< The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge

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

1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. Methanol Gains Traction as an Alternative Energy Source Sponsored by CME Group May 5, 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