Keshava Shastry joins Carne Group as Chief Capital Markets & Distribution Officer
Keshava Shastry joins Carne Group as Chief Capital Markets & Distribution Officer. He will join the Group Executive Committee and strengthen the senior leadership team.
With more than two decades of international executive experience building and scaling businesses and leading multi-disciplinary teams across global markets, ETFs, asset management, and financial infrastructure, Shastry brings a senior practitioner perspective that complements the deep regulatory, product and operational expertise already within Carne. He also brings longstanding institutional relationships across public and private markets.
Shastry joins from First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), where he was Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sales, serving on the Global Markets Executive Committee. Throughout his career, he has helped build and scale businesses, including across private-markets financing, investment solutions, and digital assets. Shastry spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank and DWS, where he was Global Head of Capital Markets, managing trading eco-system partnerships and advising clients on asset allocation implementation as well as market structure and regulatory coordination.
He has also been Head of Capital Markets at Credit Suisse, and ran the iShares markets team at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors. Shastry has also served as Chair of both the Investment Association’s ETF committee and the European Fund and Asset Management Association’s ETF task force.
Keshava Shastry, Chief Capital Markets & Distribution Officer, said:
'As public and private markets become increasingly connected, and digital infrastructure enters mainstream finance, clients are asking for help in navigating a more complex set of choices around products, markets, and distribution.
Carne already has a distinctive foundation of independence, regulatory credibility, trusted client relationships and an embedded position across the fund lifecycle. I’m excited to work with colleagues across the firm, and our industry partners, to build on those strengths - bringing deeper market and practitioner insight to help clients make better decisions, access new opportunities, and launch products with greater speed and confidence, and grow.'
John Parkhouse, President of Carne Group, said:
'As we continue to execute Carne’s long-term growth strategy, we’re focused on building the capabilities our clients will need as markets, products and distribution models evolve in the months and years ahead.
Keshava is a highly execution-focused individual, with a rare combination of experience, that will help us bring market insight and execution closer together, so we can identify issues earlier, reduce friction and help clients bring the right solutions to market faster and more effectively.
He will also strengthen our fund product development, structuring and distribution intelligence capabilities, and represents a significant addition to our leadership, which is great news for Carne, and great news for our clients, so I’m delighted to be welcoming Keshava to the team.'
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