Chris Sparenberg

Director, Product and Data Strategy at IHS Markit

As Director of Product and Data Strategy at IHS Markit, Chris is responsible for supporting Private Markets segment strategists and product managers across a range of technology and new product innovation (NPI) initiatives. Chris is focused on reducing friction between LPs and GPs, enabling deeper data sharing and automating the historically manual data collection and analysis processes that are still commonplace across the industry.

Chris holds a wealth of subject matter expertise and has been a leader in data and technology organizations in the Private Markets industry for more than 13 years. Before joining IHS Markit, Chris led the Private Investments data team at Cambridge Associates and worked as a Data Strategy lead at eVestment, a Nasdaq company