Han Yik Named Senior Advisor at New York State Teachers’ Pension

Yik will advise NYSTRS CIO Thomas Lee on regulatory, public policy and ESG matters.



The New York State Teachers’ Retirement System has named Han Yik as senior advisor to the executive director and CIO – stewardship. In his new role, which started June 13, Yik will advise Executive Director and CIO Thomas Lee on regulatory, public policy, global initiatives and corporate governance issues.

Yik will also build and lead NYSTRS’ initiatives on investor stewardship and sustainability, including environmental, social and governance issues. He joins the pension fund at a time when it has received public pressure to divest from companies that manufacture firearms and ammunition.

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“I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to be in such a position of impact at one of the largest and most respected public pension funds in the United States,” Yik said in a LinkedIn post.

Yik joins NYSTRS from Strategic Focus Investments, where he was a managing partner for more than a year and managed investments across multiple asset classes, such as venture capital, publicly traded options and digital assets. Before that, he was head of institutional investors at the World Economic Forum for more than five years.

Prior to the World Economic Forum, Yik was senior institutional portfolio strategist and head of institutional thought leadership atBank of America Merrill Lynch for seven years, and before that was a senior consultant at Mercer for two years. He earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from Yale University.

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Wilshire Hires New Chief Technology Officer

Lawrence Miller’s hire comes just three months after Wilshire Advisors was hit by a cyber attack.


Wilshire has named Lawrence Miller as its new chief technology officer to oversee all development and engineering efforts throughout the company, according to a press release.‍ He will also become a member of Wilshire’s executive committee.

 

The move comes just a few months after Wilshire Advisors was hit by a ransomware attack. Lawrence succeeds Scott Condron, who joined the company last summer and has been promoted to chief operating officer.

 

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“We’re thrilled to bring Lawrence onto the Wilshire team,” Mark Makepeace, CEO of Wilshire, said in a statement. “With a deep technology, architectural, and cyber security background, Lawrence has a long track record scaling up fast-growing engineering organizations. He will be partnering closely with our commercial and operational teams to develop and execute on our business and technology strategies.”

 

Before joining Wilshire, Lawrence was most recently chief technology officer for more than two years at Signant Health, a provider of clinical trials technology. And prior to Signant, he was chief security officer at secure communications startup Symphony.com, where he led the company’s security program, oversaw platform operations and directed regulatory and government affairs. He also worked as a managing director at BlackRock for 11 years, overseeing the development services team for its asset manager platform Aladdin, and before that was a vice president at JPMorgan Chase for over six years.

 

Miller has also served on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s TAC Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and on the board of the FinTech Open Source Foundation. He earned a B.A. in physics from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in computer science from The George Washington University.

 

“I’m excited to join Wilshire and continue to develop and build out its world-class business systems into a platform and strategic set of technology products, which will enable Wilshire to grow and scale its business efficiently and securely,” Miller said in a statement.

 

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