Bindesh Savjani joins ICG as global risk officer

UK's private equity firm, Intermediate Capital Group has created a new role that oversees risk and compliance in response to regulation and demands from shareholders and investors, hiring previous director of legal and risk at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Bindesh Savjani for the newly established post. Savjani will take global responsibility for risk, compliance, legal and internal audit across a team of seven people, and will report to chief financial officer Philip Keller. At SWIP which later became a part of Aberdeen Asset Management, he was responsible for legal, regulatory risk, investment risk, operational risk and governance. He has also worked with Ernst & Young where he was a senior member of the risk consulting practice.