< The 2014 Tech 50: Moving Out of the Lab and Into the Cloud
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Lou Eccleston
President
S&P Capital IQ
Last year: 27
As president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of S&P Dow Jones Indices — which together contributed $1.7 billion to parent McGraw Hill Financial’s $4.9 billion in 2013 revenue — Lou Eccleston occupies a quiet corner office high above the streets of Lower Manhattan. A few floors below him, there are no conventional offices: One corner is a pool lounge (billiards, that is), and silences may be pierced by the sound of a Ping-Pong match not far away. This is the S&P Capital IQ Innovation Lab, which Eccleston, 57, believes will reinvent the financial information services enterprise and its culture. The goal is to be a “tech-enabled information company” so as not to “cede [innovation] to start-ups and pay up for it later,” says the former Bloomberg and Thomson Financial executive, who has headed Capital IQ since 2010. The unit went so far as to create its own code, IQLanguage, “to unlock the power of our data with differentiated analytics.”
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 6
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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 11
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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. 16
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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 21
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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 26
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28
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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. 31
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35
David Gershon
SuperDerivatives Chris Corrado
MSCI Joseph Squeri
Citadel Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services John Bates
Software AG 36
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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 41
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45
Kim Fournais &
Lars Seier Christensen
Saxo Bank Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates Tyler Kim
MaplesFS Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp. Jim Minnick
eVestment 46
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Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix Sebastián Ceria
Axioma Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma