2016 Tech 50: Robert Goldstein

自从成为首席运营官三4.6美元llion-in-assets money manager BlackRock in July 2014,罗伯特戈德斯坦该技术部门曾致力于他以前的责任，包括阿拉丁投资组合和风险管理系统业务，并在去年收入的64600万美元。Goldstein目前专注于将Blackrock的历史上制度技术置于零售领域。主流投资者的路线通过Futureadvisor，基于旧金山的数字或“Robo”的财富经理，去年9月收购Blackrock，以及与LPL金融和RBC财富管理的分销伙伴关系。“We’ve taken what we believe is the leading platform for digital advice and we’re institutionalizing it,” says Goldstein, 42, who joined BlackRock as an analyst in 1994, moved to BlackRock Solutions at its start in 1999 and has headed the unit since 2009. “The regulatory environment is helping support an increasing need for risk transparency across all these end-customer portfolios,” Goldstein adds. “We’re delivering best-in-class portfolio construction, risk analytics and content.” He stresses that the New York–based firm is continuing to invest in Aladdin as its core system “while also leveraging new technology to open Aladdin and make its data more accessible in this world of everybody being a data scientist.” Aladdin’s revenue jumped to $528 million in 2015 from $474 million the year before, Goldstein says, with more than half of the total coming from global clients, up from 20 percent in 2010. BlackRock has introduced a version of Aladdin for custodians, fund accountants and other service providers; JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s securities services business is a new client. Goldstein muses that computing advances could significantly change traditional exception-based work flows, which are designed to identify problems needing human intervention. “We never figured out as an industry why the computer can’t do it,” he says. “If technology can identify the problem, why can’t it fix the problem?”