Geneva-headquartered Lombard Odier Investment Managers has appointed Jan Straatman to the newly-created role of chief investment officer, effective from March next year. Based in London, in his new role he will report to Hubert Keller, managing partner at Lombard Odier.

Straatman is currently global CIO at ING Investment Management, where he oversees €300 billion ($398 billion) of client assets.

Straatman joined ING’s European asset management unit as CIO in 2008, before subsequently becoming global CIO. Previously, he was chief executive and CIO at Pearl Group in London between 2006 and 2008.

Lombard Odier Investment Managers is a subsidiary of Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie. The firm managed over SFr33.7 billion ($36.2 billion) at the end of September.