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Piers Wheeler

Head of UK Sales at KraneShares

Piers Wheeler is the current Head of UK Sales at KraneShares, a China focused ETF provider with AUM of $9 billion. New York City headquartered, majority CICC owned.Responsible for business development, client relationship management and marketing. Non-Executive Director of KraneShares ICAV Board.

Piers Wheeler has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. Piers started their career at Knight Frank in September 2003 as an Associate Partner in the City Investment & Development team. In September 2008, they moved to DTZ as Head of Capital Markets for the GCC region. After a year at DTZ, they joined AMP Capital in September 2010 as Head of Institutional Business for the GCC region. In August 2012, they joined Eastspring Investments as Director: UK, Europe & GCC Distribution. Eastspring Investments is an Asia-based asset manager established in 1994 with $182 billion in assets under management. Piers was responsible for business development, client relationship management and marketing in the UK, Europe and the GCC. In May 2019, Piers left Eastspring Investments to join KraneShares as Managing Director. KraneShares is a China focused ETF provider with AUM of $9 billion. New York City headquartered, majority CICC owned.Responsible for business development, client relationship management and marketing. Non-Executive Director of KraneShares ICAV Board.

Piers Wheeler has a BA Hons from the University of Oxford and an MA from Cass Business School. Piers is also certified from the CFA Institute in CFA Institute Investment Foundation and from RICS in MRICS.

Piers Wheeler reports to Dr. Xiaolin Chen, Head of International. Some of their coworkers include Nan Li - Investment Analyst (Asia), Sjef Pieters - Head of European Sales, and Vincent Chen - Executive Director (Asia).


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  • Head of UK Sales

    Current role