Armughan Rafat is EVP of ASI and chief technology officer of the ASI Family of Companies. He oversees all technology initiatives and strategy, including the application of emerging technologies to advance the development and delivery of products and platforms serving all ASI businesses. He also serves as the chair of the company's Technology Council, which promotes best practices across the company to drive scale in ASI's technology infrastructure, promotes innovation through technology and uses information intelligently to continue ASI's tradition of designing, developing and offering the best products in the industry.

ExecRank, the definitive ranking service of leading executives who have achieved the highest level of professional achievement and peer recognition, named Rafat one of the top technology officers in the nation, ranking him No. 100 on its 2012 list of 225. There are over 15,000 private company CTOs in the U.S., and only the very best are awarded the distinction.

Rafat is a technology executive with experience building enterprise-wide, real-time, high-performance products that deliver multimedia content to highly demanding users of every size and sophistication. Throughout his distinguished career, he has developed products and services to manage content from thousands of sources and contributors, with subscription and usage access granted to tens of thousands of users globally.

Previously he was VP of technology for the markets division at Thomson Reuters. During his tenure at Thomson Reuters, Rafat held a number of senior leadership positions including VP of technology for the news division; global head of product strategy for news collections and editorial technology; and VP of product development for investment banking. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Mr. Rafat spent five years at Liberty Travel, a family-owned company where he served as senior director of enterprise architecture and led an enterprise-wide initiative to design and deliver one of the largest travel industry projects.

Rafat holds a bachelor's degree in computer technology, a master's degree in software engineering and an executive master's in technology management. He also holds several technology certifications and filed patents in fields of low latency financial data and machine learning technologies.