Tim Nest

Head of Private Credit at Aksia

Speaker

Tim is Head of Private Credit and has over 22 years of experience in alternative investments with a primary focus in private markets and credit. He oversees the global private credit investment research platform and works with a broad group of global investors focused on the private credit asset class. His team focuses on sourcing, screening, evaluating and monitoring credit-oriented investments accessed across a variety of structures including primaries, co-investments/directs and secondaries. Prior to joining Aksia in 2015, Tim spent several years as a Vice President at Frontier Capital Advisors, a secondary investment firm. Before that, Tim worked for GSC Group, focusing on two credit-based funds including the firm's distressed corporate credit and structured credit strategies. Tim began his career as an Analyst in PwC's Corporate Finance practice. Tim graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Finance and Information Systems (dual degree). He holds an M.B.A. in Corporate Finance and Law and Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University with specializations in Corporate Finance and Law and Business.