40. Jim Minnick
Chief Executive Officer
eVestment
Last year: 42
Jim Minnick, chief executive officer of eVestment, says the data and analytics provider for institutional investors captures more information than any other firm in its field. Quantity only begins to attract consultants and other clients to eVestment, which Minnick, his wife Karen, and two former Watson Wyatt & Co. colleagues co-founded in Atlanta in 2000. Data on a diverse range of asset classes, along with user-friendly interfaces and tools, keeps the customers coming back and attracts new ones. "We are always looking at the infrastructure, continually reassessing the technology and ways to streamline the platform," Minnick, 47, says. In April the company started offering an iPhone app, part of a strategy to accommodate the different needs of users of a range of media. Also addressing usability is the Sales Dashboard, introduced in February, for asset management sales professionals to collect and present data without having to call on analytics specialists. Minnick noted at the time that clients were asking for ways to get at the data "faster and easier and oftentimes on the fly." Additional dashboards tailored for C-suite executives, portfolio managers, and others are scheduled to roll out this year.
The 2017 Tech 40
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4. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 
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6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 
7. David Craig Thomson Reuters 
8. Michael Spencer NEX Group 
9. Don Callahan Citigroup 
10. Elisha Wiesel Goldman Sachs Group |
11. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 
12. Terrence Duffy CME Group 
13. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing 
14. Sean Belka Fidelity Investments 
15. Chris Concannon CBOE Holdings |
16. Guy Chiarello First Data Corp. 
17. Steven Lieblich Citadel 
18. David Rutter R3CEV 
19. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings 
20. Alfred Spector Two Sigma Investments |
21. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw Group 
22. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 
23. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 
24. David Gledhill DBS Bank 
25. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings |
26. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp. 
27. Peter Brown & Renaissance Technologies 
28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 
29. Peter Cherecwich Northern Trust Corp. 
30. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence |
31. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group 
32. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management 
33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services 
34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 
35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma |
36. Brian Conlon First Derivatives and Kx Systems 
37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS 
38. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 
39. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions 
40. Jim Minnick eVestment |
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