Alex Gray

Director of Product Management, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Mr. Alex Gray is Director of Product Management within the Maritime & Trade group at IHS Markit.

He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the maritime industry, starting with technical roles in ship owning and management companies, then later specializing in data and information provision. Mr. Gray leads the subject matter expert team for Bespoke Maritime Data Services at IHS Markit. He and his team are responsible for optimizing client use of multiple databases and their 600 available data fields. His team can provide subject matter expertise for projects from one-off requests to complex tender submissions. He supports and advises the sales team and end user clients in building data extracts for regular use in data warehouses, CRM systems, ship identification and vessel tracking (VTS) systems, and trading and security systems. Mr. Gray holds a master's degree in Strategic Marketing Management and two other degrees in Economics from London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan), London, The Open University.