- Kan Kotecha has been appointed as CTO to lead CAIS’s engineering team and focus on building a unified operating system for the alternative investment lifecycle.
- CAIS is an alternative investment platform offering access to private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and structured notes. It centralizes purchases and assists advisors with customized fund vehicles.
- The platform reached unicorn status in 2022 after raising $225 million and has facilitated $35 billion in transactions for over 34,000 independent advisors since its launch in 2009.
- Kotecha brings experience from previous roles at Gale Healthcare, Google, and Morgan Stanley, where he was the CTO of wealth management.
- CAIS CEO Matt Brown sees this hire as key to furthering the fintech’s vision of creating the most connected alternative investment operating system.
- The hire follows the appointment of Chris Zuczek as chief product officer in December 2022.
