User:Johnwilliamwise/John Wise (Entrepreneur)

John Wise B.Sc. (Double Hons), C. Eng is an entrepreneur responsible for creating 5 companies. He set up InvestCloud LLC in 2009 having established himself as a serial entrepreneur in securities industry technology.

History
He started his career in a research role for International Computers Limited, and quickly was selected by Citibank executives in the launch what is now Temenos. John teamed up with his brother to create his first independent software company ‘Synergo Technology’, which in five years became the UK leading Agency Brokerage solution with c.40% of the market volume, and in addition was the UK market leader for Institutional Net Settlement with c.90% of the market's customers. Synergo was sold and then John created TCA Syntec (the first EAI company in Europe), before starting Netik EAI as an international financial messaging and integration company. Netik EAI was the second largest move of SWIFT messaging in the world.

After leaving Netik in 2001, he returned in 2002 to restart Netik and sold all business lines, to focus on data warehouse portal solutions which were adopted by large banks (Custodians, Prime Brokers, Administrators) including Citibank, UBS, Credit Suisse, PNC, SEI, Fortis, Barclays, BNP, Scotia and Saudi Stock Exchange. The result was that trillions of dollars were held and communicated by Netik products. In 2005, John and his business partner, Colin Close, sold Netik to the Bank of New York. During Bank of New York, he became interested in operational outsourcing whilst working with EVP, Fred Ricciardi and the difficulties in deploying enterprise software.

Today
In 2009, John continued his research into the opportunities of Cloud computing cloud computing that would change deployment models and the creation of Cloudonomics. John’s belief was application teams could be small if the vast majority of code could be written in metadata and deployed through the cloud. He, along with business partners, decided to found InvestCloud LLC (www.InvestCloud.com) to address this opportunity, and within 3 months using their metadata engine launched a community testing / stock broking game in the Cloud (www.PlayMyMillions.com). In 2010, InvestCloud formed a partnership with The Conifer Group and created InvestCloud Solutions. InvestCloud Solutions is the first company to provide investment management solutions of this type in a private cloud.

John received a double honors degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer. (LinkedIn )