Sylvester Flood

Syl Flood is a senior editorial director at Morningstar. He oversees the company's editorial activities for its non-U.S. investor websites. He led the team that developed Morningstar's flows capabilities in the 2010s and continues to be involved in the database, and he recently joined Big Picture in Practice, a podcast for U.S. wealth professionals, as a co-host.

Before joining the editorial team in 2014, Flood was a product manager for Morningstar Direct and developed the Asset Flows module. Before that he helped establish Morningstar's operations in Europe, was the first product manager of Morningstar Direct, and was a product manager for Principia.

Before joining Morningstar in 1992, Flood led a team of freelancers in building a banking literature database that was owned by the American Bankers Association and distributed via LexisNexis.

Flood holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in business from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Follow Flood on Twitter @SylFlood.