CEO, Covestor. Asheesh is an entrepreneur and business builder. He started his career as a consultant with Monitor Group and the World Bank. He subsequently founded CircleLending which helped pioneer the business of peer-to-peer loans and was acquired by the Virgin Group. From 2007 to 2009, Asheesh served as CEO of Virgin Money USA, the American arm of Virgin’s consumer financial services business. Prior to joining Covestor, he served as Global Head of Financial Advisor Products at Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company.
Asheesh serves on the Financial Advisory Committee of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, and is on the board of Young Presidents’ Organization in Boston, CFED, and Babson Global.
Asheesh is a graduate of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.
Covestor CEO Asheesh Advani on choosing the right active manager for your online investing needs.
What investors really lack is a framework - a marketplace - to assess all products in the same way we do for some of the most important things in our lives today: jobs, doctors, even life partners.