development teams and the Aladdin product group. Aladdin supports every

single part of the asset management process, as a collection of systems and

software that are all put together that support portfolio managers, traders,

analysts, operations folks to perform the front-to-back

actions of an asset manager. When I came for the interview the thing that

convinced me to join was the people that I met. I thought I could learn something

from everybody that I spoke to, which is what really made me think yeah I'm ready

for the change. You can see that that it's our own

open space, it's very collaborative now. There's fewer places for closed meeting

rooms and lot more open spaces. We do a lot of kind of social activities down

here. We've got an Xbox, we've got a Wii, we've got board games. People are

free to just come and play and take a take a break whenever they want. One of

the big things that just happened actually is the BlackRock Hackathon. The

hackathon is our innovation competition, where people have to solve any problem

that they want across the business and that can range from a new way to book

rooms, to a new algorithm for portfolio managers you know that the problems have

no limit. What people get from this is they get to work on new ideas with new

people. There's a good sense of community because, the day job stops during the

competition just so everyone can get involved and they get exposure to really

senior judges across the company as well. I'm proud to work at BlackRock because I

really feel like the company's trying to make a difference and that we are making

a difference both in the culture inside the firm with technology and also what we

give to our clients.