Chris Peretta

Many students choose a major because the subject comes easily to them. Not Chris Perretta ’79—he chose electrical engineering at the Whiting School expressly because it was a challenge. “It was always hard for me,” he remembers. “I got the sense that if it’s hard, it must be worth doing.”

Tackling new challenges has been one of his guiding missions ever since. In April, Perretta took on his latest one: He was named chief information and operations officer for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Americas Holdings Corp. and its U.S. banking subsidiary, MUFG Bank. MUFG is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, and its New York-based MUFG Americas Holdings reports assets of roughly $116.2 billion.

Excerpted from JHU Engineering magazine