KEF Holdings
Kshitij Harve, CFA, is an accomplished investment analyst currently employed at KEF Holdings since February 2021, with prior experience as an investment counsellor at a multi-family office from January 2017 to February 2021. Kshitij has significant expertise in engaging with market makers, applying various valuation methods across credit and risk assets, and determining risk-return parameters to optimize strategic allocations. Kshitij’s role has involved contributing to discretionary portfolio management, particularly in the fixed income asset class, and managing investment advisory services to support sales teams. Earlier in the career, Kshitij gained valuable research experience at Global Investment Bank Limited and an accounting internship at Seamaster Maritime L.L.C. Educationally, Kshitij holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Accounting and Finance from the University of London, obtained between 2008 and 2012.
KEF Holdings
At KEF Holdings we invest in businesses that are innovative, sustainable, cost-effective and deliver positive disruptive solutions across core business sectors encompassing infrastructure, healthcare and technology, to benefit society and build a better tomorrow. We have a 20 year legacy of building successful businesses. Our journey began in 1995 with the opening of Al Ahamadi General Trading in Ajman, following this we launched our world-class Foundry, and a valve trading company JC Middle East. We then created Emirates Techno Casting, an integrated facility incorporating cutting edge engineering and design lab, the world’s largest automatic moulding line, steel refining furnace, machine shop and research and development lab, rated amongst the top 3 technologically advanced foundries in the world. In 2012 Tyco International, bought the business for USD 400 million, becoming the impetus for the launch of KEF Holdings' two new verticals KEF Investments and KEF Infra. In KEF Investments, we have built a global investment portfolio by capitalising on low risk, high-income opportunities in growing markets. In the year 2018, KEF Infra announced a strategic merger with Katerra, the Menlo Park US-based technology company, revolutionizing the design and construction industries. Staying true to our belief of being a social-enterprise the company, in close collaboration with stakeholders in the public and private sectors, actively drives, funds and supports high-impact social activities undertaken by the Faizal & Shabana Foundation Our mission: "Be Different. Make a Difference."