George Harrington

George has over 20 years of experience in financial markets, financial technology, and global exchanges, most recently, he was in an advisory role as the Head of Global Business Development for Eris Exchange LLC. While at Eris he was responsible for overall business strategy in rates, credit and FX markets.

Prior to Eris, George was at Bloomberg, LP for over nine years where he held a variety of positions including Head of Derivative Trading, Head of Fixed Income Trading, Head of Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Trading and most recently Head of Global Markets Mr. Harrington is responsible for global derivatives and fixed-income indexes of MSCI. In derivatives his team supports MSCI linked listed futures and options, and all exchange partnerships. In addition, he is in charge of building the MSCI product ecosystem and leads OTC Derivatives globally to drive maximum revenue for the firm and to create compelling value propositions for clients. In Fixed-Income, he leads both the MSCI proprietary Fixed-Income index business as well as the partnership strategies with Bloomberg, Markit, ICE and others.

He had many accomplishments at Bloomberg including growing execution platforms to leadership positions and leading Bloomberg STP to be only the second SEC licensee for post-trade matching.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Harrington worked at Tradeweb as Head of Credit Derivative Trading. He also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers/Standard & Poor’s, Thomson Financial, and he began his career as a senior mutual fund accountant for JP Morgan Chase.