Cynthia Meyn, executive vice president for operations at bond fund manager PIMCO, was voted Ops Business Person of the Year as part of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2014.
In addition, entrepreneur Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO of Smarsh, the email and social media compliance provider, was chosen FinTech Person of the Year while Bart Chilton, the former CFTC commissioner, is being recognized for his decades of service to the industry via an Editor’s Choice award.
These three and Service Provider of the Year SS&C Technologies top the list of awards for achievements in 2013.
Except for the Editor’s Choice award, qualified online voters selected the ultimate winners. Industry participants via an online process, a panel of judges and FTF News helped choose the nominees.
Financial Technologies Forum and FTF News established the awards to celebrate and recognize the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry bodies and regulators that have made significant strides and noteworthy achievements in operational excellence.
The awards gala dinner will be held June 16 aboard the Hornblower Infinity yacht, at Pier 40, 353 West St., New York, NY.
Ops Business Person of the Year
Cynthia Meyn, EVP, PIMCO
An industry veteran with nearly three decades of experience, Meyn has been with PIMCO (since August 2008 and works out of the New York office, overseeing the U.S. operations team. Before her current post, she served as head of back-office operations and head of the New York trade floor operations. She also serves on the DTCC board of directors, the Omgeo board of managers and the CUSIP board of governors. Meyn also has posts on the ISDA Operations Steering Committee (OSC), SIFMA Operations and Technology Steering Committee (OTSC) and SIMFA Asset Managers Forum (AMF).
Before joining PIMCO, Meyn was the managing director of North American operations at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. She also served as global co-director of fixed income and derivatives technology at AllianceBernstein, managing director of global fixed income technology at Cantor Fitzgerald, and chief technology officer and chief risk officer at Mizuho Capital Markets.
FinTech Person of the Year
Steven Marsh, CEO, Smarsh
Entrepreneur Marsh founded Smarsh in 2001 as a cloud-based archiving and compliance solution provider for electronic communications. Before Smarsh, he was head of product management and development at CCBN, now a division of Thomson Financial. He also served in key positions at Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
In addition to his work as CEO of Smarsh, he works as a mentor to technology entrepreneurs, and is a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Brokers/Dealers (NAIBD), and the Technology Association of Oregon. Marsh is also a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.
In April 2009, Marsh was selected by the Portland Business Journal as one of Portland’s 40 under 40 young leaders in the business community. He was also a finalist in the 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Pacific Northwest.
Editor’s Choice Award
Bart Chilton, CFTC Commissioner
After more than 25 years of government service, Chilton left the CFTC earlier this year to become a senior policy advisor for law firm DLA Piper. His seven-year tenure at the CFTC turned out to be eventful and Chilton was frequently a vocal proponent of regulatory reform, and known for his colorful language.
Recently, Chilton, while still with the CFTC, was highly critical of President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2015 budget plan of $280 million for the regulator, mostly because it fails to fund key technologies that would help the CFTC do a better job of surveillance, particularly of the new world of over-the-counter derivatives.
“Our staff is on its knees, some reaching for the exit doors and others already having bailed,” Chilton said at the time. “Employee morale is the lowest I’ve witnessed, dropping 13 percent in just the last year.”
In 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Chilton to be on the CFTC and he was confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Two years later, he was re-nominated by President Obama and reconfirmed by the Senate. He has served as the chairman of the CFTC’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. His career span includes working on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, and serving in the executive branch during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations.
The Other 2014 Winners:
Service Provider of the Year
SS&C Technologies
Best Financial Crime-Fighting Solution
Fiserv
Best Buy-Side Operations Solution
Eagle Investment Systems
Best Clearing and Settlement Solution
TCS BaNCS
Best Client Reporting Solution
Advent Software APX
Best Cloud Provider
Liquid Holdings
Best Collateral Management Solution
Omgeo ProtoColl
Best Regulatory Compliance Solution for Operations
Sapient Global Markets CMRS
Best Consultancy for Operations
Sapient Global Markets
Best Corporate Actions Processing Solution
Fidelity ActionsXchange
Best Cutting-Edge Solution
LCH.Clearnet SMART
Best Derivatives Operations Solution
Tradeweb
Best Enterprise Data Management Solution
SmartStream Reference Data Utility
Best Operational Data Provider
RIMES Reference Data Service
Best FinTech Ops Start-Up
Liquid Holdings
Best Middle-Office Solution
DST Anova
Best Operational Risk Management Solution
SmartStream TLM Cash & Liquidity Management
Best Outsourcing Provider
SEI
Best Performance Measurement and Attribution System
BI-SAM
Best Pricing or Valuation Solution
Numerix CrossAsset
Best Reconciliation Solution
Gresham CTC
Best Social Media and Compliance Solution
Smarsh
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