CORE
COMPLIANCE
REVIEW GROUP, INC
ABOUT
CORE provides you with five important advantages: skilled approach, third-party objectivity, focus on financial market data, deep practical experience, and comprehensive background in law and business.
CORE's entire business centers on contract compliance review and consulting for Market Data Vendors and End Users. We are not an accounting firm attempting to apply financial auditing procedures and techniques to market data licenses. We understand market data and the firms that create it, license it, distribute it, and use it. We know the industry and the various types of business that operate within it.
CORE's Founder, CEO and Lead Auditor
As both a licensor and reviewer, Keith has an in depth understanding of the compliance issues confronting both parties to the contract at the negotiating and drafting stage as well as the review stage. Keith's background is in the law, bringing a uniquely valuable perspective to the audit process. Mr. Holden's entire career has centered on the development and protection of intellectual property rights. After practicing law with a boutique Media and Intellectual Property firm representing clients in both commercial transactions and litigation related to copyright, trademark, trade secrets and licensing, he moved to a corporate environment serving in various executive roles for licensed commercial products and information security companies. Keith brings his extensive experience in the development and protection of intellectual property, licensing, and commercial contracts to the contract compliance arena. He has been seated on both sides of the table (licensee and licensor), as well as between (attorney and auditor), and has analyzed contracts from every angle - reviewing, revising, negotiating, drafting, litigating, and auditing.
Keith earned a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a J.D from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was a Belkin Scholar. He is an advisor to several start-up businesses as well as a few emerging performing and fine artists. Keith enjoys photography, fine art, printing and framing, music, and classic cars.
CORE's Chief Operating Officer and Senior Auditor
vehicles, including a Luxembourg-based UCITs fund, a BaFin-regulated German subsidiary and two Delaware LPs. Claire spearheaded new product and service rollouts and compliance initiatives, as well as managed accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, HR, vendor management and annual internal and external audits for the firm. Claire served as the firm's independent Risk Auditor and on teams charged with implementing EMIR and S-II reporting, the initiation of internal audits and SEC mock audits, MIFID II compliance, Brexit prep and NSCC onboarding. In the decades prior to this role, Claire held senior business development and project management roles with premier global organizations including PepsiCo, GE Capital, and JPMorgan Chase. As a management consultant for many years, Claire completed dozens of short-term projects for smaller firms and non-profits supporting the offices of CEO, COO, CFO and CIO, including mapping innovative fundraising initiatives, performing competitor research to prepare for new market entry, designing new product launches, preparing board and investor reporting packages, and performing gap analysis and remedies for "broken" financial and accounting processes.
Claire earned a B.A. with Honors in International Relations from Stanford University, an M.A. from The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned the FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses and certificates in Project Management from the Darden School of Business and Secondary Education from Manhattanville College. Claire is a member of the Stanford Women's Network, the 100 Women Foundation, sits on the Board of non-profit Ocean Grants, and serves as a "shark tank" coach for high school students engaged in the NFTE program. Claire speaks Spanish, French and German, in addition to her native English and is an avid hiker and weekend biking and running enthusiast.
CORE's TEAM
CORE provides you with five important advantages: skilled approach, third-party objectivity, focus on financial market data, deep practical experience, and comprehensive background in law and business.
CORE's entire business centers on contract compliance review and consulting for Market Data Vendors and End Users. We are not an accounting firm attempting to apply financial auditing procedures and techniques to market data licenses. We understand market data and the firms that create it, license it, distribute it, and use it. We know the industry and the various types of business that operate within it.
CORE's Founder, CEO and Lead Auditor
As a former Associate Director of Licensing and Compliance for a major Financial Market Data Vendor, CORE's founder and principal, Keith Holden, led the development, implementation and management of that firm's Contract Compliance Program covering their full portfolio of license agreements. He led the firm's Contract Compliance Review team in performing on-site contract compliance reviews resulting in increased data protection and the realization of substantial new and under-reported revenue. Keith also expanded the firm's re-distributor reporting program opening numerous sales channels, identifying new licensees, and generating significant new revenue.
As both a licensor and reviewer, Keith has an in depth understanding of the compliance issues confronting both parties to the contract at the negotiating and drafting stage as well as the review stage. Keith's background is in the law, bringing a uniquely valuable perspective to the audit process. Mr. Holden's entire career has centered on the development and protection of intellectual property rights. After practicing law with a boutique Media and Intellectual Property firm representing clients in both commercial transactions and litigation related to copyright, trademark, trade secrets and licensing, he moved to a corporate environment serving in various executive roles for licensed commercial products and information security companies. Keith brings his extensive experience in the development and protection of intellectual property, licensing, and commercial contracts to the contract compliance arena. He has been seated on both sides of the table (licensee and licensor), as well as between (attorney and auditor), and has analyzed contracts from every angle - reviewing, revising, negotiating, drafting, litigating, and auditing.
Keith earned a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a J.D from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he was a Belkin Scholar. He is an advisor to several start-up businesses as well as a few emerging performing and fine artists. Keith enjoys photography, fine art, printing and framing, music, and classic cars.
CORE's Chief Operating Officer and Senior Auditor
With nearly thirty years of financial services industry experience, Claire LaBrunerie has extensive practical knowledge across industry sectors, economic cycles, and companies in all stages of growth. Claire has led teams around the globe in front-, middle- and back-office roles, accumulating a keen understanding of the factors required for optimal team performance, as well as how financial services firms acquire, use, and protect intellectual property and third party data.
Prior to joining CORE, Claire served as Chief Operating Officer for an asset management company, in charge of developing and implementing new processes and strategic initiatives to expand the business and enhance profitability for new products and
Prior to joining CORE, Claire served as Chief Operating Officer for an asset management company, in charge of developing and implementing new processes and strategic initiatives to expand the business and enhance profitability for new products and
vehicles, including a Luxembourg-based UCITs fund, a BaFin-regulated German subsidiary and two Delaware LPs. Claire spearheaded new product and service rollouts and compliance initiatives, as well as managed accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, HR, vendor management and annual internal and external audits for the firm. Claire served as the firm's independent Risk Auditor and on teams charged with implementing EMIR and S-II reporting, the initiation of internal audits and SEC mock audits, MIFID II compliance, Brexit prep and NSCC onboarding. In the decades prior to this role, Claire held senior business development and project management roles with premier global organizations including PepsiCo, GE Capital, and JPMorgan Chase. As a management consultant for many years, Claire completed dozens of short-term projects for smaller firms and non-profits supporting the offices of CEO, COO, CFO and CIO, including mapping innovative fundraising initiatives, performing competitor research to prepare for new market entry, designing new product launches, preparing board and investor reporting packages, and performing gap analysis and remedies for "broken" financial and accounting processes.
Claire earned a B.A. with Honors in International Relations from Stanford University, an M.A. from The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned the FINRA Series 7 and Series 63 licenses and certificates in Project Management from the Darden School of Business and Secondary Education from Manhattanville College. Claire is a member of the Stanford Women's Network, the 100 Women Foundation, sits on the Board of non-profit Ocean Grants, and serves as a "shark tank" coach for high school students engaged in the NFTE program. Claire speaks Spanish, French and German, in addition to her native English and is an avid hiker and weekend biking and running enthusiast.
CORE's TEAM
CORE has developed and continuously cultivates an exclusive network of accomplished professionals with a broad range of skills from financial and legal analysis, to IT and data analytics, to writing, research and business operations. CORE has been sourcing and training top tier talent, providing them with real-time experience in all areas of our business. Our bench is highly engaged and can be deployed dynamically to meet our clients' demands for both short-term and long-term commitments. Across any economic cycle - let alone the dizzying swings associated with unprecedented global disruptions - we recognize that a deep and diversified talent bench is critical. CORE is committed to maintaining its pool of trained and ready "A Players" to ensure continuity, effectiveness, and productivity in order to best serve our clients.
800 Westchester Avenue
Suite N-641
Rye Brook, New York 10573
914.697.7500
Suite N-641
Rye Brook, New York 10573
914.697.7500