Mr. Thakkar has served as Chief Technology Officer since July 2018 at MSCI Inc. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s Technology and Data strategy. In 2021, Mr. Thakkar launched MSCI's vision of Investment Solutions as a service ( https://www.msci.com/documents/1296102/23331437/MSCI-Investor-Day.pdf ), followed by MSCI’s flagship Investments platform, MSCI One ( https://www.msci.com/insights-on-msci-one ). Mr. Thakkar led the creation of MSCI’s strategic partnerships with Microsoft for Cloud and Google on Data and AI.

Before joining MSCI, he served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading software engineering for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. During his 19-year tenure at Microsoft, he built large-scale products and served in various leadership positions in Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Bing, Windows, and MSN divisions.

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He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India.

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