News & media Cordiant appoints Meekal Hashmi as Chief Operating Officer

29 July 2022

Cordiant Capital, the specialist global infrastructure & real assets manager, announces the appointment of Meekal Hashmi as its first Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hashmi will have responsibility for a number of strategic initiatives to support the firm’s continued global expansion. These include information technology, management reporting processes, and investments in the regulatory, compliance and middle-office functions. He will join the firm’s Executive Committee and be based in Cordiant’s London office.

Mr. Hashmi brings over 25 years of legal and operational expertise to the role. He joins from S.P. Hinduja Banque Privée, a private banking and family office where he was responsible for legal, compliance, risk, human resources and corporate secretarial functions related to the running of the regulated bank. Prior to this, he held in-house counsel positions at the Affiliated Managers Group, Neuberger Berman, Old Mutual Global Investors and Barings. He began his career at Trowers & Hamlins and Clifford Chance. He holds a BA from the University of Edinburgh, an LLM in International Financial and Banking Law from the London School of Economics and was admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales in 1997.

Benn Mikula, Managing Partner and Co-CEO at Cordiant said: “We are delighted to welcome Meekal to Cordiant. He has a demonstrable record of success in supporting investment management firms through periods of asset growth and expansion: talents of particular relevance to Cordiant as we continue to increase the assets managed by our equity and credit platforms in Europe, North America and selected global markets. He will help us serve our capital providers through strong returns, maintaining our 100% track record of beating
investment mandates.”  

Meekal Hashmi added: “It is a real pleasure to be joining the Cordiant team at an exciting time in their growth trajectory. I look forward to bringing a complementary skill set to the management team to strengthen the company even further.”