RIMES opens new office in Paris
25 January 2010
RIMES Technologies, the benchmark data management provider and recent winner of the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Data Provider to the Buy-Side for the third consecutive year, announced the opening of its new Paris office, further increasing its presence in Europe.
Frédéric Mancuso, a co-founder of RIMES, will lead the new office which is located on Avenue de l’Opéra in the financial district of Paris. Renaud Larzillière joins him as Senior Program Manager to head the research and development team. Renaud was Senior Project Manager at SAP/Business Objects, responsible for Business Objects Enterprise major release projects. Renaud’s goal will be to develop and enhance RIMES’ innovative suite of portfolio management, performance measurement and attribution tools, as well as the various programming interfaces that allow quantitative analysts to access RIMES-hosted data from their desktop.
Emma Jayne Wood will be developing sales in the region. Emma Jayne brings a wealth of buy-side sales and business development experience to RIMES. Prior to joining RIMES, Emma Jayne was UK Operations Manager at BI-SAM Technologies, the Paris-domiciled reporting, performance & risk software solutions provider. During her 7-year tenure at BI-SAM, Emma Jayne held various business development and account management roles at senior level.
The RIMES office in Paris will provide local sales and support functions in a market identified as strategic for RIMES. “Technical support and customer service are vital components in any successful business and RIMES prides itself on providing best-in-class service to all of our clients regardless of location or time of day,” commented Christian Fauvelais, CEO, RIMES. “As our commercial reach in France grows, the opening of this new office in Paris supports our strong commitment to the French market and other French-speaking countries. We are very excited about this development.”
About RIMES
RIMES, the award-winning financial data integrator, delivers the world’s premier sources of data to fund managers, investment banks, custodians and corporates. In 1996 RIMES pioneered the delivery of highly-customised information and analytics via the internet; over 300 financial databases are now available. RIMES data is delivered either through powerful desktop analytical tools geared towards front-office operations, or through RIMES SmartFiles® delivering custom file services directly to the mid and back-office. Most recently RIMES launched Barra Performance on RIMES, which combines the best-in-class performance analytics from MSCI Barra and the data aggregation and quality control capabilities from RIMES. Operating on the principles of quality, speed, cost-effectiveness and reliability, RIMES continues to drive change through product and service innovation.
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