Eliza Raphael Jump Trading Global Head of Data Strategy Columbia University Speaker
Columbia Mathematics of Finance (MAFN) & Department of Statistics 2026 Future of Portfolio Management & Artificial Intelligence Conference
Eliza Raphael is a senior financial-data executive and the Global Head of Data Strategy at Jump Trading Group, where she has led the firm’s data strategy since February 2024. Her career spans more than two decades across financial markets, data products, alternative data and institutional trading.
Before joining Jump Trading, Raphael spent nearly five years at Schonfeld, where she served as Head of Data Services from 2020 through 2023 and previously worked in Data Strategy and Sourcing. At Schonfeld, she focused on developing and managing data capabilities for a sophisticated investment-management organization.
Raphael previously spent more than 13 years at Nasdaq, holding a succession of senior leadership positions in global data products and alternative data. From 2006 to 2017, she served as Managing Director of Global Data Products, later becoming Managing Director and Principal Product Manager for Global Data Products. From 2018 to 2019, she was Head of Alternative Data Partnerships, where she worked at the intersection of financial data, technology and emerging alternative-data sources.
Earlier in her career, Raphael worked at Bloomberg, where she held positions in application support and sales and account management. Her experience at Bloomberg provided an early foundation in financial technology, institutional markets and data-driven financial services.
Raphael began her career in financial services after graduating from James Madison University with a BBA in International Business. She double-majored in International Business and Spanish and later completed the Securities Industry Institute at The Wharton School. She also studied abroad at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.
Throughout her career, Raphael has specialized in one of the increasingly important areas of modern finance: how sophisticated financial institutions acquire, evaluate, organize and use data. Her experience spans traditional financial-market data, global data products, alternative data, data sourcing and enterprise data strategy.
Today, as Global Head of Data Strategy at Jump Trading Group, Raphael works at the intersection of data and quantitative finance at one of the world’s leading proprietary trading firms. Her career reflects the growing importance of high-quality data infrastructure and alternative data in systematic and technology-driven investment strategies.
