Nov 16, 2022 / 08:10PM GMT
Ashish Sabadra - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division - Analyst
Hi, I'm Ashish Sabadra, and I cover info-services companies here at RBC Capital Markets. I'm excited to have Jigar here with us. Jigar is the CTO of MSCI.
Jigar, maybe we'll start off with your background. So (inaudible) Microsoft and now 4 years at MSCI. Can you just help us, provide your perspective, what are the differences between a software company and an investment tech company?
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Jigar Thakkar - MSCI Inc. - CTO & Head of EngineeringGreat. Thanks for having me here, Ashish. Great to speak with all of you. Yes, I spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft. My last gig at Microsoft was launching Microsoft Teams, which has close to maybe 400 million users now. And since then, I have spent over 4 years at MSCI, and you all know what MSCI does. We're in the world of quantitative investments. And we have the intersection of data technology and project investments.
And some of the big differences I see are, in the technology world, you start with the