Varun Pawar

Chief Product Officer ICE

Varun Pawar is the Chief Product Officer at ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services (NYSE: ICE). In his role, Pawar oversees product development and innovation across entity data, security master data, evaluated pricing across bonds and derivatives, indices, analytics and data operations globally. From June 2021 to December 2023, Pawar headed ICE Data Indices overseeing product development, business strategy and operations globally. Prior to being responsible for ICE’s index business, Pawar headed up quantitative teams at ICE Fixed Income and Data Services focused on improving precision of bond evaluation products and developing new products using a combination of proprietary data, technology, and human capital. Pawar joined ICE in September 2019 after spending 12 years at Bloomberg developing their fixed income evaluated pricing business, BVAL. Pawar headed the BVAL business globally from 2015 to 2019. Born and raised in Bangalore India, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Bangalore University and master’s degree in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.