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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 6
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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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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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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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David Gershon
SuperDerivatives Chris Corrado
MSCI Joseph Squeri
Citadel Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services John Bates
Software AG 36
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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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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
