JDG completes searches for the FRTIB’s CTO and Chief Investment Officer

JDG and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board are pleased to announce the selection of Sean McCaffrey as the new Chief Investment Officer and Vijay Desai as the new Chief Technology Officer.

Mr. McCaffrey has spent the past 3 years as the Deputy CIO for the agency and prior to that, worked at Deutsche Bank for 18 years.  He is an experienced top tier global asset management organization executive with a track record of success in establishing investment policy at an institutional level, setting asset allocation, generating portfolio investment performance, managing risk, and building and leading multiple investor teams across diverse segments globally.  He has an MBA from Yale and a BS in Economics from Carnegie Mellon.

Mr. Desai is a senior executive with 30 years of Federal and private sector experience.  He has multi-disciplinary skills, including complex IT project/program management; strategy development and implementation; business process improvement; and complex change management.  Prior to joining the FRTIB, he was the Head of IT Operations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau where he was responsible for management and oversight of 170 Federal staff plus 200 contractors within the Bureau’s IT office, all focused on maintaining and securing CFPB’s IT assets and infrastructure.  He has worked in other senior level positions with firms including North Highland Consulting, Capital One and Booz Allen Hamilton.  He has an MBA in Finance from Virginia Tech.