Fund Manager Profile
Kanchan Jain
Head of Ascertis Credit Group
Kanchan Jain brings over 31 years to the table, with a background in things like corporate and structured finance, private credit, and loan and capital markets in Europe and Asia. She's got experience in originating, structuring, underwriting, and managing risk.
As the Head of Ascertis Credit Group, Kanchan takes care of the whole shebang, from investments to everything else. In the past 11 years, she and her team turned Ascertis Credit into a top private credit group in Asia, homing in on the quickly expanding mid-market corporate scene. Before she came back to India in 2008, Kanchan was a Managing Director at HSBC in London for over ten years, and before that, a Director at Barclays Capital in Structured Credit. And before all that, she was working in Asian debt capitals, doing debt syndication, loan trading, and risk stuff in Hong Kong, and project finance in India. She’s lived and worked in India, Asia, and the UK, and has a Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering from VNIT and an MBA from IIM Kolkata.
