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The 2014 Tech 50: Kenneth Marlin

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Kenneth Marlin
Managing Partner
Marlin & Associates
(PNR)

Deal making is as integral to the evolution of the financial technology industry as the technologies themselves, and Kenneth Marlin has been in the thick of it since the 1980s. The managing partner of New York–based Marlin & Associates boasts a 90 percent close rate, exhibiting a relentlessness that he says was shaped by a decade in the U.S. Marine Corps. “We just keep going,” says the University of California, Los Angeles, MBA and author of Seize the High Ground: A Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, due from St. Martin’s Press next year. During ten years at Dun & Bradstreet, when it owned the likes of Interactive Data Corp. and Moody’s Investors Service, Marlin led more than 60 transactions. In the 1990s he was CEO of both Swiss-owned market data company Telekurs (North America) and spin-off Telesphere Corp. He began a stint with private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in 1999 and three years later formed his own investment banking boutique. Marlin & Associates has advised on more than 200 deals, including the April acquisition of capital markets data company Ipreo Holdings by Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs Group’s merchant banking division. Ever the fintech optimist, Marlin notes that “a bank might have 200 software vendors. There are opportunities for those who can make these products work together like a more holistic solution.”

The 2014 Tech 50

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Thomas Secunda
Bloomberg
Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange
Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.
Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments
Lance Uggla
Markit
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10
Robert Goldstein
BlackRock
David Craig
Thomson Reuters
Phupinder Gill
CME Group
Anna Ewing
NASDAQ
OMX Group
R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group
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15
Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures
Dan Mathisson
Credit Suisse
Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings
Michael Spencer
ICAP
Michael Bodson
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corp.
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Joe Ratterman
BATS Global Markets
Dominique Cerutti
Euronext
Ron Levi
GFI Group
Gaurav Suri
D.E. Shaw Group
Charles Li
Hong Kong
Exchanges and
Clearing
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Lou Eccleston
S&P Capital IQ
Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets
Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings
Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings
Antoine
Shagoury

London Stock
Exchange Group
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30
Christopher
Perretta

State Street Corp.
Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.
Peter Carr
Morgan Stanley
Hauke Stars
Deutsche Börse
Robert Alexander
Capital One
Financial Corp.
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David Gershon
SuperDerivatives
Chris Corrado
MSCI
Joseph Squeri
Citadel
Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services
John Bates
Software AG
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40
Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group
David Gledhill
DBS Bank
Simon Garland
Kx Systems
Cristóbal Conde
FinTech Innovation Lab
Jeff Parker
EidoSearch
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Kim Fournais &
Lars Seier Christensen

Saxo Bank
Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates
Tyler Kim
MaplesFS
Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.
Jim Minnick
eVestment
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Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix
Sebastián Ceria
Axioma
Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute
Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners
Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma

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