The 2014 Tech 50: Jim Minnick

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Jim Minnick
Chief Executive Officer
eVestment
Last year: 49

For asset managers looking to maximize their reach among institutional investors with minimal effort, eVestment CEO Jim Minnick has the solution: Omni, a web-based data collection and distribution system that lets managers update performance data and other information in more than 60 consultant and third-party databases with just a few mouse clicks. “We’ve invested a tremendous amount in getting a new version, Omni 2.0, released to the marketplace,” says Minnick, 44, whose firm’s own database consists of some 59,000 investment vehicles from more than 9,000 traditional and alternative-asset managers globally. Atlanta-based eVestment offers a variety of analytics packages — Quantum, Spectrum and Spotlight — that investors and asset allocators can use to screen for new managers as well as monitor those in existing portfolios. Minnick, who has an MBA from Atlanta’s Emory University and was a consultant with Watson Wyatt & Co. before co-founding eVestment in 2000, says his 250-person firm has been focused on “expanding and enhancing” its technology platforms to integrate its traditional asset management and hedge fund analytics. At the same time, eVestment looks to develop new proprietary data products based on the information it collects from its 2,500 customers. One such product, Advantage, delivers marketing metrics and forecasts future flows among different asset classes and investment strategies based on the research activities of consultants and investors within eVestment.

The 2014 Tech 50

1 Dave Cross	1	3 IAN CURCIO 2011	4 FayFoto/Boston	5 Teri Pengilley
Thomas Secunda Bloomberg	Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange	Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.	Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments	Lance Uggla Markit
6	7	8 Photographer:Charlie Simokaitis	9	10 Mark McQueen
Robert Goldstein BlackRock	David Craig Thomson Reuters	Phupinder Gill CME Group	Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group	R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group
11	12	13	14	15 Christopher Elston
Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures	Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse	Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings	Michael Spencer ICAP	Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
16	17	18 Todd Plitt	19	20
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
21 Larry Lettera/ Camera 1	22	23	24 XT	25
Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ	Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets	Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings	Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings	Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group
26 Production	27 Wayne R. Martin	28	29 Thorsten Jansen	30 Adam B. Auel
Christopher Perretta State Street Corp.	Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co.	Peter Carr Morgan Stanley	Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse	Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp.
31	32	33 Paul Elledge	34	35 Stephen Brashear
David Gershon SuperDerivatives	Chris Corrado MSCI	Joseph Squeri Citadel	Tanuja Randery BT Global Services	John Bates Software AG
36	37	38	39 Photo Credit: Kevin Irby	40
Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group	David Gledhill DBS Bank	Simon Garland Kx Systems	Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab	Jeff Parker EidoSearch
41	42 Jeff Smith Photo	43	44	45
Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank	Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates	Tyler Kim MaplesFS	Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp.	Jim Minnick eVestment
46	47	48 tomohisa ichiki	49 David Poultney	50 A.E. Fletcher Photography
Steven O’Hanlon Numerix	Sebastián Ceria Axioma	Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute	Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners	Mas Nakachi OpenGamma