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Max Christoff

Executive Director in Information Technology, Morgan Stanley

Max Christoff is an Executive Director in Information Technology at Morgan Stanley. Based in San Francisco, he has global responsibility for collaborative and communications technologies at the firm, and chairs the department's architecture committee.

Max's career with Morgan Stanley began in 1996 to engineer the firm's email and directory systems. Since then, his responsibilities have included intranet engineering, wireless, electronic fax, and real-time collaboration software. Max was one of the technology managers involved in creating and launching the 2004 Google IPO auction system, and most recently has focused on the challenges and opportunities of knowledge worker productivity, information overload, social computing, and Office 2.0.

Max received his undergraduate degree in Classics from Columbia University and graduate degree in Classics from Princeton University. When not puzzling out dactylic hexameters in ancient Greek, Max is an avid pianist and diver.