
Welcome to Future of Finance, where Fortune asks prominent people at major companies about their jobs, how their firm fits into the crypto ecosystem, and what it all means for how we use money.
Blackrock was born in 1988 and so was its proprietary tech platform, Aladdin, which is short for Asset, Liability, and Debt and Derivative Investment Network. Sudhir Nair joined the firm in 2000 as an analyst, and he’s now a senior managing director and member of Blackrock’s Global Executive Committee. He’s also the global head of Aladdin, which is used by more than 1,000 clients and organizations worldwide to manage trillions of dollars in assets.