Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has added two senior professionals to its private equity and private markets business as it continues to expand the range of alternative investment solutions it offers clients.

Claudio Siniscalco joins as global co-head of co-investments and Jason Sambanju joins as head of Asia secondaries. They will both report to global head of private equities, Carlo Pirzio-Biroli, from London and Hong Kong respectively.

"Siniscalco and Sambanju’s appointment enables us to build on the momentum in our secondary business and to expand our ability to offer co-investment opportunities to clients within our private equity business, as well as in other private markets," said Pirzio-Biroli.

Siniscalco will take the lead on DeAWM’s platform for private investments in wealth management, servicing ultra-high net worth and key clients.

He will be responsible for sourcing and executing co-investment opportunities for discretionary and non-discretionary private equity mandates, along with fellow co-head Francesco Rigamonti.

Sambanju will be responsible for sourcing and executing secondary private equity investment opportunities across the Asia region.

Siniscalco was most recently with HarbourVest Partners, where he was a principal and co-head of the London direct investment team, with responsibility for sourcing, executing and monitoring co-investments in private equity in Emea.

Sambanju was previously co-head of Asia for Paul Capital, where he established and managed the firm's Hong Kong office and was responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring private equity secondary deals across Asia.