< The 2014 Tech 50: Moving Out of the Lab and Into the Cloud
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Jim Minnick
Chief Executive Officer
eVestment
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For asset managers looking to maximize their reach among institutional investors with minimal effort, eVestment CEO Jim Minnick has the solution: Omni, a web-based data collection and distribution system that lets managers update performance data and other information in more than 60 consultant and third-party databases with just a few mouse clicks. “We’ve invested a tremendous amount in getting a new version, Omni 2.0, released to the marketplace,” says Minnick, 44, whose firm’s own database consists of some 59,000 investment vehicles from more than 9,000 traditional and alternative-asset managers globally. Atlanta-based eVestment offers a variety of analytics packages — Quantum, Spectrum and Spotlight — that investors and asset allocators can use to screen for new managers as well as monitor those in existing portfolios. Minnick, who has an MBA from Atlanta’s Emory University and was a consultant with Watson Wyatt & Co. before co-founding eVestment in 2000, says his 250-person firm has been focused on “expanding and enhancing” its technology platforms to integrate its traditional asset management and hedge fund analytics. At the same time, eVestment looks to develop new proprietary data products based on the information it collects from its 2,500 customers. One such product, Advantage, delivers marketing metrics and forecasts future flows among different asset classes and investment strategies based on the research activities of consultants and investors within eVestment.
The 2014 Tech 50
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Thomas Secunda
Bloomberg Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp. Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments Lance Uggla
Markit 6
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8
9
10
Robert Goldstein
BlackRock David Craig
Thomson Reuters Phupinder Gill
CME Group Anna Ewing
NASDAQ
OMX Group R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group 11
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15
Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures Dan Mathisson
Credit Suisse Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings Michael Spencer
ICAP Michael Bodson
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corp. 16
17
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19
20
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 21
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25
Lou Eccleston
S&P Capital IQ Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings Antoine
Shagoury
London Stock
Exchange Group 26
27
28
29
30
Christopher
Perretta
State Street Corp. Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co. Peter Carr
Morgan Stanley Hauke Stars
Deutsche Börse Robert Alexander
Capital One
Financial Corp. 31
32
33
34
35
David Gershon
SuperDerivatives Chris Corrado
MSCI Joseph Squeri
Citadel Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services John Bates
Software AG 36
37
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40
Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group David Gledhill
DBS Bank Simon Garland
Kx Systems Cristóbal Conde
FinTech Innovation Lab Jeff Parker
EidoSearch 41
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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 46
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Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix Sebastián Ceria
Axioma Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma