ASK Private Wealth, a Blackstone-backed wealth management firm based in Mumbai, India, has appointed Prateek Pant as market head for the Middle East and Africa, as well as Prashant Tayal as partner and market head for Singapore.
Based in Dubai, Pant will collaborate with relationship managers (RMs) in India to offer both India-centric and global wealth management solutions to referred NRI (non-resident Indian) clients.
Pant has over 28 years of experience in banking and financial services in India and the Middle East. Before joining ASK Private Wealth, he served as chief business officer at WhiteOak Capital. Before that, he co-founded and led the products division at Sanctum Wealth Management.
Pant holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MMS degree with a specialization in finance from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.
Tayal, based in Singapore, will oversee fund management and wealth advisory for ultra-high-net-worth clients covering Southeast Asia.
Tayal, who joined ASK Capital in March this year, has over 23 years of experience in private banking and wealth management industry. Prior to this, he was a director at Union Bancaire Privee, a Swiss boutique private bank in Singapore, managing UHNW clients across Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
His extensive career includes roles at Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, J.P. Morgan in Singapore, and Citi Private Bank, Kotak Bank in India.
He holds an MBA in international business from the Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, and a bachelor of commerce from Delhi University.
