MARC RIND
FISERV
“ I want our customers to ultimately gain the advantages of leveraging our intelligence to feed their own ”
MARC RIND
TITLE : CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER ( CTO ) FOR DATA
Marc Rind completed an MA in Business Communications from Emerson College .
Data was a particular point of interest for Marc , which saw him work for a series of DotCom startups before joining Automatic Data Processing ( ADP ), where he stayed for 16 years .
“ I helped build ADP ’ s data cloud ,” says Marc , “ pulling data from across its systems into a common location for the 600,000 businesses to which they provided HR and payroll capabilities .”
In 2020 , Rind moved to Fiserv , the fintech that combines data from over 1,800 financial institutions for everything from for core processing to providing cards and payment solutions , all the way down to merchant acquiring and card issuing . science workloads . “ When you have workloads like this , you see a lot of spikes and reductions ,” says Marc .
“ So , to better manage data functions , we wanted to move these services into the cloud .”
What ’ s more , Fiserv operates multiple business units , as mentioned above – meaning historically its data sources have been siloed in these different units . “ Each of these data sets has their own purpose , and their own clients that they ’ re serving ,” continues Marc .
“ We wanted to have something that we could federate development on top of without disturbing data owners within our individual units – because data owners know their data best .
“ It was important to work with these individual units so they could build into this cloud platform , so they knew that their data wouldn ’ t be affected , but it could be used for more value-added purposes organisation-wide .”
Another important element for Fiserv ’ s cloud transition was partnering with
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