The 2015 Tech 50: Tyler Kim

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Tyler Kim
Chief Information Officer
MaplesFS
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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.

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