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The 2015 Tech 50: Tyler Kim
The MaplesFS chief information officer jumps to No. 40 on this year’s Tech 50 ranking.
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.
See the full story, “The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge.”
 1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange  2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.  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 |