We’re proud 
to announce the Institutional Investor (“II”), the international publisher focused primarily on international finance, named our Founding Partner, Ken Marlin, as one of II’s Tech 50, which this year honors the 50 most “disruptive” figures in the financial technology sector.
II called these 50 people disrupters because they’re changing the way Wall Street does business. See the article here: The-Disrupters-Institutional-Investors-Tech-50. Other “Disrupters” named include: Reto Francioni and Duncan Niederauer, CEOs of Deutsche Börse and the NYSE Euronext; Joe Ratterman, President and CEO of BATS Global Markets; Robert Greifeld, CEO Nasdaq OMX; Seth Merrin, CEO Liquidnet; Michael Spencer, CEO of ICAP; Lázaro Campos, CEO SWIFT; and Charles Marston, Chairman and CEO of Calypso Technology. (See the full ranking, with profiles, here.)
The II Tech 50 members were selected by the editors and staff of Institutional Investor, with nominations and other input from industry experts. According to II: “‘Disruptive’ is the operative word, and it is a thread running through the Tech 50. The idea harks back to The Innovator’s Dilemma, a 1997 book by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen that explained how long-entrenched, industry-leading companies can fail to anticipate disruptive technologies or seize the opportunities they present.”
Of Marlin & Associates, Institutional Investor said: “The firm’s growing list of deals is a chronicle of technology’s evolution and globalization — in health care and information technology as well as finance…”