[1][2][3][4][5] Charles Hallac was born in Tel Aviv and moved to the Philippines as a toddler.
[2] He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and computer science from Brandeis University in 1986.
[7] He joined BlackRock as its first employee at its inception in 1988 to build the technological and operational foundation of the firm.
[5][8] He purchased the first computer for the firm and created the Aladdin system and was a co-founder of BlackRock Solutions which he ran until 2009.
[7] Charles Hallac lived with his wife and their three children in Scarsdale, New York.