DATSCHA - Key Persons
Alvise Munari is the Chief Client Officer at MSCI. He is responsible for overseeing MSCI's sales, client relationship management and client service teams globally. He is also a member of MSCI's Executive Committee as well as Chairman of the EMEA region. Prior to his current role, he served as the Head of Client Coverage for EMEA since 2015. He reports to our President and Chief Operating Officer, Baer Pettit.
Before joining MSCI, Alvise worked at Morgan Stanley on the sell-side, as Global Head of Equity Derivatives sales and Financial Engineering. He has also held senior positions at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
Alvise holds a DPhil. in Mathematics from Oxford University and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics from the London School of Economics. He was also a post-doctoral fellow in the mathematical laboratories at the École Polytechnique.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- As Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Andy Wiechmann, leads the company's global finance and investor relations functions, and partners with the heads of the Company's product lines and key functions to drive efficient financial management of the Company. He is a member of MSCI's Executive Committee.
Andy previously served as Chief Strategy Officer from May 2019 to October 2020, Head of Strategy and Corporate Development from July 2012 to March 2019, as Head of Investor Relations from December 2017 to March 2019 and Head of Financial Planning & Analysis from July 2015 to December 2017. In these roles, he has played an integral role in driving MSCI's most important strategic growth initiatives, overseeing M&A and partnership activities and managing the firm's capital structure, including helping to establish the leverage and dividend policies and overseeing share repurchase and financing activities.
While Andy formally joined MSCI in 2012, he has been a member of the MSCI family since 2006; beginning with his work on various potential acquisitions as well as MSCI's IPO while an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Over the years, he has been a key member of our finance organization, performing numerous responsibilities and providing significant contributions to our ongoing transformation.
Prior to joining MSCI in 2012, Mr. Wiechmann was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he executed M&A and capital markets transactions for financial technology and specialty finance companies.
Andy holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Physics and Economics from Hamilton College.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Axel Kilian Title
- Head of Client Coverage - EMEA
- Member of MSCI 's Executive Committee
Axel Kilian, as Head of Client Coverage in the EMEA region, is responsible for overseeing MSCI's sales in the region. He is also a member of MSCI's Executive Committee.
Axel joined MSCI in June 2020 with over 25 years of financial services industry experience. Over the past decade and a half, he has held various senior client management roles at leading financial institutions including JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Nomura and UBS across the equity, derivatives and wealth segments.
Prior to joining MSCI, Axel served as Head of Ultra High Net Worth Clients for UBS in Germany and Austria, based in Frankfurt. He also held the role of Global Head Equity Derivatives Distribution and European Head Equity Distribution at UBS in London.
Axel holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- President
- Head of European Client Coverage
Baer Pettit, as President and Chief Operating Officer of MSCI, oversees the company's day-to-day operations and leads MSCI's business functions, including client coverage, marketing, product management, research and product development, technology, data services and operations. He has been President since October 2017. Baer is the executive leader of the company's innovation initiative and serves as a member of MSCI's Executive Committee.
Baer joined MSCI in January 2000 as Head of European Client Coverage. From 2001 he was Global Head of Client Coverage and became Global Head of Marketing in 2006 through to 2012. From 2011 he was Global Head of Index, becoming Global Head of Products and Chief Operating Officer in 2015.
Prior to MSCI, Baer spent eight years at Bloomberg L.P., as Head of Bloomberg's European sales organization, where he ran their sales organization in France, Scandinavia and the U.K. Before this, Baer worked in Equity Derivatives at Barclays De Zoete Wedd and Morgan Stanley Asset Management.
Baer is both a U.S. and U.K. national and speaks French, German and some Dutch. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Trinity College, Cambridge University and a Master of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Job Titles:
- Head of Investor Relations
- Treasurer
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Investor