Will Rhind
Will Rhind is the Founder and CEO of GraniteShares, an award-winning global investment firm dedicated to creating and managing Exchange Traded Funds. Under his leadership, GraniteShares provides innovative, cutting-edge investment solutions for the high conviction investor. Rhind is a veteran of the ETF industry with nearly 20 years of experience working at, building and running successful ETF businesses. Prior to GraniteShares, he served as CEO of SPDR Gold Trust, a $30 billion ETF owned by the World Gold Council. Before that, he was a Managing Director at ETF Securities, where he focused on the US ETF market and led the growth of the ETF securities business.
Will Rhind Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Principal
Academic History
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B.A., French, Russian, Politics and Economics
Under his leadership, GraniteShares focuses on real estate, income and disruptive core equities.
The company offers single-stock ETPs of renowned brands such as NIO, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Alibaba, and many other stocks as the underlying security.
The firm is backed by Bain Capital and is among the fastest growing ETF issuers in the world with over $3.3 billion.
GraniteShares provides products on U.S., U.K, German, French & Italian stock exchanges.
EARLY CAREER
Rhind has built and managed businesses in the ETF market for almost his entire career.
He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Nomura International in London.
At the World Gold Council, he was responsible for developing and implementing initiatives focused on expanding the use of SPDR Gold Shares and other physical Gold-backed products, as a portfolio level asset by institutional investors.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Rhind is regularly featured in financial media outlets such as Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron's.
He has also appeared in Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, Reuters, Business Insider, TheStreet, and InvestmentNews.