The newly-appointed figure has worked at banks such as CMB, Barclays and HSBC.

Azura Partners has appointed Kamran Djavadi (main photo) as group chief operating officer, based in Monaco. He reports the firm’s founder, chairman and CEO, Ali Jamal.

Djavadi has served as chief operating officer and deputy CEO for large banking organisations, and held leadership positions at KPMG, HSBC, CMB and Barclays. He has expertise across operations, finance, technology, transformation and multi-jurisdictional business management throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Most recently, Djavadi was COO deputy CEO at CMB in Monaco.

“At Azura our ambition is clear: build a global wealth manager from Monaco. Kamran's arrival gives that real momentum as he brings deep understanding of the Principality ecosystem and years of leading operations and transformation across Europe and the Middle East,” Frédéric Genta, chairman of Azura Partners Monaco, said.

In May last year, Lunate, an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm – managing assets for Abu Dhabi sovereign investor ADQ and others – took a stake in Azura. 

Azura was founded in 2019; this news service interviewed Jamal (pictured below), a former Julius Baer figure, about strategy. 

Ali Jamal