Clearwater Analytics announced the winners of its Client Excellence Awards at its annual user conference Connect 2026. This year’s conference brings together practitioners to explore how a strong data foundation, paired with AI, is shaping what comes next in investment management. The awards spotlight the industry leaders putting that vision into practice.
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“The clients we’re celebrating today built on a strong data foundation to move faster, think bigger, and reimagine what their capabilities could be,” said Subi Sethi, Chief Operating Officer at Clearwater. “Now, they’re taking the next step—innovating with AI in partnership with Clearwater and exploring how agentic workflows can transform the way they operate. They show what’s possible when innovation and discipline come together on a foundation of trusted data, and we’re proud to be building the future of the industry alongside them.”
The Clearwater Connect 2026 Client Excellence Awards recognize excellence across seven categories. The winners of this year’s Excellence Awards are:
POWER USER
Recognizes individuals who have gone beyond standard use of Clearwater’s platform to automate processes, build custom workflows, and apply AI in new ways to improve efficiency across their organization.
- Quinn Conway, Vice President – Investment Operations, Aquarian Holdings
- Kevin Ligtenberg, Director Investment Operations, Securian Asset Management
GROWTH ENABLER
Honors an organization that has successfully scaled its business while maintaining operational control, accuracy, and compliance.
- Martello Re
OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE
Celebrates a professional who consistently delivers exceptional operational performance, strengthens processes, and helps their organization navigate complexity with confidence.
- Craig Stevens, Lead Director Investment Accounting, Aspida
DESIGN PARTNER
Recognizes a client who has played a meaningful role in shaping Clearwater’s products through collaboration, feedback, testing, and innovation.
- F&G
TRAILBLAZER
Honors an organization that has chosen Clearwater to expand its investment model to accommodate new asset classes or new investment types, and make their processes more efficient and complete.
- Transamerica
INVESTMENT EXCELLENCE
Celebrates an organization that demonstrates outstanding investment discipline, transparency, and innovation in managing complex portfolios.
- Charles Fish Investments
PARTNERED FOR SUCCESS
Acknowledges a partner who helped a client modernize, speed up transformation, or improve outcomes across the investment lifecycle.
- Bloomberg
Learn more about this year’s award winners and discover how Clearwater can help transform your investment operations at www.cwan.com.
About Clearwater Analytics
Clearwater Analytics is the natively agentic investment management platform built on a single, continuously reconciled investment record. Portfolio management, trading, accounting, risk, compliance, and private markets workflows run on a single source of truth, creating a connected foundation for automation, AI-driven insights, and agentic workflows across the investment process. Clearwater supports more than $10 trillion in assets globally for insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments. Learn more at www.cwan.com.
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