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Rob Heyvaert

Founder, Managing Partner, Motive Partners

Rob Heyvaert is the Founder and Managing Partner of Motive Partners. Rob serves on the Board of Directors for InvestCloud, Accordion and FNZ. An experienced financial technology executive and entrepreneur, Rob has held senior leadership positions in the world’s leading financial technology firms and has founded, scaled and exited two industry-leading global financial services and technology consulting firms. Rob started his first company, Cimad Consultants, at age 24 and built a real-time capital markets settlement engine that became the backbone of European clearing and settlement. Under his leadership, Cimad evolved into one of the leading consulting and software firms, and was later sold to IBM, where Rob was appointed global General Manager of Securities and Capital Markets. Rob then founded Capco at age 34, which went on to become a leader in financial technology advisory and execution. Servicing the full financial services value chain with more than 5,000 professionals worldwide, Capco was acquired by FIS in 2010, the largest global provider of transaction processing services to financial institutions. Rob was appointed FIS Corporate Executive Vice President of Global Financial Solutions, where he had overall P&L responsibility for the international business and top 200 largest U.S. banks. A member of the Executive Management Committee, Rob was also responsible for the company’s Enterprise Strategy and led the $9.1 billion SunGard acquisition, one of the largest financial technology acquisitions to date.

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Wealth Management: Merging Public and Private Market Strategies

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