8 Mar 2010
Calastone Limited has announced the appointment of Sebastien Chaker as Head of its Luxembourg office. Mr Chaker will be responsible for working with the Luxembourg-based mutual fund industry to help them reap the benefits of mutual fund transaction automation and straight through processing.
Mr Chaker joins Calastone from Brown Brothers Harriman Limited where he was Global Head of Fund Solutions Business Development based in London since January 2007. Prior to this, Mr Chaker worked for Euroclear SA in Brussels where he was a Director in the Investment Funds Product Management division, with primary responsibility for defining and implementing Euroclear's FundSettle global funds strategy. Mr Chaker’s career spans fifteen years of experience in the investment fund market, where he has also held sales and relationship management and marketing positions in Citibank's global consumer business with primary responsibility for launching the Citichoice mutual fund platform in France.
Sebastien Chaker graduated in 1995 from the “Universite Libre de Bruxelles” in the Faculty of Economical, social & political sciences.
Mr Chaker joins Calastone from Brown Brothers Harriman Limited where he was Global Head of Fund Solutions Business Development based in London since January 2007. Prior to this, Mr Chaker worked for Euroclear SA in Brussels where he was a Director in the Investment Funds Product Management division, with primary responsibility for defining and implementing Euroclear's FundSettle global funds strategy. Mr Chaker’s career spans fifteen years of experience in the investment fund market, where he has also held sales and relationship management and marketing positions in Citibank's global consumer business with primary responsibility for launching the Citichoice mutual fund platform in France.
Sebastien Chaker graduated in 1995 from the “Universite Libre de Bruxelles” in the Faculty of Economical, social & political sciences.
Commenting on the announcement, Kevin Lee, Co-founder and Managing Director of Calastone said, “Luxembourg is an important area of focus in our efforts to help bring greater efficiencies for executing cross-border mutual fund transactions. We have already signed up a number of important Luxembourg participants and quickly recognised the need to invest in a Luxembourg-based operation to better serve the local community. Sebastien brings a wealth of experience and excellent Luxembourg community relationships and we are excited to have him on board.“
Sebastien Chaker added, “I have been impressed with the pace at which Calastone has been connecting participants. I was particularly attracted by their vision to enable every firm, no matter their size, location, existing technology or messaging protocol to benefit from automation and STP. Calastone’s low cost approach to providing an international transaction network is clearly building traction and there is much more to follow which will benefit the global mutual fund industry. I am delighted to be involved in opening Calastone’s first international operation and look forward to driving greater transaction flows both in and out of Luxembourg."
