< The 2014 Tech 50: Moving Out of the Lab and Into the Cloud
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Tyler Kim
Chief Information Officer
MaplesFS
Last year: 46
A niche fund servicer with $45 billion under administration might ordinarily be expected to be a technology backwater, heavily dependent on outsourcing. But Montreal-based MaplesFS, led by chief information officer Tyler Kim, defies the stereotype. Maples Fund Services, the administrator, is merely the “old school” core, Kim says, of a broadening business portfolio that requires the flexibility, control and reliability of in-house technology. As of this year Kim’s team of 50-plus has taken responsibility for previously hosted infrastructure and data-management-related applications, the core system of the Maples Fiduciary unit and even local support for eight offices worldwide. “In-house capability outstrips what vendors can do,” asserts the Stanford University industrial engineering graduate and former hedge fund CTO, who was hired in 2009 by MaplesFS’s parent, offshore law firm Maples and Calder, and given a broad “transformation” mandate. By 2011 “our focus was on growth, and technology was seen as the enabler,” says the 40-year-old. “Now we’re growing in leaps and bounds.” Revenue was up 29.6 percent year-over-year through April. Fueling the growth are services like risk reporting (Texas Tech University is the first endowment client) and fund compliance support to help clients address regulations like Europe’s alternative-investments directive and the U.S.’s form PF. That added dimension “is what makes this job so great,” Kim says.
The 2014 Tech 50
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Dave Cross
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IAN CURCIO 2011
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FayFoto/Boston
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Teri Pengilley
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| Thomas Secunda Bloomberg | Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange | Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. | Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments | Lance Uggla Markit |
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Photographer:Charlie Simokaitis
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Mark McQueen
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| Robert Goldstein BlackRock | David Craig Thomson Reuters | Phupinder Gill CME Group | Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group | R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group |
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Christopher Elston
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| Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures | Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse | Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings | Michael Spencer ICAP | Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. |
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Todd Plitt
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| Joe Ratterman BATS Global Markets | Dominique Cerutti Euronext | Ron Levi GFI Group | Gaurav Suri D.E. Shaw Group | Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing |
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Larry Lettera/ Camera 1
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XT
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| Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ | Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets | Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings | Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings | Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group |
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Wayne R. Martin
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Thorsten Jansen
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Adam B. Auel
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| Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. | Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. | Peter Carr Morgan Stanley | Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse | Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. |
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Paul Elledge
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Stephen Brashear
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| David Gershon SuperDerivatives | Chris Corrado MSCI | Joseph Squeri Citadel | Tanuja Randery BT Global Services | John Bates Software AG |
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Photo Credit: Kevin Irby
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| Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group | David Gledhill DBS Bank | Simon Garland Kx Systems | Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab | Jeff Parker EidoSearch |
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Jeff Smith Photo
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| Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank | Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates | Tyler Kim MaplesFS | Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. | Jim Minnick eVestment |
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tomohisa ichiki
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David Poultney
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A.E. Fletcher Photography
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| Steven O’Hanlon Numerix | Sebastián Ceria Axioma | Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute | Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners | Mas Nakachi OpenGamma |
