Meet the Team

Brian Paik

Founder, CEO

Brian Paik is an accomplished technology and operations leader within the highly complex and evolving investment industry. For the last 25+ years, he has leveraged his deep industry knowledge and experience as a practitioner, technology director, and strategic partner to enable organizations to successfully navigate business growth, expansion, downsizing, and downturn cycles.

In each role, he has been recognized for quickly delivering significant value and efficiencies that enabled Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, Admiral Administration, Caledonian Fund Services, HSBC Alternative Fund Services, HSBC Alternative Fund Services, Core Technology Partners, CUSIP Service Bureau/Standard & Poor’s, and Goldman Sachs to achieve continued growth. He has built strong relationships with portfolio managers and traders that have enabled him to gain solid insight into their individual and business needs.

Mr. Paik founded Ievers to guide clients in developing innovative technology solutions, launching and growing alternative asset funds, developing strong support models, implementing and upgrade portfolio accounting and trade order management systems, and building market data feeds and integrating data feeds from banks, brokers, and custodians. (Client base ranges across the globe from Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Credit Funds and Global Fund Administrators)

He draws on decades of experience evaluating, selecting, implementing, upgrading, and integrating portfolio management and trade order management systems to enable firms to align technology investments with business goals. He has built deep relationships with software vendors, gained extensive knowledge of systems, and proven success in automating and enhancing workflows and processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve investment techniques.

During his 8-year career with Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, he stabilized mission-critical Advent Geneva system and drove the development of custom integration solutions to all major brokers that reduced processing time frame by 7 hours. He championed and managed several complex upgrades of the Advent Geneva system, implementation of the Wall Street Office system for new Private Bank Debt business with integration to Advent Geneva, and the selection of vendor and implementation of system for high-profile CLO strategy launch.

Earlier as Middle Office Manager for Admiral Administrator, he built the middle office line of business in the Cayman Islands for this global hedge fund administrator. He led the design and implementation of Advent Genera, build out of T+1 reporting services, and establishment of global operation for reporting, analytics, and trading for multiple hedge funds.

During his early career, Mr. Paik built and managed the Market Data and Valuations Group for Caledonian Fund Services, established new business in Grand Cayman for Caledonian Fund Services, and directed Market Data operations for HSBC Alternative Fund Services.

Mr. Paik holds an MS degree in Finance from Northeastern University, and BBA degree in Finance with a minor in Computer Information Systems from Hofstra University.

Tom McGrath

Head of Investor and Accounting Advisory Services

Tom McGrath is the Head of Accounting and Investor Services. Prior to joining Ievers he was Senior Director of Geneva Word Investor Product Development at SS&C Technologies where he joined in 2015. He held various leadership roles at Advent Software in product development, product management, professional services, and client services where he began in 1995. He was instrumental in expanding Advent Partner from a U.S. Partnership Accounting only product used by a handful of clients into the World Investor product used by many of the largest funds and administrators to accommodate investor accounting for onshore and offshore funds, private equity, investor servicing and complex fund structures. He worked in public accounting as a CPA, has a master’s degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University, and has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley.

Vijay Shah

Head of Front Office Advisory Services

Vijay Shah is the Head of Front Office Advisory Services. Prior to joining Ievers, Vijay was assisting a CTA fund’s operational structure and growth based in Lake Tahoe, NV. As a former fixed income derivatives trader, Vijay has held several senior cross-asset derivatives posts at Tier 1 buy and sell side firms, most recently at JPMorgan Asset Management in London where Vijay was single-handedly responsible for implementing a number of significant global derivatives implementations including CME Clearport for the energy desk in New York and a change in the margin model across Europe for all US Dollar Futures. He has always held a passion for the derivatives world as a front-to-back office SME and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree in Financial Services from London Guildhall University alongside several derivatives and market vendor certificates.