Seattle-based Russell Investments has promoted Irshaad Ahmad to the new role of managing director, UK. 

Mr Ahmad joins the EMEA team from Russell’s Canadian business, which he joined in 2004 from Mercer where he held a senior role in their investment consulting business in Canada.

Russell Investments is a global investment company with $151 billion in assets under management at 30 June 2009. The firm serves individual, institutional and advisor clients in more than 40 countries and provides mutual funds, retirement investments, institutional asset management, implementation services and global stock market indexes.