ZN Partners

Clarity in complex operating environments

We help organizations improve how they execute — and how they understand the data those decisions rest on.

The Practice

Two strands, one discipline

Two areas of work, sharing a method: finding the decisions that were made without anyone noticing, and making them explicit again. Engagements are selective and taken on as capacity allows.

Operational Advisory

Transformation and execution work for organizations facing complexity — scaling, restructuring, integrating, or delivering critical initiatives.

  • Operational transformation and performance improvement
  • Program and initiative execution (PMO)
  • Financial and KPI framework design
  • Organizational restructuring and alignment
  • Post-acquisition and integration support

Data & Market Data Advisory

Structural work on data itself: how it is captured, timestamped, normalized, corrected, and eventually treated as fact. Most data problems are not quality problems — they are unexamined interpretive decisions, frozen in place.

  • Market data architecture and platform strategy
  • Reference data, symbology, and mastering design
  • Historical reconstruction and bi-temporal modelling
  • Data governance that addresses structure, not just policy
  • Decision support: aligning analytics to the decisions they serve
Published Work

The real, the raw and the dirty

What you never knew you didn't know about market data.

Every price on every screen looks like a fact. It's actually a verdict — the end of a long chain of decisions about what counts, whose clock rules, and which version of history survives.

Market Data: A Structural Guide — the new book by Dan Solak

About the book
Cover of Market Data: A Structural Guide
About

How we work

ZN Partners is a small, independent firm. Work is led directly by the principals, which keeps the practice deliberately narrow — a limited number of engagements at a time, chosen for fit.

Engagement model

  • Targeted advisory and assessment engagements
  • Program execution and transformation support
  • Interim operational leadership
  • Structural reviews and written deliverables

Background

  • Operating experience at COO level
  • Two decades in financial market data and platform architecture
  • Work across private and public sector environments
Contact

For advisory enquiries, or anything about the book.

hello@znpartners.com

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