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Company Overview

BattleFin was founded in 2012 by Tim Harrington. Our company is on a mission to help financial services and corporate clients discover alternative data more efficiently, and ultimately, support more strategic investment decisions for better outcomes.

BattleFin is a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry. Institutional investors include London Stock Exchange and Jefferies.

We are the host of Discovery Day Events, the largest alternative data event series in the U.S., Europe and Asia. A global network of buy-side customers and alternative data provider partners that is unmatched in the industry.

“Data and AI is changing the way companies are operating in today’s world and BattleFin makes it easier than ever to find the right data and tech that delivers actionable and valuable insights.”
— Tim Harrington, Founder & CEO at BattleFin

BattleFin Team

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    Tim Harrington

    Founder & CEO

    Tim has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He was the President and a Partner at Lion's Path Capital, a hedge fund strategy incubator where he allocated capital to 30 fundamental and systematic portfolio managers since the launch in 2009

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    Todd G. Schwendiman

    Chief Operating Officer

    Todd has over 35 years of experience in all aspects of the alternative assets business including managing hedge funds, fund of funds, a family office and a broker dealer.

    Todd also has certifications for CHP and CAIA.

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    Ish Pandher

    Chief Strategy Officer

    Responsible for crafting market, partnership & product strategy at BattleFin, Ish is a former Managing Director at WorldQuant having built successful alpha crowd sourcing businesses as well as launched multipled tech related initiatives at investment banks and R&D firms.

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    Sarah Smith

    SVP, Head of Sales

    Sarah has built a career at the intersection of data, technology, and financial services. She began at firms like S&P Capital IQ and Intercontinental Exchange, selling data and insights to financial institutions. She then joined Edison Software to develop the go-to-market strategy for the finance vertical, growing it from inception to acquisition. Most recently, Sarah co-founded Seek AI, a tech startup transforming data analysis through generative AI. With deep expertise in sales, go-to-market strategy, and AI-driven innovation, she is passionate about helping businesses unlock the power of data.

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    Nitzan Weinstein

    Chief Technology Officer

    Nitzan is an expert at Design & Development of high performance solutions for front/middle office.

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    Amgad Troodi

    Software Developer

    Amgad is a software developer at BattleFin, responsible for the Ensemble product. His work focuses on scraping and updating new data for firms and contacts, as well as building and improving features that support data management and delivery.

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    Eni

    Sales Development Representative, Events and Technology Support

    Eni is a Sales Development Representative who joined BattleFin in May 2023. In his time with BattleFin, Eni has become well-versed in most of the company's business development and operations related efforts, while primarily supporting outbound sales, CRM management and business growth efforts. He also contributes to cross-departmental Discovery Day event operations and technology product related initiatives for the BattleFin Ensemble marketplace and designing dashboards for clients on Exabel's alternative data insight platform. Eni is an alumnus of University of Connecticut School of Business.