Before joining Rothschild, Shakil Riaz was a managing director and member of the investment committee at Arden Asset Management, from July 2009 to March 2015, where he was responsible for creating and managing customized portfolios for several state, corporate and union pension plans, an insurance company and institutional investors. Riaz also managed and led the investment process for Arden PropPartners funds.
Prior to Arden, Riaz was chief investment officer of JPMorgan PropPartners Management Corp formerly known as the Capital Markets Investment Program which since 1994 managed a portion of the bank’s proprietary capital in a diversified portfolio of global hedge funds. From 1983 to 1991, he was general manager of the predecessor Chemical Bank’s offices in Cairo, Bahrain and Singapore. He joined Chemical Bank in 1976 in the international operations group, transferring to the Middle east territory of the international division in 1980.
Riaz graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1973 with a BS in aerospace and mechanical engineering. He also holds a graduate diploma from the University of Stockholm and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he was the recipient of a faculty fellowship.