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Bringing clarity to investment decisions | MSCI | Icebreaker

Bringing clarity to investment decisions | MSCI

We offer data, analytics and technology designed to help you meet private asset, wealth management, sustainability, index and risk management goals.

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An inquisitive team player, developed strong skills and experience in the financial service sector. Thrives working in a highly critical thinking environment; as my biggest strength is taking ownership of any project or task I get involved in. Whilst also embracing the creative mindset I possess, honed from previously working in financial research focused roles.

Marianne Cairns

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Innovative and data-driven marketing director with global experience in the technology and financial services industries. Proven history of leading successful, integrated strategies across digital, social, events, partnerships and content to drive revenue growth and brand equity.

Juan Amaro Alaffa Benavides

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Professional Economist with experience in fx markets, capital markets, commodity markets, macroeconomic forecasts, DSGE models, political developments. Microeconomics knowledge and expertise include econometric regressions, panel data, difference in difference, multivariate analysis as well as regression trees, clustering methods and marketing research.

Rokas Mačiulaitis

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Rewards Director, North America

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Organize some of the most educational & interesting events in the Finance/Tech/Crypto space: The Financial Summit (Bali/Dubai/Zanzibar) Understanding Bitcoin (Malta) Unconfiscatable (Las Vegas/Miami) My Consulting Rate ranges between 0.02 & 0.1 Bitcoin/hr but I DO NOT A. Promote Projects on my YouTube/Social Media B. Invest in Projects/Companies C. Advise Projects/Companies

Gabriel Vargas Garza, CFA

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Mauricio Hernández Torres

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Kleber is a Director at Ripple’s Business Development team. He is a dynamic leader with extensive experience managing high profile business transformations, navigating and influencing complex organizations, and a proven track record of scaling new businesses, building capabilities, and developing partnerships. Trusted advisor to global clients - banks, tech companies and start-ups - on commercial strategy, digitization and technology modernization, and risk and regulatory management.

Martina Macpherson

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Martina Macpherson, FICRS, PhD (c), is a sustainable finance expert with a long track record in strategy, analysis, reporting, regulations, data and products, across markets and sectors, with a network of 32+ followers. Martina leads the financial markets chapter at VBA. She has held a range of product, policy and content roles, at SIX Group, ODDO BHF AM, Moody's, S&P Global, MSCI and Lloyds Banking Group. Earlier in her career, she worked in product marketing for F&C AM and Deutsche Bank. She is an independent board member at FoSDA (global data alliance), a visiting fellow at Henley Business School and lecturer at University of Zurich. In 2014, she founded a business consulting services firm, which she grew with talent and tech partners into www.xpertecosystem.com in 2025. She has co-created, led and participated in industry and policy working groups shaping finance, data and sustainability decisions convened by ICMA, FinDatEx, and the European Law Institute. Nowadays, she is an EFRAG VSME committee and ESMA consultative working group member, an advisory board member at the ESG Policy Liaison Group (Houses of Parliament) and at global analytics firm, SG Analytics. Martina contributes regularly to working groups defining best practices, standards and regulations, and innovation themes, e.g., by the European Data Management Council, the World Federation of Exchanges and the UN’s Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative and UN Global Compact. Martina co-edited RiskBooks’ ESG in Portfolio Analysis Handbook (2022), Routledge’s Handbook on Biodiversity (2022) and contributed to the AI Book (2020), an agri-finance publication by Burleigh Dodds Publishing (2024) and to the first Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting by Elgar Publishing (2024). Martina holds a M.A. from University of Frankfurt, an MBA certificate from the LSBF, a certificate from the Investment Association and in NED Board Governance by ICSA in the UK. She is a fellow at the ICRMP and the ICRS, and an alumnus of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). Martina has been recognized as a Top Voice in ‘Sustainability and Climate Risk’ by The Leading Women To Watchᵀᴹ (Forbes, 2025), as a ‘Sustainability Ambassador’ by the Global Thinkers Forum (2024) and as one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Finance’ (World Finance Forum, 2022). She ranks as a top leader within the Modern Slavery Influencer Index (2018). She is a Jury Member at Portfolio Institutionell’s “Best Impact Investor" and at the Chronos Sustainability LSE NextGen “Policy” Awards.

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