Cormac Kinney


Cormac Kinney is an entrepreneur and software designer.

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.

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.

NeoVision

In 1993, with Carnegie Mellon Senior Research Scientist, Marc H. Graham, Kinney founded NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc. to develop and market software for creating heat maps. The software was licensed to Bloomberg L.P., Dow Jones Telerate, Thomson, and Reuters for over 300,000 desktops.
In 2002, he designed a trade cost analysis system for Fidelity Investments. 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.

Quantitative Hedge Fund

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

Flont

In 2016, Kinney launched Flont, a platform which provides jewelry as a service.

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