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Nirup N. Krishnamurthy
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
The Northern Trust Co.
50 S. LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60675
SIZE OF FIRM: $653 billion in assets under management as of March 2006.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: UAL Corp. (United Airlines): vice president and chief information officer (2003-2005); vice president, information services division; managing director of applications development, finance division.
EDUCATION: Ph.D. and M.S. in industrial engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
WHAT WORK EXPERIENCE HAS HAD THE MOST LASTING IMPRESSION ON YOUR CAREER? In the early days at United, as part of the financial research group we came up with an algorithm to do flight planning. But just because it's an algorithm doesn't mean it's going to be accepted. That was a very humbling experience. It doesn't matter how good your systems - or your brains - are; it is how you are able to convince others to use what you've developed.
LAST GOOD BOOK READ: "The Da Vinci...