Cormac Kinney

Cormac Kinney is an entrepreneur and software designer.

"Neovision" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Neovison.
Cormac Kinney
Born
Cormac Kinney

St. Louis, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
EducationCarnegie Mellon University

Background

Kinney grew up in University City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, with Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Industrial Management, and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration and Finance.[1][2]

Career

As a student at Carnegie Mellon, Kinney founded two small software companies in succession, sold to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and H.J. Heinz. Both were related to optimization.[3][4]

NeoVision

In 1993, with Carnegie Mellon Senior Research Scientist, Marc H. Graham, Kinney founded NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc.[5] to develop and market software for creating heat maps.[6] The software was licensed to Bloomberg L.P., Dow Jones Telerate, Thomson, and Reuters for over 300,000 desktops.[4][7][8][9]

In 2002, he designed a trade cost analysis system for Fidelity Investments.[10] The system was later installed at Bank of America Investment Management, Invesco, Janus, Merrill Lynch Investment Management and Putnam Investments.

NeoVision was acquired in 2003 by financial software conglomerate SS&C Technologies.[11]

Quantitative Hedge Fund

After the sale of NeoVision, in 2005 Kinney developed a computational linguistics based trading system[12], which he used to manage hedge fund strategies.[13]

Flont

In 2016, Kinney launched Flont, a platform which provides jewelry as a service.[14][4][15]

Awards
  • Carnegie Mellon Entrepreneur of the Year 1994[1]
  • Pennsylvania Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year 1994[1]
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gollark: Putting together simple scripts or whatever to do some random task more easily.
gollark: Random bodging? It's what I do.
gollark: YouTube videos? I'm sure there are text tutorials around.

References
  1. Tascarella, Patty (1994-11-14). "Software Charting Allows Real Time Risk Management". Pittsburgh Business Times.
  2. Scarborough, Norman (2003). Effective Small Business Management. Prentice Hall. p. 409. ISBN 9780130081162.
  3. O’Reilly, Brian (1994-05-02). "The New Face of Small Business". Fortune Magazine.
  4. Sansoni, Silvia (1999-05-17). "Hot Stuff". Forbes Magazine.
  5. "Heatmaps on Wall Street". 1996-09-05.
  6. Morrison, Dianne (1995-11-27). "A Picture is Worth A Thousand Numbers". Waters Magazine.
  7. "Brokermaps at PaineWebber". Inside Market Data. July 8, 2002. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  8. "NeoVision Announces Licensing Agreement with Bridge Information Systems". Nov 16, 2003.
  9. "Bloomberg Licenses Heatmaps for 95000 Users".
  10. John Hechinger, Kate Kelly (October 12, 2004). "How Fidelity's Trading Chief Pinches Pennies on Wall Street". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. "SS&C Acquires trade visualization firm NeoVision".
  12. Vandelanotte, Lieven (2014). Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics. p. 202. ISBN 9789401211130.
  13. Neill, Scott (2018-12-14). "New digital asset business seeks 16 staff". The Royal Gazette.
  14. "High-End Shopping In The Sharing Economy: Now We Can All Have Couture". Fast Company. Sep 15, 2016.
  15. "Flont.Club Dresses San Francisco Society in Style". Vogue.Com. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
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