Kengeter is chairman, partner and co-founder of Circuitus Capital, a London-based asset management firm specializing in infrastructure equity investments across Europe and Latin America; and Bhattacharyya is an investor and fintech advisor as founder and CEO of YY Capital. While at Deutsche, Bhattacharyya also ran its Americas foreign exchange  and emerging markets business.

The two are established industry figures. Kengeter has spent three decades in investment banking, asset management and market infrastructure helping grow global businesses. He previously served as CEO of Deutsche Boerse Group and before that was chair and CEO of UBS Investment Bank. He also sat on the Swiss bank’s group executive board. Prior to UBS, he was a partner and co-head of the securities division Asia at Goldman Sachs.

Bhattacharyya has spent 25 years in financial services across trading and capital markets, 17 of those at Deutsche Bank. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

"We are extremely pleased Carsten and Raj have joined the board," said Gaurav Bhandari, board chair at Robertson Stephens and managing partner at Long Arc Capital.  "Their decades of experience leading some of the biggest franchises in the industry and their more recent entrepreneurial endeavors will prove invaluable as we continue to build Robertson Stephens into a firm of distinction, applying the best technology and industry resources available to transform the management of wealth for our clients."

The new additions bring the board up to seven members. Besides board chair Bhandari, other members include Stuart Katz, CEO and CIO of Robertson Stephens, and Kipp Nelson, Ranu Dayal and Tobin Whamond from Long Arc Capital. Robertson Stephens WM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Robertson Stephens Holdings and serves HNWs and family offices from locations in San Francisco, New York, Sun Valley, Idaho; and Holmdel, New Jersey.