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DST Global SolutionsAnovaBest Middle-Office SolutionQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Arun Sarwal, CEO.Q: Where is the company’s main headquarters?A: Surbiton, United Kingdom.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: Our mission is to provide the world’s investment and wealth industry participants with technology solutions and expertise to help them better manage, interpret and make decisions on their investment data. We uphold a commitment to developing technology that can scale with the needs of our clients, provide process efficiency and reduce operational risk.Bob Leaper, Head of Business DevelopmentEagle Investment SystemsBest Buy-Side Operations SolutionQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: John Lehner is the president and CEO of Eagle Investment Systems.Lehner is supported by a management team including:• Mal Cullen, managing director, head of the Americas and Eagle ACCESS.• Marc Firenze, chief technology officer.• John Legrand, managing director, head of EMEA/APAC.• Jeremy Skaling, managing director, head of product management. Q: Where is the company’s main headquarters?A: Eagle is headquartered outside of Boston but has a presence across five continents. Aside from the U.S. and Canada, it has offices in India, China, Poland, Singapore, London and Dubai and as of the end of 2013, over a third of its global resource base was located outside of North America.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: Eagle is committed to helping financial institutions worldwide grow assets efficiently. To that end, our mission is to be the recognized global leader of high-quality and innovative data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions for the financial services industry.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: Today, we count 155 global investment managers, mutual funds, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, public funds, broker-dealers and private wealth managers among our clients.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: Eagle provides an innovative suite of data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions delivered over Eagle ACCESS that helps clients create operational efficiencies and reduce complexity and risk.Our data-centric approach helps our clients to generate information, including an IBOR [investment book of record], which enables them to make better business decisions.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: One of the biggest achievements has been our continued growth 09 — both through bringing in new clients and by retaining existingclients and expanding our relationships with them.In 2013, Eagle grew its annualized recurring revenue base by 14 percent as we continued to attract new clients to the platform.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: DST Global Solutions serves over 200 clients across 28 countries. Anova, our investment data management solution, is utilized by more than 20 firms globally with assets under management ranging from $10 billion to nearly $3 trillion, covering multi-class and multi-currency strategies.Q: How does your company help customers with their post-trade challenges?A: Anova offers investment data management, performance measurement, attribution (equity and fixed income), investment book of record (IBOR) support and client reporting. Anova creates a holistic view of investment data from any number of downstream or third party sources. It does this through aggregating and consolidating post-trade accounting and analytics data within a single, complete data repository.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: Anova’s growth rate in 2013 accelerated as existing clients, including a number of tier-one asset managers and third party administrators, recommitted and extended licenses to their existing contracts. We expect that the adoption of Anova will continue to rise in 2014 as investment management and wealth management firms look to enhance the service they provide to clients and address new regulatory pressures through strengthening their internal operations.In addition, we received laudable industry recognition in 2013. Awards won include the European Asset Servicing Technology Vendor of the Year award from Custody Risk magazine for our HiPortfolio asset servicing solution; Best in Class recognition by CEB TowerGroup in their “Performance Measurement Technology Analysis” report released in 2013; and, of course, the FTF News Technology Innovation Award for Best Middle-Office Solution.We also introduced and announced new IBOR functionality to the market and made significant improvements to our fixed income attribution functionality as well.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: Our chief priority is to help our clients and partners overcome their operational challenges by developing innovative post-trade investment data management technology that delivers scalability, transparency and operational efficiency. We will continue to invest in and develop our product lines to meet the critical needs of the marketplace.★A: Our goals this year are to focus on helping our clients to grow their assets efficiently through the use of our comprehensive data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions delivered over our secure private cloud, Eagle ACCESS.We also remain focused on growing our business globally. We continue to see nearly all new clients, and many current clients, migrate to Eagle ACCESS, which has seen revenue increase over 30 percent in the last year.★Jeremy Skaling,Managing Director,Head of Product ManagementAWARDS SUPPLEMENT 2014 | FTF NEWS MAGAZINE