BUSINESS
Founder and CEO Of Kristal.ai, Asheesh Chanda
Asheesh Chanda is the CEO and Founder of Kristal.AI, a global digital private wealth platform that provides accredited investors with full asset management solutions. He is in charge of all firm operations, including strategy and product development, customer acquisition, and growth. Asheesh also manages the Kristal Founders Fund, a high-performing hedge fund strategy that manages money for the fund’s founders and major customers.
Asheesh is a post-graduate from IIM-Bangalore Batch of 2002 and a computer science engineer from IIT-Delhi Batch of 2000. Since 2002, Asheesh Chanda has worked in the financial services industry. He began his career working for companies such as Citibank India and JP Morgan Chase before launching Kris Capital in 2014. He created Kristal.AI in 2016 to enter into the digital asset management industry, attracting both accredited and retail investors, after shutting it down in 2016. Asheesh spends a significant portion of his time researching and trading financial markets.
Kristal.AI was founded in 2016 with the goal of providing tailored wealth management to the mainstream affluent and emerging high networth investor segments. He oversaw investment portfolios at KrisCapital, a Singapore-based global macro hedge fund that he co-founded to invest across different asset classes, prior to creating Kristal. To optimize sharpe ratios and minimize drawdowns, he led asset allocation decisions and developed both systematic and algorithmic trading strategies.
It is Digital-First Private Wealth platform that connects investors with bespoke complex investment solutions and curated portfolios from the world’s best Portfolio Managers. Kristal’s patented algorithm also assists you in selecting the finest investment methods to accomplish your financial goals. Kristal.AI is presently licensed in three countries: Singapore, Hong Kong, and India. While Asheesh devotes a significant portion of his time to learning about and trading financial markets, he is also a python programmer and a quasi-techie at heart, having achieved several accolades during his studies, including an All India Rank 51 in IIT Entrance 1996, as well as being an Indian National Math Olympiad and Indian Physics Olympiad scholar.