Robert Garrison is DTCC's Chief Information Officer (CIO), with enterprise-wide responsibility for the ongoing development and testing of all the technology that supports DTCC’s post-trade infrastructure, which includes multiple data centers; communications networks; processing and messaging systems (which receive and respond to more than 2.4 billion messages each day); the IT applications underlying DTCC’s broad range of products and services; business continuity, and information security.

This infrastructure protects the certainty and reliability of DTCC’s post-trade processing capacity which, in just one of DTCC’s business functions, has handled close to 315 million transactions on a peak day and is capable of processing 850 million transactions a day.

Garrison assumed the role of CIO from Jacob Feuchtwanger who retired in July, 2011 after a distinguished 31-year career with DTCC. Garrison reports to Michael C. Bodson, DTCC’s chief operating officer.

Prior to joining DTCC in October 2010 as a managing director and chief development officer of its Information Technology division, Garrison spent 25 years at Morgan Stanley working in various senior technology-leadership positions. Among many notable accomplishments, he directed the Global Wealth Management technology group, significantly improving the technology capabilities of the business. He also led the integration of the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture and the integration of Barclay’s Global Custody business into Morgan Stanley Trust Company.

Garrison earned a bachelor’s degree in government and history from Bowdoin College.