Cyrus Taraporevala is president and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation and a global leader with $2.7 trillion in assets under management. State Street Global Advisors provides disciplined investment solutions spanning both indexing and active strategies to many of the world's largest, most sophisticated investors. Taraporevala is also a member of State Street Corporation's Management Committee, the company's most senior strategy and policy-making team.
Prior to this role, Taraporevala was head of the Global Institutional Group at State Street Global Advisors, responsible for leading the global client-facing, product and marketing teams delivering State Street Global Advisors' capabilities to institutional investors around the world.
He has more than 27 years of experience in asset management. Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors in 2016, Cyrus led Fidelity Investments' Retail Managed Accounts and Life Insurance & Annuities businesses. Cyrus joined Fidelity from BNY Mellon Asset Management, where he was Head of North American Distribution. Previously, Taraporevala helped to oversee Legg Mason's institutional business, directed business strategy for Citigroup Global Investment Management, and was a partner in the Financial Institutions practice of McKinsey & Company, based in New York and Copenhagen, in the course of his 14 years at the management consulting firm.
Taraporevala received his bachelor's degree from Sydenham College, University of Bombay, and his MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He serves as a board member of The Trustees of Reservations, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit conservation organization.
