The 2015 Tech 50: John Lehner

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John Lehner
Chief Executive Officer
BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group
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With John Lehner as CEO for the past six years and in other senior executive roles dating back to 2000, Eagle Investment Systems strengthened its position as a technology provider to an institutional who’s who that includes AMP Capital Investors, Janus Capital Group, TIAA-CREF and Yale University. Lehner pushed the innovation envelope, most notably with Eagle ACCESS, a private cloud that became the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. subsidiary’s growth engine as firms increasingly opened up to outsourcing alternatives. In January, BNY Mellon, an asset servicing giant with $28.5 trillion under custody or administration, handed Lehner a bigger portfolio. While still serving Eagle as chairman (Mal Cullen, most recently head of the Americas and of Eagle ACCESS, is now chief executive), the 49-year-old is CEO of the newly created Technology Solutions Group. Reporting to chief information officer Suresh Kumar, Lehner is looking across both the transaction life cycle and BNY Mellon–owned assets for opportunities to “bring new capabilities to the market in a more integrated way.” His group includes Eagle and the OnCore middle-office outsourcing platform as well as risk and data management services. “At a time of digital disruption,” Lehner says, “more and more conversations with clients are about ‘What can you do to help me?’” Over the past ten years and particularly since the 2008 crisis, firms that tended to run systems in-house have come around “to want and need a variable-cost model in technology infrastructure and operations,” he says. “We have the benefit of size and scale, we are global, and our technology assets can enable them to focus on what they do best to grow faster.”

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