Meet Cynthia
Cynthia is a seasoned, independent COO who has a deep track record executing infrastructural strategies for large financial service companies. An expert on the ecosystem of Wall Street, her knowledge allows Cynthia to facilitate growth, increase margins and streamline operations.
Cynthia's Expertise
Cynthia Meyn is an independent Special Advisor to Reverence Capital Partners, a private equity firm that acquires financial services and financial technology companies. In this capacity, she has led the budget, infrastructure, and transformational aspects of MA execution of stand-ups, carve-outs and integrations of large insurance carriers, investment management firms, and broker dealers. She previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Venerable Holdings (2018-2020), as the executive vice president and head of operations globally at PIMCO (2008-2017), and as the managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (2006-2008). Prior to those roles, Cynthia held executive roles in technology at Alliance Bernstein, Cantor Fitzgerald (CTO) and Mizuho Capital (CTO, CRO). She holds a BA from Smith College, an MBA from Duke University, and has 37 years of experience.
Cynthia is also an independent Board of Directors member, currently serving on industry advisory and philanthropic boards. She serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College, the Board of Directors of the Duke Management Company (DUMAC), and the public Board of Directors of Zero Hash. She also volunteers as an appointed industry member of the Board of Governors of CUSIP. In early 2017, she completed a five-year term serving on the Board of Directors of the DTCC, and a six-year term serving on the Board of Managers of Omgeo.
Cynthia has published two articles in The Actuary covering the practical aspects of Libor Cessation and personal reflections on courage in leadership. In 2014, Cynthia was awarded Operations Businessperson of the Year by FT News. She has also co-authored two case studies for Harvard Business School related to the algorithm behind the movie-recommendation systems of Netflix and the related IP concerns.
Omgeo
New York, NY
Board of Directors Member, 2011-2013
Omgeo, now known as DTCC ITP, was established in 2001 as a financial services global joint venture between DTCC and Thomson Reuters. Omgeo specialized in post-trade operations. DTCC acquired 100% of Omgeo in October of 2013. Omgeo provided settlement solutions to the global post-trade processing ecosystem including Alert, CTM and Oasys, and TradeSuite.
Cynthia completed a two-year term, which concluded with the acquisition of Omgeo by DTCC. She served on the Compensation Committee and Products Committee.
Source: Omgeo - MarketsWiki, A Commonwealth of Market Knowledge
DTCC
New York, NY
Board of Directors Member, 2012-2017
DTCC, through its subsidiaries, advances industry-leading solutions that help secure and shape the future growth and development of the global financial marketplace. DTCC stands at the center of global trading activity, processing trillions of dollars of securities transactions on a daily basis.
Cynthia completed a five-year term, having served on the Human Capital and Compensation Committee from 2015-2017; Business Products and Technology Committee from 2015-2017; Technology and Operations Committee form 2012-2015 (Chair 2014); and Business Products Committee from 2012-2015.
Zero Hash
Chicago, IL
Public Board of Directors Member, June 2018 – Present
Zero Hash, formerly known as SeedCX, allows any crypto currency exchange platform to integrate digital assets into Zero Hash’s settlement utility natively, thus providing their own customer experience quickly and easily by way of API endpoints. Zero Hash is fully compliant with applicable laws and regulations. Clients of Zero Hash include Stripe, Moonpay, DraftKings, and Interactive Brokers.
Cynthia serves as a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Source: ZeroHash.com
Duke University Management Co.
Durham, NC
Board of Directors Member, Jan. 2018 – Present
DUMAC’s primary responsibility is to manage Duke University’s endowment assets, as well as those of Duke’s defined benefit pension plan, health system, and working capital. DUMAC partners with over 130 investment management advisory firms to help meet its investment goals.
Cynthia graduated from Duke University Fuqua School of Business in 2010. She has served on the Audit, Compliance and Risk Management Committee since 2018, which she has chaired since December of 2023.
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Board of Trustees Member, July 2019 – Present
Smith College, founded in 1871, is a top liberal arts college providing one of the highest qualities of education for women.
The Board of Trustees of Smith College is custodian of the endowment and properties of the college. The board administers the invested fund, sets the annual budget and determines policies for operation and control of the college, among other responsibilities.
Cynthia graduated from Smith College in 1986, is co-chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, and serves on the Operations & Resources Committee.
Sources: Smith College History and Traditions, Smith College Board of Trustees
Axcelus Financial Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia, PA
Board of Directors Member, Nov. 2023 – Present
Axcelus is a leading provider of insurance solutions for high net worth individuals. Axcelus has a 30-year track record of offering customized solutions including life and annuity solutions. The company employs over 100 people at offices in Philadelphia and New York. Axcelus, formerly known as Lombard International, was acquired by BroadRiver Asset Management in November of 2023.
Cynthia serves as Chair of the Finance and Independent Audit Committee, and as a member of the Governance and Bylaws Committee and of the People and Leadership Committee.
Sources: Lombard International - Who We Are, BroadRiver Completes Acquisition of Lombard International US & Bermuda Businesses
Governance Board Service
Alternative Reference Rate Committee (AARC)
New York, NY
Co-Chair of Operations Implementation Sub-Committee Board of Visitors Member, June 2019 – June 2021
AARC is a group convened by the Federal Reserve Board of New York with a goal of ensuring a successful transition away from U.S. dollar LIBOR to SOFR, its recommended alternative. The AARC is comprised of private-market participants. Cynthia co-chaired the sub-committee that focused on industry-wide cessation of the use of LIBOR with a managed change towards SOFR, focusing on gathering together sell-side, buy-side and vendors to work through operational aspects of the world-wide conversion across such matters as buy-side readiness for asset managers and owners, new issuance market data dissemination, offering memorandum language, conversion protocols for fallback language on older vintage debt, corporate action market data vendor readiness, and derivative valuation and coupon processing.
CUSIP
New York, NY
Board of Trustees Member, Feb. 2014 – Present
CUSIP Global Services is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association (ABA) by FactSet Research Systems, Inc. The Board of Trustees serves in an advisory role, representing the voices of leading financial institutions.
Derived from the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, CUSIPs are 9-character identifiers that capture an issue’s important differentiating characteristics for issuers and their financial instruments in the U.S. and Canada. CUSIP Global Services also manages the ISIN and LEI. CUSIP delivers tens of millions of identifiers for securities around the world.
The Board of Trustees is comprised of representatives from leading financial institutions to fulfill an important advisory capacity.
Sources: About CGS - CUSIP Global Services, Leadership Team - CUSIP Global Services
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC
Board of Visitors Member, July 2016 – Present
Fuqua is a premier business school offering ten degree programs and eleven non-degree programs designed to help working professionals in a globally engaged manner achieve success in areas including healthcare, financial services, technology, and consulting. The Board of Visitors provides a sounding board to the Dean of Fuqua and engagement with the school more generally. The goal of the Board of Visitors is to provide support on key initiatives and to continue support philanthropic efforts to grow the endowment for the benefit of programs, faculty and scholarship.
Cynthia graduated from Fuqua with an MBA in 2010 through the Cross-Continent executive program.
Sources: About the Fuqua School of Business, Leadership | Duke's Fuqua School of Business
Reverence Capital Partners
New York, NY
Special Advisor, Mar. 2019 – Present
Reverence Capital Partners is a leading private investment firm focused on private equity and structured credit within the financial services sector.
Cynthia fulfills an advisory capacity encompassing due diligence, cost projections, harvesting of synergies, organizational design and carve out services for the portfolio company transactions within the funds managed by Reverence Capital.
Source: Reverence Capital Partners
