Ashish serves as a Managing Director, Investments at Cresset. In this role, he oversees the development and implementation of sophisticated investment solutions, leveraging his extensive experience in risk management, analytics, and portfolio construction.
Prior to joining Cresset, Ashish served as a Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager on the Investment Strategy team. Ashish was responsible for risk management, analytics and liquid market and hedge fund strategies, and was a member of the Investment Committee. Previously, he spent three years managing risk and researching new investment strategies at Koch Supply & Trading in Houston. Ashish oversaw strategies that spanned across all liquid asset classes – equities, interest rates, FX, and commodities. He was also involved in developing new strategies in the equities and commodities markets, which generated alpha over comparable indices. Before that, he worked on the investment team of a convertible arbitrage hedge fund. He has also been a consultant on pricing strategies with a myriad of industries in the travel & transport, industrial and financial services sectors. He helped his clients generate revenue growth by better aligning supply with demand and understanding the sensitivity of their customer base to prices.
Ashish earned an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.