< The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge

With John Lehner as CEO for the past six years and in other senior executive roles dating back to 2000, Eagle Investment Systems strengthened its position as a technology provider to an institutional who’s who that includes AMP Capital Investors, Janus Capital Group, TIAA-CREF and Yale University. Lehner pushed the innovation envelope, most notably with Eagle ACCESS, a private cloud that became the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. subsidiary’s growth engine as firms increasingly opened up to outsourcing alternatives. In January, BNY Mellon, an asset servicing giant with $28.5 trillion under custody or administration, handed Lehner a bigger portfolio. While still serving Eagle as chairman (Mal Cullen, most recently head of the Americas and of Eagle ACCESS, is now chief executive), the 49-year-old is CEO of the newly created Technology Solutions Group. Reporting to chief information officer Suresh Kumar, Lehner is looking across both the transaction life cycle and BNY Mellon–owned assets for opportunities to “bring new capabilities to the market in a more integrated way.” His group includes Eagle and the OnCore middle-office outsourcing platform as well as risk and data management services. “At a time of digital disruption,” Lehner says, “more and more conversations with clients are about ‘What can you do to help me?’” Over the past ten years and particularly since the 2008 crisis, firms that tended to run systems in-house have come around “to want and need a variable-cost model in technology infrastructure and operations,” he says. “We have the benefit of size and scale, we are global, and our technology assets can enable them to focus on what they do best to grow faster.”

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The 2015 Tech 50

1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. Model Portfolios to Deliver Alternative Asset Exposure Sponsored by BlackRock April 29, 2025 3. Phupinder Gill CME Group 4. Lance Uggla Markit 5. Robert Goldstein BlackRock

6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 7. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group 8. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 9. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 10. Adena Friedman Nasdaq OMX Group

11. David Craig Thomson Reuters 12. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. 18. Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group 19. Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. 20. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co.

21. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 22. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 23. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 24. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 25. Frank Bisignano First Data Corp.

26. John Marcante Vanguard Group 27. Joseph Squeri Citadel 28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 29. Claude Honegger Credit Suisse 30. Chris Corrado MSCI

31. David Gledhill DBS Bank 32. John Bates Software AG 33. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 34. Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group 35. Sunil Hirani trueEX Group

36. Hauke Stars Deutsche BÖrse 37. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 38. Jim Minnick eVestment 39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais 40. Tyler Kim MaplesFS

41. Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. 42. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 43. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 44. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 45. Stephane Dubois Xignite

46. Mazy Dar OpenFin 47. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 48. Mas Nakachi OpenGamma 49. John Lehner BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group 50. Jock Percy Perseus