Vijay Kasarabada

Vijay Kasarabada is the Chief Information Officer of Nuveen and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. He is responsible for advancing the firm’s technology and operations strategy to accelerate Nuveen’s growth as a world-class global asset manager. Vijay also drives the enterprise priorities for Nuveen as part of the wider client services and next-gen technology strategy, which focuses on the transformation and integration of the technology ecosystem in partnership with the firm's enterprise technology shared services.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Vijay led wide scale operational transformations with an integrated technology and operations strategy at firms such as BlackRock and Lazard Asset Management. Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer at Lazard Asset Management, leading the implementation of State Street’s front-to-back investment servicing platform. As Managing Director at BlackRock for over a decade, Vijay was the technology head of several functions within the front, middle and back-office areas of the firm. Vijay also held senior leadership technology roles at Merrill Lynch and has consulted for several Fortune 50 companies, including Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.

Vijay graduated with a Bachelor’s of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Rohilkhand University, India and an M.B.A. in Finance and Business Strategy from Rutgers Business School. He continues to serve in leadership roles across various technology industry forums.