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Fidelity National Information Services, known as FIS, is a globe-spanning financial services technology company with $9.3 billion in revenue, more than 20,000 customers and 55,000 employees. The head count rose by 13,000 last November, when FIS bought SunGard Data Systems from its private equity owners for $9.1 billion and gained a significant securities industry and capital markets presence. “We’re excited about doing much of what we’ve done in retail banking and bringing that into capital markets,” says FIS president and CEO Gary Norcross. “I don’t ever see any downside to breadth.” The SunGard deal brought FIS Marianne Brown, a former CEO of ADP Brokerage Services and posttrade servicer Omgeo, to serve as chief operating officer of institutional and wholesale. M&A is nothing new to Jacksonville, Florida–based FIS, whose strong suits historically were in banking, card and payment systems, outsourcing and consulting. The company traces its roots to Systematics, a Little Rock, Arkansas, data processor founded in 1968 and subsequently known as Alltel Information Services. Norcross, who has a BS in business administration from the University of Arkansas, was president of Alltel’s integrated financial solutions division in 2003, when the company was acquired by title insurer and FIS predecessor Fidelity National Financial. He had a hand in other deals, including the 2006 merger with payments company Certegy and the 2009 acquisition of banking systems provider Metavante Technologies. He rose to COO in 2009, added the president title in 2012 and has been CEO since January 2015. FIS pioneered remote deposit capture — allowing images of checks to be transmitted from hand-held devices — “ten years too early,” Norcross, who turns 51 in July, quips. Current projects include real-time payments — FIS is working with New York’s Clearing House Payments Co. on a pilot scheduled for first-quarter 2017 — and cardless (smartphone-enabled) ATM transactions. Noting that the payments space is crowded with fintech start-ups, Norcross says, “A percentage of these will be successful, and many others will go the way of the dodo bird.”

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The 2016 Tech 50

1. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. 2. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange Model Portfolios to Deliver Alternative Asset Exposure Sponsored by BlackRock April 29, 2025 3. Lance Uggla Markit 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