MSCI Inc. announced the appointment of Jigar Thakkar as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Engineering. Mr. Thakkar will report to Baer Pettit, President of MSCI, and will be a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He will be based in New York and is expected to start in late July 2018. Mr. Thakkar joins MSCI from Microsoft where he most recently served as Corporate Vice President leading software engineering for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business.