Graham Macken joins KPMG Investment Management team

KPMG has announced the appointment of Graham Macken as a Partner to the firm’s Performance and Technology consultancy practice.

[UKPRwire, Wed Sep 15 2010] Graham will be joining the Investment Management team, which delivers advice and solutions across a range of issues including regulatory change, operational transformation, deal support, product and distribution strategies and IT.

He joins KPMG from Navigant Consulting, where as Managing Director, he spearheaded the growth of the firm’s Investment Management Advisory practice in Europe.

Graham has more than 20 years’ industry and advisory experience, working for Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Graham is a specialist in managing business change programmes and advising investment managers on outsourcing capability, strategy, governance and commercial positioning.

At KPMG, Graham’s role will be to help expand the service offering to its investment management clients, to continue to build relationships with existing and new clients and to help drive the expansion of the team. He will also be responsible for continuing to ensure that KPMG’s clients have access to the breadth and depth of services the firm is able to offer to address complex issues across multiple regions by offering a combination of global reach with local expertise.

Tom Brown, Head of Investment Management for KPMG in the UK, said: “I am delighted to welcome Graham to KPMG. With his extensive consulting experience and knowledge of the Investment Management industry he is a key addition to our growing team”

Scott Parker, Head of KPMG Performance & Technology, UK, said: “At KPMG, we have ambitious growth plans for our Performance & Technology consultancy offering, and enhancing our considerable investment management advisory capability is a key part of this strategy.

“Graham’s extensive experience of advising investment managers and knowledge of the industry will significantly strengthen our proposition to the sector.”

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KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, is a subsidiary of KPMG Europe LLP and operates from 22 offices across the UK with nearly 11,000 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a turnover of £1.6 billion in the year ended September 2009. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and have 140,000 professionals working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"), a Swiss entity. KPMG International provides no client services.