Krishan Rattan
CEO, Strand Hanson Asia
Krishan has spent the better part of two decades questioning the microstructure of financial intermediation from a variety of perspectives. His professional career spanned a variety of capital market roles across New York and London.
In his last job as the Global Head of the Alternative Capital Solutions group at Societe Generale in London, Krishan was tasked with delivering a new revenue stream to a globally recognized equity derivatives platform. This role involved the conception, hiring and delivery of a global team of senior professionals. The business delivered in excess of USD 200 million in revenues to the bank and continues to be a class leading cross asset financing platform to this day.
Prior to Societe Generale, Krishan also spent time in the emerging markets business at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, in a variety of trading and solutions roles.
During his banking career, Krishan was involved in a number of innovative, industry first transactions including the first long dated structured bond issuance by an African sovereign, design and implementation of the first market access index in South Africa and bespoke investment management solutions for large asset managers in Scandinavia.
Since 2012, Krishan has been an entrepreneur within financial services. During this phase, he has been involved with the conception, capital raising, and implementation of an ECB regulated challenger bank, River Bank which is headquartered in Luxembourg. He was also involved with the creation and growth of a non-bank liquidity provision firm focused on the global foreign exchange markets.
Krishan maintains close connections with his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley where he serves as a member of the steering committee for the business school with a particular focus on the design and updating of curriculum as related to financial economics. He is also actively involved in the creation of a UC Berkeley campus in India. Krishan is also an active member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) which he has been associated with since 2017 as a member of the Greater London chapter.
