BlackRock veteran joins IHS Markit 14 September 2020New York Reporter: Maddie Saghir
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IHS Markit has hired BlackRock veteran Zion Hilelly as managing director, head of operations, client support and service and transformation for its financial services solutions business.
Based in New York, Hilelly will report to Andrew Eisen, senior vice president and head of financial services solutions.
In this newly created role, Hilelly will be responsible for leading global operations and the strategic transformation of the financial services solutions business.
He will lead an initiative to streamline data operations, WSO Services and software operations as well as cloud-hosted and managed services and global software, data and services support functions across financial services solutions.
Hilelly, who spent 20 years at BlackRock prior to IHS Markit, most recently worked as managing director where he was responsible for developing and leading multiple post-trade businesses and capabilities of the firm's Aladdin platform, used globally by BlackRock and Aladdin clients.
Commenting on his new role, Hilelly said: “I’m excited to join forces with IHS Markit to drive a business transformation that will help us capitalise on tremendous opportunities to deliver additional value.”
“Through the integration of our leading multi-asset software, data, managed services and full outsourcing solutions, IHS Markit will be uniquely positioned to provide holistic front-to-back solutions that can meet the growing needs of asset owners, asset managers and capital markets participants in private and public markets.”
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