- Allison Gorman Nachtigal was previously the head of Morgan Stanley’s cloud program.
- She left to start a new role at Microsoft as a VP building cloud solutions for industry clients.
- Managing directors Yunchi Nam and Trevor Brosnan are overseeing Gorman’s previous remit.
Microsoft just gained one of Wall Street’s top cloud executives.
Allison Gorman Nachtigal, the former head of Morgan Stanley’s cloud program, has departed the bank for the tech giant, Insider has learned.
Her role has been absorbed by two Morgan Stanley managing directors: Yunchi Nam, who leads cloud engineering, and Trevor Brosnan, head of technology architecture and modernization, according to a person familiar.
Gorman Nachtigal left the bank in May, the source said. At Microsoft, as vice president of industry scale and customer engagement, Gorman Nachtigal is responsible for building tech solutions for specific industries, such as retail, healthcare, and sustainability. Microsoft’s cloud computing program Azure is Morgan Stanley’s primary cloud partner.
While Morgan Stanley kept her “happy and challenged,” she realized she wanted to work directly with the company after partnering with them on cloud capabilities, Gorman Nachtigal said in a LinkedIn post announcing her new role on Monday.
“Crafting solutions that modern computer technology can bring to empower a business across different global industries sounded intriguing and quickly became the objective for the next step in my career,” she said.
Gorman Nachtigal had a 33-year career at Morgan Stanley. She worked her way through the bank’s technology analyst program and later served in tech leadership positions across AI, enterprise computing, cybersecurity, and cloud, according to her LinkedIn. Most recently, she was the head of the cloud program, guiding teams across the firm in a migration to the public cloud.
As Morgan Stanley’s new head of cloud engineering, Nam handles the plumbing behind Morgan Stanley’s cloud efforts. She maintains her remit as head of enterprise compute, overseeing the bank’s storage, data, and application services needs, spanning web platforms and databases to analytics and business intelligence. Nam has worked at Morgan Stanley for 24 years.
Meanwhile, Brosnan, head of technology architecture and modernization, absorbed Morgan Stanley’s cloud architecture and business enablement responsibilities. He works closely with the bank’s business stakeholders on cloud software. Brosnan and Nam both report to Michael Poser, chief information officer of enterprise technology and services
Microsoft and Gorman Nachtigal did not respond to requests to comment.
Morgan Stanley inked a strategic partnership with Azure in June 2021. Azure handles the bulk of the bank’s cloud-computing volumes and Morgan Stanley codevelops new tools and applications for the cloud provider. The cloud has been a key part of the bank’s modernization efforts, from accelerating how the bank assesses new tech vendors to transforming how it shares and analyzes data with institutional clients.
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