Jackie Selby, EMBA '21, hosts a conversation with Ujjaval Desai, SB ’94, MEng ’95, Head of Structured Products Investing & Portfolio Manager at Sound Point Capital, on how lessons learned at MIT foster innovation, disruptive ideas, and support identifying and capitalizing on new asset classes.
Mr. Desai joined Sound Point in 2019 and is currently Head of Structured Products Investing and a Portfolio Manager for the Harbor/Meridian Strategy and the CLO Fund. Additionally, Mr. Desai serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. (NYSE: SPMC). Mr. Desai also serves on Sound Point's Management Committee and is a member on most risk, investment and valuation committees at the firm. Prior to joining Sound Point, Mr. Desai was a Partner at Ares Management, where he was the Head of Global Structured Products and European Liquid Loans and served as a Portfolio Manager for over $6 billion of structured credit funds and CLOs. Prior to his six years at Ares, Mr. Desai was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Indicus Advisors, a structured credit and leveraged finance asset manager, which was started in 2006 and sold to Ares in 2011. Prior to Indicus Advisors, Mr. Desai was Head of Structured Credit origination and structuring business at J.P. Morgan in London and Goldman Sachs in London and New York. Having started his career in 1996, Mr. Desai has been one of the earliest participants in the CDO markets, with significant origination, structuring and investment expertise.
Mr. Desai earned a B.S., M.S., and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ujjaval Desai
SB '94, MEng '95
Head of Structured Products Investing & Portfolio Manager at Sound Point Capital