Jai Rajpal
Current Position
Founder and CEO, Crescent Asset Management Asia
Founder & Trustee, Plaksha University
Education
IIM Calcutta (MBA)
IIT Delhi
Bio
Jai is the founder and CEO of Crescent Asset Asia Pte. Ltd. He had previously been Global Head of FX at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited since August 2012. He served as Head of Fixed Income, Asia ex-Japan at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited until August 2012. He served as Head of Fixed Income for Asia ex-Japan at Nomura Holdings Inc. from March 2010 to August 2012. He served as Joint Head of Fixed Income, Asia-Pacific at Nomura Holdings Inc. from November 2008 to March 2010. He served as Global Head of Asian Currency Trading at Deutsche Bank AG since February 2007 and was responsible for the FX Business in Japan.
He served as Head of Fixed Income Singapore & Southeast Asia of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. He spent 13 years working in FX at Deutsche Bank. Jai joined Lehman Brothers in 2007 after spending 14 years at Deutsche Bank, where he was the global head of emerging markets foreign exchange trading.