Anshu Jain

Anshuman "Anshu" Jain (7 January 1963 – 12 August 2022) was an Indian-born British business executive. From 2017 to 2022, he was the president of the American financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. He previously served as the Global co-CEO and co-Chairman of Deutsche Bank from June 2012 until July 2015. Jain was also a member of Deutsche Bank's Management Board. He was previously head of its Corporate and Investment Bank, globally responsible for Deutsche Bank's corporate finance, sales and trading, and transaction banking business. Jain remained a consultant to the bank until January 2016.

Early life and education

Jain was born on 7 January 1963 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and his father Ambuj Kumar Jain was a history teacher who became a career civil servant and served in the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. He was raised in the Jain religion and was a vegetarian. When he was six, Jain moved with his father to Nizamuddin West in Delhi, and attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.

From 1975 to 1977, Jain briefly attended a private Indian school in Kabul due to his father's job transfer before moving back to Delhi and completing his schooling from DPS, Mathura Road.

He studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce at the University of Delhi and earned Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1983. He then moved to the U.S. at the age of 19, and in 1985 he received a Master of Business Administration in finance from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. At the university, he studied with Thomas Schneeweis, an expert in alternative investments such as futures, options, and derivatives.