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10 BlackRock engineering leaders
These ten BlackRock engineering leaders currently hold CTO, managing director, head of engineering or senior engineering director roles at BlackRock. A reader can learn how engineering leaders lead technology organizations in asset management businesses.
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01—10Anudeep Kansal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Director · BlackRock
Senior Engineering Director at BlackRock since January 2026; the profile says Anudeep Kansal leads the global engineering and architecture for a platform in this role. Former Director (2023–2026), Vice President (2019–2023), Vice President (2018–2019) and Associate (2015–2017) at BlackRock.
Benjamin L. Severson
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director -- SRA CTO · BlackRock
Managing Director -- SRA CTO at BlackRock since May 2024, a role the profile lists at C-Level in General Management. Former Chief Technology Officer at SpiderRock Advisors (2020–2024), Head of Data and Analytics at Taurus Flood (2020) and Chief Technology Officer at Bengal Capital Trading (2009–2019).
Dan Romuald Mbanga
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, AI Platform Engineering · BlackRock
Managing Director, AI Platform Engineering at BlackRock since November 2024, a role the profile lists in the Engineering and Technical department. Former Director, Applied AI Engineering (2023–2024) and Group Product Manager, Core ML Engineering (2022–2023) at Google, and Head of Product Strategy, ML at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2020–2022).
Folu Okunseinde
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Team Director - Platform Engineering · BlackRock
Senior Engineering Team Director - Platform Engineering at BlackRock since January 2024; the profile ties the role to Unix compute platform and cloud engineering. Former Vice President Senior Engineer (2020–2023), Vice President Engineering Manager (2014–2016) and Vice President Software Engineer (2010–2014) at Goldman Sachs.
Gaurav Khare
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Analytics Data Engineering · BlackRock
Global Head of Analytics Data Engineering at BlackRock since May 2026. Former Head of Core Investment Compliance Engineering (2023–2026), Engineering Team Director (2021–2023), Engineering Manager (2018–2020) and Senior Software Engineer (2015–2017) at BlackRock.
Manoj Bansal
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Data Engineering, Data Governance, Entitlement, Observability and Analytics Platform · BlackRock
Global Head of Data Engineering, Data Governance, Entitlement, Observability and Analytics Platform at BlackRock since June 2022; the profile describes an enterprise data platform serving asset management businesses and institutional clients globally. Engineering Head of Data Operations Observability and Analytics Platform at BlackRock (2022–2026), and former Executive Director APAC Functional Head Data Management Platform, Data Science & Biz Intelligence at Nomura (2018–2022).
Robert Siegel
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer of Global Infrastructure Partners · BlackRock
Chief Technology Officer of Global Infrastructure Partners at BlackRock since October 2024; the profile says the role drives integration of GIP and BlackRock's technology platforms to support the combined infrastructure businesses. Former Chief Technology Officer at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) (2019–2024) and Co-Head of Private Markets Technology at KKR (2011–2019).
Santosh Yadav
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · BlackRock
Senior Director Of Engineering at BlackRock since 2009; the profile describes leading engineering teams that build mission-critical trading infrastructure for the Aladdin platform, focused on ETF primary markets serving institutional clients. Former Senior Consultant at UBS (2007–2008) and Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra (2003–2006).
Sunil Dalal
LinkedInExperience: Co-Head of Aladdin Product Engineering · BlackRock
Co-Head of Aladdin Product Engineering at BlackRock since November 2024; the profile describes responsibility for the platform's technology strategy, architecture and execution, and leading the engineering organization that powers investing across public and private markets. Former Head of Private Markets & Post Trade and Accounting Engineering (2020–2024) and COO, Aladdin Product Group (2014–2020) at BlackRock.
Sunil Mantena
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, Head of Securities Lending Engineering, Aladdin · BlackRock
Managing Director, Head of Securities Lending Engineering, Aladdin at BlackRock since January 2025; the profile says that as global head of engineering for BlackRock's Securities Lending, the role leads technology strategy and execution. Former Senior Engineering Director, Aladdin (2021–2024), Engineering Director (2017–2020) and Senior Engineering Manager (2013–2016) at BlackRock.
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- 01How do you split engineering ownership between a shared investment platform and the business teams that build on it?
- 02What does it take to integrate an acquired firm's technology stack into a large asset manager's platforms?
- 03How should an asset manager organize data and AI platform engineering so investment teams can use them safely?
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