John Hyde the founder and president of CapitalRock began his career at a startup
company called Sterling Wentworth Corporation in 1986 and the company grew into
the largest supplier of financial planning and needs analysis software in the financial
services industry. In 1999 John became President of Sterling Wentworth the same
year the company was sold to SunGard Data Systems. Within 9 months of the acquisition
by SunGard John was promoted to Group CEO and was given responsibility for all the
front office applications for retail brokerage, banking and insurance. During John’s
six year tenure at SunGard his group called SunGard Online Investments Systems (“SOIS”)
acquired six software companies and grew to over 500 employees. These companies
were integrated into suite of products built or acquired capability in the area
of wealth management, CRM, compliance, online trading, real-time market data distribution
and market data management
As part of the group’s acquisition strategy an integrated broker workstation was
developed for the brokerage market. Each of software solutions that were acquired
were re-platformed and integrated using a common interface and data layer and other
common components called the Common Services Architecture (“CSA”). Given the state-of-the-art
nature of the CSA and the early on successes using it in the SOIS group, it has
now been adopted by all the operating units in the financial systems division.
In addition to acquiring and integrating components into the group several new products
were successfully launched under John’s leadership of SOIS. Two products of particular
note were Synapse Surveillance/Suitability and WealthStation. Synapse Surveillance/Suitability
is a compliance solution and that segment of the market has expanded tremendously
with Synapse Surveillance and Suitability being the market share leader. Just prior
to leaving SunGard John engineered the acquisition of Synapse’s leading competitor
(Protegent) in the space to solidify market leading position in the space.. WealthStation
was developed using the CSA architecture to provide and integrated solution for
advisors to high net worth individuals.
John has a bachelors of science degree in finance and MBA from the University of
Utah.
Douglas E. Massey Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Doug Massey is currently Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Capital Rock. Mr.
Massey has spent over 18 years designing and delivering software solutions to improve
the sales and delivery of insurance products. Mr. Massey helped start InsurQuote,
now a Choicepoint company, and was instrumental in the creation and delivery of
the first comparative rating and product management tools to P&C carriers and agencies.
These systems are critical infrastructure in the P&C space today. In 2000 Doug turned
his attention the Life & Annuity Market and helped Blue Frog to create and sell
a suite of software applications to streamline the sales of life and annuity products
and automate the required communications surrounding the process. Mr. Massey has
been actively involved with NAVA’s technology committee for the last 7 years and
with ACORD for 12 years, and is a proponent of standards and streamlined automation.
Mr. Massey frequently speaks at industry events educating firms on the current and
future state of Insurance Automation.
Doug holds a BS in Business Administration from Utah Valley University.
Brian Hendricks Vice President Knowledge Engineering
Brian Hendricks is vice president of Knowledge Engineering at CapitalRock. Brian
began his career designing, building and selling rule based expert systems in Financial
Markets in 1998 at Sterling Wentworth that was acquired by SunGard. Brian has filled
roles as Knowledge Engineer, Product Manager and Sales Executive. While at SunGard,
Brian was instrumental in the creation of new marketable solutions by applying SunGard’s
rule based technology (Synapse) to new problems. These solutions include, SunGard’s
Protegent Surveillance, Synapse Account Opening, and Margin Advisor. These solutions
are now used by over 85 top tier brokerage and insurance firms such as Ameriprise,
Raymond James, Allstate Financial and AIG.
Brian has an MBA from Brigham Young University and a BA of Liberal Arts and Sciences
and Journalism from Utah State University.
