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The 2014 Tech 50: Chris Corrado

No. 32 Chris Corrado, Chief Information Officer, MSCI

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Chris Corrado
Chief Information Officer
MSCI
(PNR)

Until last October venerable benchmark indexing company MSCI had never had a chief information officer. Chris Corrado, capping a 33-year career that included stints at several top Wall Street technology shops, is making amends in a hurry. Reporting to chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez, who called the appointment “the ultimate recognition that MSCI is a technology company,” Corrado says he has been aggressive in forging a management framework for technology and data services — functions that account for 45 percent of MSCI’s 2,600 employees — and paving the way for “significant infrastructure investments.” Having a CIO in place “just scratches the surface of the transformation,” adds the 54-year-old. New York–based MSCI today is far more than the index firm formerly known as Morgan Stanley Capital International. A series of acquisitions since 2004, including Barra, RiskMetrics, IPD Group and InvestorForce, have turned $1 billion-in-revenue MSCI into a broad-based provider of performance and risk management tools. “We are creating an integrated platform for risk and portfolio management,” the CIO explains. Platform services will support innovation by developers and ultimately allow clients to perform their own analytics. “We are in a unique position to be at the center of the investment process,” says Corrado, who held senior technology positions at Morgan Stanley from 1985 to 1997 and was most recently head of platform services at UBS.

The 2014 Tech 50

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1
3
4
5
Thomas Secunda
Bloomberg
Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange
Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.
Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments
Lance Uggla
Markit
6
7
8
9
10
Robert Goldstein
BlackRock
David Craig
Thomson Reuters
Phupinder Gill
CME Group
Anna Ewing
NASDAQ
OMX Group
R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group
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12
13
14
15
Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures
Dan Mathisson
Credit Suisse
Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings
Michael Spencer
ICAP
Michael Bodson
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corp.
16
17
18
19
20
Joe Ratterman
BATS Global Markets
Dominique Cerutti
Euronext
Ron Levi
GFI Group
Gaurav Suri
D.E. Shaw Group
Charles Li
Hong Kong
Exchanges and
Clearing
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22
23
24
25
Lou Eccleston
S&P Capital IQ
Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets
Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings
Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings
Antoine
Shagoury

London Stock
Exchange Group
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27
28
29
30
Christopher
Perretta

State Street Corp.
Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.
Peter Carr
Morgan Stanley
Hauke Stars
Deutsche Börse
Robert Alexander
Capital One
Financial Corp.
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34
35
David Gershon
SuperDerivatives
Chris Corrado
MSCI
Joseph Squeri
Citadel
Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services
John Bates
Software AG
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37
38
39
40
Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group
David Gledhill
DBS Bank
Simon Garland
Kx Systems
Cristóbal Conde
FinTech Innovation Lab
Jeff Parker
EidoSearch
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42
43
44
45
Kim Fournais &
Lars Seier Christensen

Saxo Bank
Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates
Tyler Kim
MaplesFS
Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.
Jim Minnick
eVestment
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47
48
49
50
Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix
Sebastián Ceria
Axioma
Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute
Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners
Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma

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