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18Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO)Ops Business Person of the Year — Cynthia Meyn Executive Vice President, Operations, PIMCOFrom left to right:Maureen Lowe, president and founder of Financial Technologies Forum, and Cynthia Meyn, Ops Business Person of the YearQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Bill Gross, chief investment officer; Doug Hodge, CEO; and Jay Jacobs, president.Q: Where is your company’s main headquarters?A: Newport Beach, Calif.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: We are a global investment solutions provider with more than 2,000 dedicated professionals in 12 countries focused on a single mission — to manage risks and deliver returns for our clients.Our time-tested investment process guides both cyclical (short-term) and secular (three- to five-year) macroeconomic views and we combine those forecasts with in-depth research, security analysis and portfolio risk management.From our founding in 1971, PIMCO’s team of investment professionals has been dedicated to client service, allowing our portfolio managers to focus on protecting client portfolios and delivering returns.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: PIMCO manages $1.97 trillion of assets for clients all over the world.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: PIMCO is actively working in a leadership capacity with others in the industry to reduce systemic risk in the post- trade space.For example, we routinely host user groups through trade associations such as SIFMA [Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association] to partner with others in the industry in order to increase takeup and utilization of technology such as electronic confirmation messaging, digitized settlement instructions, SWIFT messaging to custodians, and the use of FpML [Financial Products Markup Language] in the cleared swap space.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: Portfolio managers Daniel Ivascyn and Alfred Murata won Morningstar’s prestigious Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year award for their Income Fund.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: Our top goal is the same as it has been for the last 43 years — to deliver superior returns and service to our clients.★RIMES — Reference Data Service Best Operational Data ProviderQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Christian Fauvelais, CEO, co-founder and director; Frederic Mancuso, president, chief technology officer, co-founder and director; Douglas Garrity, chief data officer and director; Mitesh Modi, chief operating officer; Edward Batt, global head of sales.Q: Where is your company’s main headquarters?A: New York City.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: Through the RIMES Benchmark Data Service, we help our clients lower their total cost of data management by providing a fully managed service which takes care of all their data requirements, including data processing and governance.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: 250 customers in 40 countries; half of the largest 100 asset managers by total assets under management are RIMES clients.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: By making our clients’ reference data management a seamless, efficient, regulation-proof and cost- effective process.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: Sustaining double-digit growth and launching two new solutions: RIMES Reference Data Service and RIMES Data Governance Service.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: Leverage our buy-side data management expertise in new sectors such as pension funds and insurance companies.★Georgette Anderson, Sales ManagerAWARDS SUPPLEMENT 2014 | FTF NEWS MAGAZINE