eVestment Names Nicole Wu Chief Financial Officer

ATLANTA, May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- eVestment, the global leader in institutional investor data and analytics, has named Nicole Wu Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Wu will have responsibility for eVestment's global financial operations, lead and expand the company's finance team and sit on eVestment's executive committee. Her experience in software, technology solutions and global organizations will be important as eVestment continues to grow and expand around the world.

"eVestment continues to grow its revenue, global footprint, product variety and employee headcount as we work toward our long-term milestone of becoming a billion dollar company," said eVestment co-founder and CEO Jim Minnick. "Nicole brings the tremendous skills and experience in technology and global financial management that will be crucial to keeping eVestment on the growth path we have outlined."

Prior to joining eVestment, Wu served as CFO-Software Solutions for GE Transportation. In total she spent 15 years at GE, rising from audit manager with GE corporate to CFO at GE Healthcare IT before taking on her leadership role at GE Transportation.

Wu holds a bachelor of science in business degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. While at GE, she participated in a variety of GE education courses in global economic issues, management and leadership development, executive communication and financial management and became GE Six Sigma Blackbelt certified.

"eVestment's growth has been tremendous and has really accelerated in the past few years," said Wu. "This is an exciting time to join the company and I look forward to bringing my skills and experience to the company and to helping eVestment continue to increase its influence in the financial-technology space even more."

In the past 18 months, eVestment has launched a number of new solutions for institutional investors, almost doubled its employee headcount, opened a new office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and significantly expanded its London office. The company will likely increase employee headcount by another 80 to 100 people by the end of the year.

About eVestment 

eVestment provides a flexible suite of easy-to-use, cloud-based solutions to help the institutional investing community identify and capitalize on global investment trends, better select and monitor investment managers and more successfully enable asset managers to market their funds worldwide. eVestment's mission is to help make smart money smarter. 

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