Blake Lynch

Title: Head of Sales
Firm: IMTC
Age: 37

Blake Lynch is on a mission to modernize fixed income portfolio management.

Before joining IMTC as one of its initial team members in 2019, he got his feet wet in municipal finance working with portfolio managers at municipal bond brokerages including Hennion & Walsh and Columbia Threadneedle. But he also experienced frustration having to work with antiquated and inefficient bond management processes.

From a technology platform perspective, fixed income feels like the Cinderella of equities: neglected and overlooked.

Typically, equities platforms were more advanced in data aggregation and workflow automation to optimize portfolio building workflows while legacy fixed income platforms resembled calculators.

In contrast to older systems, the IMTC fixed income platform supports dynamic credit analysis, embedded internal ratings scores, research analysis, and other functions.

Lynch and the IMTC team developed tools that reduce fixed income portfolio construction time from hours to seconds across thousands of portfolios and enable market participants to embed their best ideas into portfolio construction.

Lynch graduated from University of North Carolina where he studied international business and finance. As a high school and college student, he participated in internships all over the world including China, Vietnam, Brazil and New York.

Last year, Lynch's team drove 150% year-over-year growth in firms using IMTC and the firm now counts some of the world's largest asset managers as clients.

However, Lynch views his role at IMTC as more consultant than sales, striving to understand municipal bond challenges and develop innovative solutions that solve them. "My goal is to help municipal managers build highly scalable, efficient businesses that can future proof them for many years to come," Lynch said.