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Mike Chinn
President
S&P Global Market Intelligence
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Effective April 27, McGraw Hill Financial became S&P Global, and business units of the $5.3 billion-in-revenue data company, which is particularly well known for its indexes and rating services, fell into line with the new branding. One group, S&P Global Market Intelligence, had a more involved storyline, however. Last September, New York–based McGraw Hill acquired privately held financial data and analytics firm SNL Financial for $2.2 billion. SNL was combined with S&P Capital IQ to create a $1.4 billion business led by SNL president and CEO Mike Chinn. Founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1987, SNL brought “deep, unique, often proprietary, industry-specific data” in several sectors, including energy, financial, media and real estate, says Chinn, who oversaw 3,300 people at SNL and now has a global workforce exceeding 10,500. As part of S&P, SNL extends its reach — Chinn refers to “richer content and applications across geographies” and “unparalleled depth and breadth of offerings” — and cross-selling potential. He describes the product set as primarily off-trading-floor data and analytics for the likes of investment bankers, researchers, portfolio managers and a growing “off–Wall Street,” or nonfinancial corporate, clientele. Although delivery of this data does not have to keep pace with low-latency trading requirements, “demand for real-time data is increasing in certain customer segments,” says Chinn, 44, who went to work for SNL as a bank M&A analyst in 1994 after earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from the University of Virginia. He rose to president in 2000 and CEO in 2010; as president of S&P Global Market Intelligence, he remains based in Charlottesville. Chinn says his organization is making “significant investments in data science and machine learning. This is still a human-intensive business, and with content flowing in from thousands of sources around the clock, people can be a lot more productive with tools like intelligent filtering.” He adds, “It changes the nature of analysis when asking creative questions — not just analytical horsepower — can result in competitive advantage.” Also in the offing: desktop product upgrades, advanced credit and risk analytics, and improved user interfaces employing the HTML5 browser standard, which, because it works across multiple platforms and types of devices, “enhances the efficiency of the engineering effort.”

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The 2016 Tech 50

1. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. 2. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 3. Lance Uggla Markit Building Resilient Portfolios: Infrastructure’s Strategic Advantage Sponsored by IFM Investors May 9, 2025 4. Phupinder Gill CME Group 5. Shawn Edwards and Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 6. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group

7. Robert Goldstein BlackRock 8. Adena Friedman Nasdaq 9. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 10. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 11. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 12. David Craig Thomson Reuters

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. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings 18. David Rutter R3CEV

19. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co. 20. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 21. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 22. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 23. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 24. Brad Katsuyama IEX Group

25. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp. 26. David Gledhill DBS Bank 27. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 28. Andreas Preuss Deutsche BÖrse 29. Dan Schulman PayPal Holdings 30. Scott Dillon Wells Fargo & Co.

31. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence 32. Craig Donohue Options Clearing Corp. 33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services 34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 36. Michael Cooper BT Radianz

37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS 38. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management 39. David Harding Winton Capital Management 40. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group 41. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 42. Jim Minnick eVestment

43. Stephane Dubois Xignite 44. Mazy Dar OpenFin 45. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 46. Kim Fournais Saxo Bank 47. Jock Percy Perseus 48. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions

49. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 50. Pieter van der Does Adyen