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Moody’s Names Former Oppenheimer Funds IT Lead Mona Breed as CIO

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Moody’s has named industry veteran Mona Breed as chief information officer (CIO) with effect from October 15, 2018. Breed succeeds Tony Stoupas, who has led Moody’s IT organisation as CIO since 2010 and will remain with the company until the end of 2018.

As CIO, Breed will lead Moody’s global technology infrastructure and programmes, and report to president and CEO Raymond McDaniel. She joins the company from Oppenheimer Funds, where she led IT infrastructure and drove innovation and transformation around the firm’s cloud computing, unified communication and collaboration, data centre operations and workplace technologies. She has also held senior technology roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Apollo.

McDaniel comments: “With nearly 30 years of experience embedding innovation and technology programmes at leading financial and professional services firms, Mona’s insight and expertise will be invaluable as we enhance our technology capabilities and leverage our investments.”

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