Keshava Shastry

Keshava Shastry is Chief Capital Markets and Distribution Officer at Carne Group, leading capital markets and distribution, private markets, fund structuring, and digital assets.

He has over 20 years of leadership experience in global markets, banking, asset management and capital markets, spanning buy-side and sell-side institutions across public markets, private markets, and digital assets. His expertise includes investment management, ETFs/ETPs, product development and structuring, market structure, financing, distribution, and financial infrastructure.

Prior to joining Carne, Keshava held senior global leadership positions at First Abu Dhabi Bank, Deutsche Bank Group, Credit Suisse Group and BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors, having begun his career in trading at Citigroup. His experience spans equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, derivatives, ETFs, and private markets. He has also been involved in the development of institutional digital assets, stablecoins, tokenisation and market infrastructure, and has served as a strategic advisor to start-ups and other firms in this emerging ecosystem.

Keshava has held leadership roles in international industry associations and participated in regulatory market-structure initiatives. This has included engagement with regulators and policymakers such as the FCA, Bank of England, ECB, ESMA, SFC, SEC and IOSCO on market structure, funds, securities, derivatives, and digital assets.