he served as an executive member in 2003-05. He is a regular contributor to Inside Reference Data, Finextra, Risk Professional, Reference Data Review, and many other trade and business publications. Gert earned a master’s degree (magna cum laude) in English linguistics and literature from University of Leuven in Belgium. He is fluent in Dutch, French, and English.