Neil Babbage is Head of Information Technology, EMEA & Asia. In this role, he has overall responsibility for all IT services supporting the EMEA and Asian businesses, while he is also responsible for all accounting, client reporting and performance technology globally.

Prior to joining Columbia Threadneedle, Neil was EMEA Head of Asset Servicing Technology for Bank of New York Mellon between 2011 and 2016 where he was responsible for the full range of technology supporting the asset servicing business. Before this, he spent nine years at JP Morgan in a range of leadership positions including Chief Business Technologist for the distribution arm of its European asset management business. With nearly 30 years experience in the financial services industry, Neil has held a number of other senior IT roles with leading financial services companies.
Neil holds an MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry from the Open University.