< The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

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Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
& Partner
Aquiline Capital Partners

Insurance industry veteran Jeffrey Greenberg believes that technology growth across the economy is having a profound effect on financial services. “Technology is causing companies to think very differently about how they acquire customers, how they interact with them, how they manage themselves, how they underwrite risk, what they retain in-house, what they outsource,” says the 64-year-old chairman and CEO of Aquiline Capital Partners. “The effect is more than just solving a set of problems. For the most-thoughtful companies, it’s really redesigning how they think about their businesses.” Greenberg founded the New York–based private equity firm a decade ago after resigning as CEO of insurance brokerage giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. amid a bid-rigging investigation by then–New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer. (Marsh later paid $850 million to settle civil charges.) Known primarily for its activity in the insurance, banking and asset management sectors, Aquiline made its first fintech investment in 2009, in hedge fund administrator HedgeServ Holdings, which has grown to more than $300 billion in assets under administration thanks in part to cutting-edge technology. Last year Aquiline brought in Vincenzo La Ruffa from Pennsylvania-based investment firm Susquehanna Growth Equity to head its fintech effort. His team collaborates closely with Aquiline’s industry teams in sourcing investments, performing due diligence and working with companies after the firm has invested. “This is an industry where chatter and know-how, on not just what deals are getting done in the market but what portfolio companies are experiencing, are extraordinarily powerful,” says La Ruffa, 35, who has bachelor’s degrees in classics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and began his career in the M&A group at Deutsche Bank. Four 2015 investments make this Aquiline’s most active year in fintech; they include Dublin-based Fenergo Group, which produces software that helps banks on-board clients and counterparties, and Virtus Partners, a Houston company providing middle- and back-office solutions for credit hedge funds.


 
The 2015 Fintech Finance 35


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1. James Robinson III
& James Robinson IV
RRE Ventures

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2. Jane Gladstone
Evercore Partners

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3. Matthew Harris
Bain Capital Ventures

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4. Steven McLaughlin
Financial Technology Partners

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5. Jonathan Korngold
General Atlantic

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6. Richard Garman &
Brad Bernstein
FTV Capital

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7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park
Anthemis Group

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8. Thomas Jessop
Goldman Sachs Group

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9. Meyer (Micky) Malka
Ribbit Capital

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10. Hans Morris
Nyca Partners

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11. Maria Gotsch
Partnership Fund for New York City

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12. Marc Andreessen
Andreessen Horowitz

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13. Barry Silbert
Digital Currency Group

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14. Jay Reinemann
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

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15. Mariano Belinky
Santander InnoVentures

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16. François Robinet
AXA Strategic Ventures

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17. Vanessa Colella
Citi Ventures

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18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi
Credit Suisse
NEXT Fund

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19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena
SenaHill Partners

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20. Rodger Voorhies
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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21. Michael Schlein
Accion International

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22. Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates

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23. Rumi Morales
CME Ventures

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24. Mark Beeston
Illuminate Financial Management

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25. Vladislav Solodkiy
Life.SREDA

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26. Fabian Vandenreydt
Innotribe SWIFT

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27. Derek White
Barclays

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28. Alex Batlin
UBS

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29. Jeffrey Greenberg
& Vincenzo
La Ruffa
Aquiline Capital Partners

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30. P. Howard Edelstein
REDI Holdings

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31. Nektarios Liolios
Startupbootcamp FinTech

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32. Roy Bahat
Bloomberg Beta

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33. Andrew McCormack
Valar Ventures

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34. Lawrence Wintermeyer
Innovate Finance

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35. Janos Barberis
FinTech Hong Kong