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Chief information officer of Montreal-based niche asset servicer MaplesFS since 2009, Tyler Kim in April took on the additional title of co–global head of its Maples Fund Services unit. “It underscores the fact that fund services is very much a technology business,” Kim explains. That fact is exactly what offshore law firm Maples and Calder, which formed the MaplesFS fund and fiduciary services group in 2005, had in mind when it hired the Stanford University industrial engineering graduate and former CTO of hedge fund Northwater Capital Management. Kim installed an architecture so robust that by last year MaplesFS had brought core functions, including Maples Fiduciary and the Geneva portfolio management system, in-house — unconventional steps for a firm with just $50 billion of assets under administration. But there is more to MaplesFS than AUA. Now sharing oversight of fund services with 11-year company veteran Toni Pinkerton and having turned day-to-day IT responsibilities over to Emilie Savard, Kim aims to break down administrative and middle-office product silos and think about a broader client set. “We see ourselves not as a mix of old and new businesses but rather one business that needs to evolve and serve markets in new ways,” he says. Ahead of the pack in supporting such international regulatory requirements as the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the historically Cayman Islands–centered operation has opened an outpost in Boston to attract onshore funds because “location matters for pension clients,” Kim, 41, says. MaplesFS is also on the ground in the San Francisco area, preparing to pounce on servicing and outsourcing opportunities arising from new instruments created by peer-to-peer lenders.

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The 2015 Tech 50

1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. Gold and Bitcoin Decouple. What's Driving the Divergence's? Sponsored by CME Group April 24, 2025 3. Phupinder Gill CME Group 4. Lance Uggla Markit 5. Robert Goldstein BlackRock

6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 7. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group 8. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 9. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 10. Adena Friedman Nasdaq OMX Group

11. David Craig Thomson Reuters 12. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. 18. Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group 19. Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. 20. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co.

21. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 22. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 23. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 24. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 25. Frank Bisignano First Data Corp.

26. John Marcante Vanguard Group 27. Joseph Squeri Citadel 28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 29. Claude Honegger Credit Suisse 30. Chris Corrado MSCI

31. David Gledhill DBS Bank 32. John Bates Software AG 33. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 34. Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group 35. Sunil Hirani trueEX Group

36. Hauke Stars Deutsche BÖrse 37. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 38. Jim Minnick eVestment 39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais 40. Tyler Kim MaplesFS

41. Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. 42. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 43. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 44. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 45. Stephane Dubois Xignite

46. Mazy Dar OpenFin 47. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 48. Mas Nakachi OpenGamma 49. John Lehner BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group 50. Jock Percy Perseus