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22SmarshBest Social Media and Compliance SolutionFinTech Person of the Year: Stephen MarshQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO; Andy Augustine, chief technology officer; Barbara Chiapuzio, chief financial officer; Simon Pearce, chief operating officer; Ken Anderson, vice president, marketing; Lynn Dusek, vice president, client success; Sam Kolbert-Hyle, vice president, business development and strategic initiatives; Eric Larnard, vice president, product management; Doug Lee, vice president, worldwide sales; Jean-Luc Marion, vice president, development; Chris Miller, director of human resources; Carla Nichols, vice president, client services.Q: Where is your company’s main headquarters?A: Smarsh is headquartered in Portland, Ore., with offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and London.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: We safeguard the critical communications of information- driven enterprises to help them manage risk and to enable them to communicate how they want.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: Smarsh has more than 20,000 customers, primarily in heavily regulated and litigious industries such as financial services.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: Smarsh helps companies meet regulatory compliance, e-discovery and record retention requirements for a wide range of electronic communications, including email, social media, instant messaging, text/SMS messaging, and Web content.The Smarsh Archiving Platform supports archiving in one central location for all electronic communications.Built atop the same enterprise-grade search technology that powers websites like Netflix, Instagram, and Expedia, the Smarsh Archiving Platform gives compliance professionals a consistent set of search, review, policy, reporting and admin tools across electronic communications.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: Smarsh made significant enhancements to its back-end infrastructure and its product feature set, and increased its breadth of content types supported within the Smarsh Archiving Platform in 2013.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: Smarsh will continue to grow its global enterprise market presence in 2014, building upon its reputation for cutting- edge innovation, top-notch data security, and customer support. Smarsh will continue to displace legacy, on-premise archiving solutions that haveSmartStreamBest Operational Risk Management Solution (TLM Cash & Liquidity Management)Best Enterprise Data Management Solution SmartStream Reference Data UtilityKurt Eldridge,Sales Director, AmericasQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Philippe Chambadal, CEO; Richard Bemindt, chief technology officer; Brent Marshall, chief financial officer.Q: Where is your company’s main headquarters?A: London and New York.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: SmartStream delivers greater efficiency, automation and control to critical post-trade operations, including reference data operations, trade process management, confirmations and reconciliation management, corporate actions processing, fees and invoice management, cash and liquidity management, and compliance solutions.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: We have more than 1,500 clients, including more than 70 of the world’s top 100 banks, eight of the top 10 asset managers, and eight of the top 10 custodians.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: SmartStream addresses the challenges faced by financial institutions through Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions that cover the entire post-trade life cycle, enabling more efficient, streamlined and cost-effective middle- and back- office operations.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: SmartStream launched a fast onboarding tool with TLM SmartRecs. This intuitive configuration component leverages the capabilities of TLM Reconciliations and its industry-leading matching engine. This enables organizations to onboard reconciliations more rapidly and efficiently without compromising on the accuracy of match results.With the demand for new industry utilities, SmartStream was the first to launch a single reconciliations solution for all back-office operations with its TLM Reconciliations Premium.Further, SmartStream released an accounts receivable solution to enable financial institutions to provide intelligent payments for their corporate clients.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: Earlier this year, SmartStream announced the launch of the TLM Intraday Liquidity Management module, a strategic tool to enable banks to comply with Basel regulations for monitoring intraday liquidity management, with the first reporting deadline coming in January 2015.Through adopting a collaborative approach, SmartStream will continue to address industry challenges to develop enhanced utilities and a single platform approach.A single point of efficacy means that one team can manage the entire back-office function. SmartStream is rolling out next-generation solutions based on its platform 4.0 technology, with plans to plug in its reconciliation engine, corporate actions processing, and cash management solutions.★not scaled and evolved.Smarsh aims to provide compliance departments with a faster, simpler and more effective search and review process for all content in the archive. Smarsh will leverage its domain expertise and technology to provide customers with more value from the content in their archives, strengthening risk identification/mitigation efforts.★Stephen Marsh, CEOAWARDS SUPPLEMENT 2014 | FTF NEWS MAGAZINE