Sumit Bhandari

Lead Portfolio Manager, Asia Private Credit, Allianz Global Investors

Sumit has over 20 years of experience in investment management and business development and is currently the Lead Portfolio Manager for AllianzGI’s Asia Private Credit team. Prior to AllianzGI, he was Portfolio Manager and Head of Asia Private Credit for Abraaj in Asia where he was instrumental in setting up Abraaj’s Private Credit business in Asia and was a key man for the fund. Prior to Abraaj, Sumit was a Director and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock in Singapore where he co-managed BlackRock’s Asian Credit portfolios and was responsible for its illiquid, distressed and liquid fund investments. Prior to BlackRock, he was a Vice President in the Principal Investments Group at Lehman Brothers in New York where he was responsible for co-managing Lehman’s US$ 2 billion portfolio of direct fixed income / mezzanine investments. He was involved in a number of prominent global restructurings post 2008. Before that he was an M&A Analyst and then an Associate in the Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers in New York. Sumit holds a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and a M.S. from University of Michigan.