Northern Trust, an asset management firm based in the US, has appointed Alison Pain as the chief technology officer for EMEA.
In the new role, Pain will guide the planning, organisation, direction and control of the Enterprise Technology business across EMEA.
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She will operate out of London and report to both chief information officer Tom South and EMEA president Teresa Parker.
Pain formerly was the managing director at Deutsche Bank.
She also had a 12-year stint at Goldman Sachs. She was in charge of infrastructure service and application development functions in EMEA and globally at the firm.
Besides, Pain worked at Barclays Private Bank, Land Securities Properties as well as NatWest group.
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By GlobalDataReferring to Pain, Northern Trust chief information officer Tom South said: “Through her broad array of technology infrastructure experience gained working across global, complex organisations, we are well placed to continue to develop and refine the future of our organisation and deliver technology capabilities and solutions aligned with our clients’ needs and expectations and business strategies.”
At the end of March 2020, Northern Trust had assets under custody/administration and assets under management of $10.9trn and $1.1trn, respectively.
The firm’s service suite includes wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking. It caters to corporations, institutions, and wealthy families and individuals.
