Keenan has been with BlackRock since 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile, and most recently served as the firm’s head of private bank distribution for Singapore. Before that, he was head of exchange-traded fund specialists for Asia excluding Japan.

He will be based in Singapore. Keenan replaces Tan Yuan Kueh, who left BlackRock in late September, a spokesperson for the firm told this publication.

As recently reported, assets under management at BlackRock rose 14 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter to stand at $5.117 trillion at the end of September.