President & CEO - Chito Jovellanos

Chito Jovellanos is the President and CEO of forward look, inc., a Boston and San Francisco based product development advisory that enables investment managers to grow their revenue streams by improving product performance and minimizing implementation shortfalls associated with complex product initiatives.

Prior to launching forward look, inc. in 1999, he was CIO of ISI Emerging Markets (acquired by Euromoney plc), and was responsible for world-wide product marketing and technology for this emerging markets information provider. From 1994 to 1997, he was Director of Research & Development at the Electronic Settlements Group (now Omgeo) in Thomson Financial. Before joining Thomson, Chito was Vice-President of Business Planning at ScotiaMcLeod, and helped establish the Capital Market Group’s equity derivative operation. From 1985 to 1991, Chito acted in various capacities at Reuters plc, most notably as Director of Product Development in the Transaction Products Group at the Instinet division.

Chito served as an advisor to the FAO on the potential development of new agricultural futures, and to the World Economic Forum on the impact of ECommerce in Asia. He is also a participant in various industry groups on derivative business processes and commodity trading. He publishes in refereed journals (ACM, IEEE) and speaks at conferences on information quality in the global securities industry.

Chito is a long-standing Board Member of Troubadour, a non-profit that supports and promotes music and art education in underserved elementary schools in the Boston area.