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Armughan Rafat is executive vice president and chief technology officer of the ASI Family of Companies. He oversees all technology initiatives and strategy, including the application of emerging technologies to advance the development and delivery of products and platforms serving all ASI® businesses.

He also serves as the chair of company's Technology Council, which involves promoting best practices across the company to drive scale in our technology infrastructure, promote innovation through technology and use information intelligently to continue ASI's tradition of designing, developing and offering the best products in the industry.

Rafat is an innovative and technology savvy executive with nearly 20 years of demonstrated success in running technology organizations for mission critical, billion dollar and small start-up businesses. Throughout his distinguished career, he has developed products and services for enterprise-wide, real-time, high-performance systems that deliver content to highly demanding users of every size and sophistication globally.

He has built a reputation of turning around problem brands and building teams that can deliver results in high pressure situations for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.

In 2013, he was selected by the ranking committee of ExecRank as one of the top chief technology officers in the nation selected out of the top 15,000 private company chief technology officers reviewed during a two-year evaluation.

He was also recently published in several reputed publications like CIO magazine, HBR and others. He also holds two patents awarded by the U.S. patent office in the fields of low latency financial data and machine learning technologies, along with several technology certifications.

Previously, he was vice president of technology for the markets division at Thomson Reuters. During his tenure at Thomson Reuters, Rafat held a number of senior leadership positions, including vice president of technology for the news division, global head of product strategy for news collections and editorial technology and VP of product development for investment banking. Under his leadership, Thomson Reuters become ranked number one in the world in real-time, low latency news delivery.

Prior to Thomson Reuters, Rafat spent five years at Liberty Travel, a family-owned company where he served as senior director of enterprise architecture and led an enterprise-wide initiative to design and deliver the largest travel industry projects.

Rafat holds a bachelor's degree in computer technology, a master's degree in software engineering and an executive master's in technology management.