Morgan Stanley Announces 2026 Cohort of Distinguished Engineers

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today named 19 new Distinguished Engineers (DEs), the firm's highest technical distinction. Distinguished Engineers are recognized for setting strategic and architectural direction, taking on the firm's toughest engineering challenges and mentoring the next generation of Morgan Stanley technologists.

The 2026 Distinguished Engineer class consists of engineers who are raising the bar for how Morgan Stanley develops and deploys technology, transforming the way the firm operates and serves clients. The new class brings the total number of Distinguished Engineers at Morgan Stanley to 92, less than 1% of the firm's global engineering workforce.

"Our Distinguished Engineers are among the best technologists in financial services. They are central to how we design, build and innovate at Morgan Stanley," said Trevor Brosnan, Global Head of Technology Strategy, Architecture and Modernization, a Distinguished Engineer who oversees the program. "Distinguished Engineers build and maintain the platforms our clients depend on every day, they're behind a growing body of patented work and they set the technical standard for the firm."

Including the 2026 cohort, the firm's Distinguished Engineers are named as inventors on 20% of all granted/allowed patents at Morgan Stanley. The firm also recognizes Distinguished Engineers for their contributions to groundbreaking technology projects, many of which have earned wide industry recognition. Examples include:

· AI @ Morgan Stanley: A proprietary AI platform and one of the first large-scale GenAI implementations on Wall Street, automating routine tasks and accelerating content creation by securely accessing firm knowledge. It is now growing into an agentic suite of tools for advisors, service professionals and clients. The Wealth Management Technology AI & Data team is led by Distinguished Engineer Christine Tu.

· DevGen.AI: Morgan Stanley's in-house generative AI-powered software modernization platform, initially developed in an internal hackathon in 2024, with more than 950 use cases onboarded as of 2026. It has saved the firm's software developers more than 1.4 million hours of manual coding, translation and mapping. The team is led by Distinguished Engineer Kumar Vadaparty.

· Open Source Contributions: Morgan Stanley was a founding member of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) in 2018. Distinguished Engineer Dov Katz has served on the board since its inception and is a former board Chair. Distinguished Engineers hold active leadership roles in FINOS working groups and regularly contribute to projects, most recently CALM, an open-source specification for defining software architectures in a standardized, machine-readable format. Morgan Stanley was also among the first firms to achieve FDC3 3.0 certification.

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