Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company redefining data management processes for asset servicers, alternative investors, wealth managers, and capital allocators, has hired Vishal Saxena.
In his new role as chief technology officer, Saxena will support Canoe’s growing client base and strengthen the company’s product and technology strategy.
Saxena brings over 20 years of academic and industry experience within financial services to the role. He has extensive experience in team building, process optimisation, software development, project management and alternative and private investments domain knowledge
Prior to joining Canoe, Saxena was a managing director in the Blackstone Technology and Innovations group. During his tenure at Blackstone, Saxena oversaw application development for several business systems and enterprise platforms.
This included the integration of fund accounting systems with Canoe’s automated technology and supported various corporate functions.
Recognising the efficiencies gained from Canoe at Blackstone, Saxena was motivated to join Canoe as an executive team member to bolster Canoe’s growth and industry adoption.
Prior to Blackstone, Saxena led various software development teams at Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s, where he was most recently director of data technology. Before Capital IQ, he held various software development roles at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Sapient.
Jason Eiswerth, CEO at Canoe Intelligence, says: “We are thrilled to officially welcome Vishal Saxena to the Canoe team. For almost a year, we’ve collaborated with Vishal while implementing Canoe technology at Blackstone and have been impressed with his ability.”
Eiswerth continues: “Saxena has a highly unique track record of scaling teams and advancing technology solutions within fast-paced environments. I have no doubt that he will help propel Canoe to the next phase of growth as we continue to expand our global client base and help firms automate their alternative investment processes.”
Saxena adds: “Canoe is truly modernising the alternative investment space by simplifying data extraction, standardising data ingestion and automating manual business processes and reporting. I’m eager to get started.”
