Pirum announces hire of Amit Kohli, to help ensure clients utilize the full potential of the Pirum product suite, as well as to expand Pirum’s presence in EMEA.

London, UK, 11 September, 2024 – Pirum, a trusted automation and connectivity partner for securities finance and collateral management participants, today announced Amit Kohli has joined the company, as EMEA Key Account Management Director.

Kohli is a senior securities finance expert with more than more than 21 years’ capital markets experience. Kohli joins Pirum from KPMG, where he helped build the firm’s Capital Markets consulting business, which served buy-side, sell-side, and FMI clients. Kohli’s career spans Securities Borrowing & Lending, Repo, Collateral optimization, and RegTech, and he has directed operations, sales, trading and product teams in firms, including Rule Financial (Part of the GFT Group), SunGard Capital Markets, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust International, and Nomura.

Jacob Koopmans, Chief Revenue Officer, said: “I am delighted to welcome Amit into Pirum’s Key Account Management team. His many professional achievements, including the progression and growth of the capital markets business at KPMG, underscore his exceptional drive and leadership skills, as well as his encyclopaedic expertise in securities finance technology, regulation and products. The way Amit consistently approaches opportunities and challenges through a client-centric lens will be hugely beneficial to Pirum’s clients across EMEA.”

Amit Kohli, Director KAM EMEA, said “I am thrilled to join Pirum and look forward to helping our clients achieve the greatest possible benefits from our industry-leading suite of automation and connectivity products. I have always been impressed by the consistency of Pirum’s reputation, both in terms of its cutting-edge product development and culture of collaboration and transparency. Esteemed private equity investment simply reiterates the credibility and direction of the Pirum brand. I am excited to embark on this new chapter in my career and look forward to working with Pirum’s current and future EMEA clients.”

Amit’s hire follows that of Andy Bodley earlier this year and Sarah Hamid in December 2023, as the company keeps investing in KAM capacity and know-how.

About Pirum

Pirum was founded in 2000 with the objective of automating the securities finance and collateral management industries. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platform has since become the industry gold-standard globally for automation and connectivity solutions. Today, the Pirum platform is used and trusted by over 150 leading financial institutions around the world, covering both buy- and sell-side activities. Pirum delivers automation, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and reduced cost for its network of clients, who use Pirum solutions to process their trades in global financial markets. By connecting market participants around the world, the Pirum dynamo sits at the heart of a complex multi-party financial markets eco-system, all the while increasing transparency, streamlining operations and fostering collaboration. www.pirum.com

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