Principal and the Head of RCR / Specialty Finance
Karan is a Principal and the Head of RCR / Specialty Finance at Eagle Point Credit Management responsible for the firm’s investments in securitized transactions.
Karan has over 27 years of experience in sourcing and executing partnerships and lending facilities with banks and non-bank specialty lenders across various asset classes. Prior to joining Eagle Point in 2022, he was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified Asset Management, where he spearheaded their investments across specialty finance and structured products. Before that, he was a part of the Structured Credit research and strategy team at Bear Stearns where he was a top ranked analyst in Institutional Investor’s All-America Fixed Income Research survey for his work in CLO and mortgage credit research. Karan started his career as an FX and Interest Rates trader at BNP Paribas in Mumbai.
Karan holds a BE from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT), an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), and an MSc in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.