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Keshav Rajagopalan is Principal, Head of Product & Strategy, in PGIM Portfolio Advisory (PPA). In this role, Mr. Rajagopalan leads PPA’s client-facing efforts, including product and capability development and deployment, client engagement and marketing, and other strategic initiatives. PPA is PGIM’s investment affiliate focused on multi-asset class solutions, including strategic asset allocation and asset-liability management, for institutional investors.

Prior to joining PPA, Mr. Rajagopalan was in the PGIM Institutional Relationship Group (IRG), where he focused on chief investment officer relationships for PGIM’s institutional clients in the US and Canada. He also was responsible for strategic client initiatives globally.

Before IRG, Mr. Rajagopalan spent three years in PGIM Investments as co-head of the exchange-traded funds business, where he was responsible for the firm’s entrance into the space, launching six actively-managed ETFs that grew to over $750 million in assets under his leadership. He also has spent time in the business strategy group at PGIM, supporting the CEO and the firm’s other senior leaders.

Mr. Rajagopalan joined PGIM from Limestone Capital Advisors, a boutique oil and gas private equity firm focused on outbound investment from Asia into the US energy sector. Prior to that, he was a Senior Associate at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he worked on strategy for financial services firms.

He received a BA and BS from The University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors and was elected student body president of the 50,000-student campus. He also has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Mr. Rajagopalan serves as an Officer in the US Navy Reserve and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He holds FINRA Series 7, 63 and 65 licenses.