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MSCI appoints Indian-American Kashi Kakarla as CTO
Kakarla previously held engineering leadership roles at SiRF Technology and Motorola India, specializing in GPS and enterprise technologies.
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Staff Reporter - Mon, 08, Jun 2026
- 04:49 EDT
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Kashi Kakarla / Kashi Kakarla via LinkedIn
New York based markets analytics company, MSCI, has appointed Indian-American engineer Kashi Kakarla as its new Chief Technology Officer.
In his new role, Kakarla will lead product technology and engineering across all product lines and client segments.
A key priority will be leveraging AI to transform the way clients access and engage with MSCI’s content and expand the reach of the firm’s solutions to a broader audience of investment professionals, noted MSCI in a statement.
Kakarla brings more than 17 years of experience from Intuit, where he led technology and engineering initiatives for small business platforms, AI-powered products, and enterprise solutions.
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He previously held engineering leadership roles at SiRF Technology and Motorola India, specializing in GPS and enterprise technologies.
He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Kakarla expressed excitement over his new appointment and said, “I’m thrilled to join MSCI at a pivotal moment in its growth story.”
He added, “Harnessing the power of AI will help us build and scale solutions that help clients reach their goals and sustain MSCI’s market leadership.”
Kakarla will also lead the establishment of a new MSCI office in Silicon Valley as an innovation and talent center driving the firm’s AI and technology transformation.
“I am delighted to welcome Kashi to MSCI,” said Henry Fernandez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
He continued, “His deep experience building and enhancing technology makes him the ideal leader to drive the next chapter of MSCI's transformation. In particular, his track record of using AI to modernize and scale complex products is exactly what we need as MSCI looks to increase the number of clients who consume our data, models, analytics and other content and make it easier for them to do so.”
MSCI is a leading global provider of investment decision-support tools, offering indexes, analytics, market data, risk management, and ESG solutions used by investors, asset managers, banks, and pension funds worldwide.
Headquartered in New York, MSCI’s indexes and research help investors analyze risk and return, with more than $18 trillion in assets benchmarked to its equity indexes.
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