Kristian West
Managing Director, Head of Investment Platform
JPMorgan Asset Management

Kristian West, Managing Director, is Head of Investment Platform. He is responsible for identifying synergies across JPMorgan Asset Management’s investment platforms and optimizing. This includes leveraging the strengths of our investment, technology, data, derivatives and data science teams to build cohesive investment and client solutions. Kristian serves on the Asset Management Operating Committee, Applied Commercial Intelligence Council and Firmwide Risk Committee. 

Previously, Kristian was Global Head of Equity Trading and Equity Data Science, a role in which he focused on the evolution and management of the trading platform and building out data science capabilities across the Equity business.   

Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Kristian was head of Equity Execution Services at Barclays Capital, building global electronic and voice execution services for the hedge fund community. Prior to that, he worked at Goldman Sachs and was responsible for trading within their Electronic Transaction Services (ETS) department. He was also a US Sales Trader at Spear Leeds & Kellogg. 

Kristian serves on the board of Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBoE) Europe. 

Kristian holds a BSc (Hons) in Management & Design in Engineering from London City University and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.