MSCI Appoints Baer Pettit as President and Laurent Seyer as Chief Operating Officer
02 Novembro 2017 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of indexes and
portfolio construction and risk management tools and services for
global investors, announced today that, effective October 31, 2017,
its Board of Directors has appointed C.D. Baer Pettit to the
position of President. Mr. Pettit will oversee MSCI’s business
functions, including client coverage and marketing, product
management, research, technology and operations, reporting to Henry
A. Fernandez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Concurrent with this change, the Board has also appointed
Laurent Seyer to the position of Chief Operating Officer, in
addition to his current role as Chief Client Officer. The Chief
Operating Officer role will be re-positioned to be more aligned
with our client and go-to-market strategies already led by Mr.
Seyer, who will continue to manage MSCI’s sales, marketing, client
relationship management and client service teams globally. Mr.
Seyer will report to Mr. Pettit.
“As we continue to capitalize on the significant growth
opportunities in our industry, we are broadening and deepening our
senior management team to help us achieve the organizational scale
necessary to execute our long-term strategy. I am very pleased to
have leaders of the caliber of Baer and Laurent take on these
senior roles in our Company. I look forward to working closely with
them in the years ahead,” said Mr. Fernandez.
“Over the course of his career at MSCI, Baer has successfully
led key strategic and operational initiatives, including
cultivating many of our largest client relationships, developing
some of our most valuable products and services, and driving the
integration of our products and global operations,” concluded Mr.
Fernandez.
Mr. Pettit has served as the Company’s Chief Operating
Officer since October 2015. He previously served as Head of the
Product Group from February 2015 to September 2015, Head of Index
Products from 2011 to 2015, Head of Marketing from 2005 to 2012 and
Head of Client Coverage from 2001 to 2012. Prior to joining the
Company, Mr. Pettit worked for Bloomberg L.P. from 1992 to 1999.
Mr. Pettit holds a Master of Arts degree in history from Cambridge
University and a Master of Science degree from the School of
Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Mr. Seyer has served as Chief Client Officer since September
2016. He previously served as the Global Head of Client Coverage
from 2014 to 2016. Prior to joining MSCI, Mr. Seyer worked for
AXA Investment Managers in Paris, most recently as Global Head of
the Client Group. Prior to that, he spent 24 years at Societe
Generale in a number of leadership positions, including as CEO
of Lyxor Asset Management. Mr. Seyer graduated from Institut
d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, where he studied law and
economics.
About MSCI
For more than 45 years, MSCI's research-based indexes and
analytics have helped the world’s leading investors build and
manage better portfolios. Clients rely on our offerings for deeper
insights into the drivers of performance and risk in their
portfolios, broad asset class coverage and innovative research.
Our line of products and services includes indexes, analytical
models, data, real estate benchmarks and ESG research.
MSCI serves 99 of the top 100 largest money managers, according
to the most recent P&I ranking.
For more information, visit us at www.msci.com. MSCI#IR
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