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10 Morgan Stanley IT leaders
These ten Morgan Stanley IT leaders, including CIOs of Morgan Stanley business areas and regions, hold or have held chief information officer, managing director and executive director roles in technology and infrastructure. A reader can learn how CIOs and infrastructure leaders lead technology organizations in banking businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amanda Creak
LinkedInExperience: EMEA CIO and Head of EMEA Technology · Morgan Stanley
EMEA CIO and Head of EMEA Technology at Morgan Stanley since March 2023, based in London. Former EMEA CISO at Morgan Stanley (2021–2023), former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs (2018–2021) and former Director, EMEIA Information Security Centre of Excellence at EY (2012–2018).
Barbara Donnelly
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director - Enterprise Infrastructure · Morgan Stanley
Former Managing Director - Enterprise Infrastructure (2007–2010) and Executive Director - Enterprise Infrastructure (1996–2006) at Morgan Stanley. Barbara Donnelly has been Managing Director - Investment Management Technology at Morgan Stanley since 2019 and was Managing Director - Technology Risk (2016–2019) and Managing Director - Wealth Management Technology (2010–2016).
Bobby Gilja
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer Corporate & Funding Technology · Morgan Stanley
Former Chief Information Officer Corporate & Funding Technology (2015–2021) and former Chief Information Officer Cloud & Architecture (2021–2022) at Morgan Stanley. Bobby Gilja was also Managing Director I Head of Prime Brokerage, Funding and Finance Technology at Morgan Stanley (2003–2015).
Hina Shamsi
LinkedInExperience: CIO Wealth Management · Morgan Stanley
CIO Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley since March 2026. Former Managing Director, CTO US Banks and Head of Banking, Advisory and Investment Solutions Technology at Morgan Stanley (2021–2026) and former EVP, Chief Information Officer at Texas Capital (2019–2021).
Katherine Wetmur
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, CIO - Cyber, Data, Risk and Resilience · Morgan Stanley
Managing Director, CIO - Cyber, Data, Risk and Resilience at Morgan Stanley since September 2020, based in New York City. Former International CIO at Morgan Stanley (2019–2020). The profile also lists a Managing Director role at Morgan Stanley from 2002 with no end date and a board seat at SustainableIT.org since 2022.
Merav Pepere
LinkedInExperience: CIO, Managing Director · Morgan Stanley
Former CIO, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, a role the profile dates from 1993 to 2023; the profile describes Merav Pepere as a former Morgan Stanley International and Data CIO. Current board roles include Member Board of Directors at IDBNY since 2024 and Board Member at CORE Foundation since 2024.
Michael Poser
LinkedInExperience: CIO of Enterprise Technology and Risk · Morgan Stanley
Former CIO of Enterprise Technology and Risk at Morgan Stanley (2011–2022) and Managing Director, Co-CTO at Morgan Stanley since February 2022. The profile describes global head responsibility for technology infrastructure, shared application services, technology architecture and cloud transformation. Former CIO, Group Technology Infrastructure Services at UBS (2005–2011).
Paul Hudspith
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Technology Infrastructure · Morgan Stanley
Executive Director, Technology Infrastructure at Morgan Stanley since March 2020; the profile says the role includes responsibility for engineering teams covering infrastructure and platform-as-a-service. Former Executive Director, Platform-as-a-Service Engineering (2016–2020) and Executive Director, Web Infrastructure (2010–2016) at Morgan Stanley.
Peter King
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, Enterprise Computing · Morgan Stanley
Managing Director, Enterprise Computing at Morgan Stanley since January 2022, based in London; the profile describes the role as head of Enterprise Computing Core Infra Service. Former Executive Director, Enterprise Computing at Morgan Stanley from August 2000 to January 2022.
Rich Viana
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director of Enterprise Systems Management · Morgan Stanley
Managing Director of Enterprise Systems Management at Morgan Stanley since November 2016; the profile says Rich Viana designed and supports a monitoring solution for the entire firm's applications and systems. Former Executive Director at Morgan Stanley (2007–2016) and former Vice President & Architect at Citi (1999–2007).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a large bank split technology ownership between business-line CIOs and a shared infrastructure organization?
- 02What does it take to run firmwide compute, storage and monitoring platforms for thousands of applications?
- 03How do regulators' expectations shape the way a bank's regional CIO organizes technology risk and resilience?
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