MSCI Hires Jigar Thakkar as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering
24 Maio 2018 - 9:45AM
Business Wire
MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of research-based
indexes and analytics, today announced the appointment of Jigar
Thakkar as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering. Mr.
Thakkar will report to Baer Pettit, President of MSCI, and will be
a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He will be based in New
York and is expected to start in late July 2018.
“Jigar’s extensive experience as a contemporary technology
leader will be incredibly valuable in optimizing our technology
strategy and enhancing our culture of technical excellence,” said
Mr. Pettit. “Jigar joins MSCI at an exciting time for our firm as
we continue to build on our heritage of innovation by developing
world-class products and solutions to benefit the world’s most
sophisticated investors.”
Mr. Thakkar joins MSCI from Microsoft where he most recently
served as Corporate Vice President leading software engineering for
Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. During his 19-year tenure
at Microsoft, Jigar built large-scale products and served in
various leadership positions within the Office 365, Dynamics CRM,
Bing, Windows and MSN divisions. He holds an M.S. in electrical
engineering from the University of Southern California and a B.S.
in electronics engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University
of Baroda in India.
About MSCI
For more than 40 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.
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