Lina serves as Managing Director at Cresset in Dallas, Texas. In this role, she works closely with clients and their families to help them identify and achieve their short- and long-term goals.
Prior to Cresset, Lina was a Managing Director on the Partner Relations team at CH Investment Partners, which she joined in 2018. Before that, Lina spent 11 years at Barings, a global institutional investment management firm, where she led the global digital marketing team. Her prior experience includes equity research at Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong, portfolio attribution at Jardine Fleming in Tokyo, and quantitative asset management at Flemings Investment Management in London. Lina has also been an advisory board member of Headstorm, a technology consultancy firm headquartered in Dallas since 2022.
Lina has a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Cambridge. Lina is active in the Dallas community and serves as a trustee of Texas Health Resources Foundation and previously served on the boards of Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas and Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center (Charlotte, NC). A native of Singapore, Lina speaks English, Tamil, basic Mandarin, and beginners’ Japanese and Portuguese.
Lina enjoys playing tennis and traveling with her children, Sesha and Kala.