Tom Fortin

Managing Partner,
Chief Information Officer

Tom is the Chief Information Officer of iCapital and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee.  He is responsible for the Administration, Investor Services, Enterprise Implementation and Technology departments. Tom is also co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Risk Management Committee.  Prior to joining iCapital, Tom was a Managing Director at BlackRock from 2001 to 2017. He was most recently the Global Head of Retail Technology, where he was responsible for the development of BlackRock’s retail sales enablement and digital distribution solutions. Tom was Global CIO and led the Aladdin development team from 2002 to 2012, and also led the global integrations of BlackRock’s acquisitions of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Barclays Global Investors. In addition, he was a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee, Enterprise Risk Management Committee, and Human Capital Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2001, Tom spent 10 years with Wall Street Systems leading the development of its integrated fixed income and FX trading system for global financial institutions. From 1988 to 1991, he traded FX and interest rate derivatives at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in New York. Through a joint engineering program, Tom earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a BS in engineering from Providence College, and an MBA degree in Finance from New York University.