Awards & Recognition

Our Company | Our People | Our Clients

Committed to delivering exceptional business results to our clients through technological innovation, Confluence is highly recognized as a fast-growing company and innovative leader in our industry and community.

Over the years Confluence, our team and our customers have been recognized for the success they have achieved by revolutionizing fund administration back-office operations through automation.

Our Company

2011 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2011 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2010 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2010 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2009 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2009 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2008 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2007 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2007 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2006 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2003 Inner City 100, awarded by Inc. magazine and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to recognize America's fastest growing urban businesses.
2003 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2002 Inner City 100, awarded by Inc. magazine and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to recognize America's fastest growing urban businesses.
2002 Tech 50 Information Technology Category Winner, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2001 Inner City 100, awarded by Inc. magazine and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to recognize America's fastest growing urban businesses.
2001 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2000 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
2000 Inc. 500, named one of the fastest-growing private companies in the country by Inc. magazine
1999 Pittsburgh's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Pittsburgh Business Times
1998 Tech 50 Award Finalist, compelling companies with a knack for excellence, Pittsburgh Technology Council

Our People

2011 Mark Evans. Confluence Chairman and CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2011 Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Award in the Technology category.
2007 Dennis Farkos, Confluence CFO, named CFO of the Year by Pittsburgh Business Times

Our Clients

2011 Russell Investments received the 2011 Money Management Executive Innovations in Back-Office Gold award for their automated system that manages enterprise data around the world.
2008 Principal Financial Group® was selected as first-place winner in the Efficiencies/Streamlining category of the Money Management Executive 2008 Fund Operations Awards for consolidating data and automating multiple fund administration processes with the Unity™ platform.
2008 Russell Investments was nominated as a finalist for the 2007 Mutual Fund Industry Award for Best Post-Trade Technology Implementation, sponsored by Fund Action and Operations Management. Russell Investments was recognized for their global approach to performance reporting.
2007 Principal Financial Group® was nominated as a finalist for the 2006 Mutual Fund Industry Award for Best Post-Trade Technology Implementation, sponsored by Fund Action and Operations Management. Principal Funds was recognized for the business results achieved by automating financial reporting with direct publishing.
2006 Eric Falkeis, vice president of fund administration at U.S. Bancorp, won Second place for Leadership in the SourceMedia's 2006 Fund Operations Awards, sponsored by Money Market Executive. He participated in a research project that enabled Confluence to examine the financial reporting workflow processes for multiple mutual fund clients and, as a result, develop an automated solution to streamline financial reporting.