Tim Baker, a seasoned expert with over 30 years in the U.S. financial services sector, has played pivotal roles in sell-side research, banking, mergers and acquisitions, technology, market data, and data science. His career includes senior leadership positions at notable firms such as IEX, UBS, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters. Additionally, he has invested in and advised several innovative fintech companies.
Currently, Tim Baker is the CEO and Co-founder of viaNexus, a cutting-edge financial data marketplace tailored for the API and AI era. The company, which emerged from the acquisition of IEX Cloud’s operating assets, has flourished under his guidance. It now functions as a dynamic ecosystem for producers and consumers, offering advanced entitlement controls, ultra-low-latency delivery, and agentic services that ensure secure, machine-native data access for intelligent systems like agents and copilots.
ViaNexus continues to expand its offerings by integrating proprietary datasets with premium partner contributions. Its current portfolio includes equity prices, terms and conditions, corporate actions, transcripts, filings, and fundamentals, all delivered with the efficiency and accessibility required by next-generation financial applications.

