The 2015 Tech 50: Jim Minnick

The eVestment CEO climbs to No. 38 on this year’s Tech 50 ranking.

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Jim Minnick
Chief Executive Officer
eVestment
Last year: 45

Jim Minnick is betting big on alternatives. The CEO of eVestment has created the world’s largest institutional asset management database, with performance, asset flows and other information on more than 62,000 investment vehicles, including 26,000 hedge fund and other alternative strategies. Later this year the former Watson Wyatt & Co. consultant plans to add private equity to the mix, following the May acquisition of TopQ, a two-year-old Edinburgh, Scotland, firm that has a suite of cloud-based tools for investors to analyze and monitor private equity funds in a standardized and transparent way. “Because the company is relatively new, the product they’ve built has the latest technology, so there’s a really nice user experience,” says Minnick, 45, who co-founded Atlanta-based eVestment in 2000 with his wife, Karen, and two Watson Wyatt colleagues. “We should be able to utilize some of that technology across the eVestment platform.” With nearly 1,000 institutional investors and consultants as clients and more than 400 asset managers using its Omni product to minimize the time and effort required to report their performance figures to some 60 consultant and third-party databases, eVestment grew its revenue by “north of 20 percent” in 2014, says Minnick. The company added 100 people over the past 12 months and now employs 350 in offices in Atlanta, Dubai, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, New York, London and Sydney. In February it launched Scorecard, which enables asset managers to evaluate their investment strategies across several areas, including asset flows, distribution impact, marketability and performance. “Scorecard brings together the output and analytics from multiple eVestment products,” Minnick explains. “It helps asset managers to evaluate opportunities to grow assets.”

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The 2015 Tech 50

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1. Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange

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2. Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.

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3. Phupinder Gill
CME Group

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4. Lance Uggla
Markit

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5. Robert Goldstein
BlackRock

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6. Shawn Edwards &
Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg

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7. R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group

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8. Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures

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9. Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments

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10. Adena Friedman
Nasdaq OMX Group

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11. David Craig
Thomson Reuters

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12. Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings

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13. Michael Spencer
ICAP

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14. Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

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15. Charles Li
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

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16. Chris Concannon
BATS Global Markets

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17. Christopher Perretta
State Street Corp.

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18. Antoine Shagoury
London Stock Exchange Group

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19. Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.

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20. Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw & Co.

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21. Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets

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22. Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings

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23. Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings

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24. Robert Alexander
Capital One Financial Corp.

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25. Frank Bisignano
First Data Corp.

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26. John Marcante
Vanguard Group

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27. Joseph Squeri
Citadel

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28. Lou Eccleston
TMX Group

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29. Claude Honegger
Credit Suisse

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30. Chris Corrado
MSCI

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31. David Gledhill
DBS Bank

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32. John Bates
Software AG

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33. Michael Cooper
BT Radianz

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34. Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group

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35. Sunil Hirani
trueEX Group

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36. Hauke Stars
Deutsche BÖrse

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37. Brian Conlon
First Derivatives

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38. Jim Minnick
eVestment

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39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais

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40. Tyler Kim
MaplesFS

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41. Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.

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42. Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix

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43. Sebastián Ceria
Axioma

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44. Yasuki Okai
NRI Holdings America

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45. Stephane Dubois
Xignite

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46. Mazy Dar
OpenFin

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47. Brian Sentance
Xenomorph Software

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48. Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma

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49. John Lehner
BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group

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50. Jock Percy
Perseus


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