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| Sean Pasternak |
Sean Pasternak, who headed global PR at DXC Technology, has joined SimCorp as head of external communications.
New York-based DXC, which has 130K employees in 70 countries, helps companies modernize their IT networks. Pasternak had reputation management responsibilites and was a member of the team that forged a partnership with Manchester United.
He joined DXC from Manulife, where he handled global communications for Canada’s largest insurer and parent of Boston’s John Hancock Life Insurance Co.
Previously, Pasternak did a 14-year stint as a financial services reporter at Bloomberg News.
SimCorp provides software to companies in the asset management, insurance, and pension fund sectors.
It is a unit of Deutsche Börse Group, the German financial services/info tech giant with assets of more than $260B.
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