MORGAN STANLEY AT WORK
“Historically speaking , there ’ s never been a highly sophisticated infrastructure to provide easy liquidity solutions in the private marketplace and Morgan Stanley at Work is taking a progressive approach to solving that challenge ”
KEVIN SWAN CO-HEAD OF GLOBAL PRIVATE MARKETS , MORGAN STANLEY AT WORK
company online or through your financial advisor ,” Swan says .
However , in the private marketplace , this can be more of a challenge , as historically speaking , there ’ s never been a highly sophisticated infrastructure to provide easy liquidity solutions . Morgan Stanley at Work is taking a progressive approach to solving that challenge by building a trading infrastructure and transaction execution framework that caters to private markets and is designed with an issuer perspective .
Specific protocols for private companies Unsurprisingly , the private markets don ' t operate in the same way as public markets . Regulation is quite different , and the private investor community often has different objectives and time horizons than public investors . Morgan Stanley at Work offers
EXECUTIVE BIO
KEVIN SWAN
TITLE : CO-HEAD OF GLOBAL PRIVATE MARKETS
INDUSTRY : FINANCIAL SERVICES LOCATION : ALBERTA , CANADA
Kevin Swan is a Managing
Director of Morgan Stanley in Wealth Management . He is Co-Head of Global Private Markets for Morgan Stanley At Work which delivers equity management , liquidity , and workplace solutions to private companies . He joined Morgan Stanley through the acquisition of Solium Capital where he served as the VP of Corporate Development .
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley , Kevin held roles in product management and corporate development , was a Partner at venture capital firm Inovia Capital , and served as a board member at several venture backed technology startups . Kevin has a B . Sc . from the University of Alberta and a M . S . from Stanford University where he studied mechatronics and control systems .