Our team
Sona has grown to include 46 investment and 37 business professionals, many of whom have long-standing working relationships that go back as far as 20 years for many of the senior members.
We regard our investment team as one of the most experienced teams within the industry with an average experience of 19 years across all portfolio managers and senior analysts. Having a skilled and diverse team is incredibly important to Sona.
Our team construct facilitates innovative solutions and a broadened perspective.
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83Person team
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46Investment professionals
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19Average years investment team experience
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12Languages
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15Nationalities
Executive Team
John Aylward
Founder, Chief Investment Officer
JP Berkery
Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Iain Colquhoun
Chief Financial Officer
Justin Tamaye
Chief Risk Officer
Partners
Michael Boam
Partner, Co-Head of European Leveraged Finance Research
Thrishan Ramakrishnan
Partner, Portfolio Manager EU IG & Financials
Owain Griffiths
Partner, CapSol Portfolio Manager
Christopher Louw
Partner, Portfolio Manager US HY
Albert Marino
Partner, Head of Strategic Development
Leadership Team
Mark Dawson
Head of Treasury & Portfolio Finance
Abigail Draper
Director of Investor Relations
Gabriel Erasmus
Head of Portfolio Performance
Jared Erbst
Head of Structured Credit and Insurance Solutions
Michael Faasen
Head of Fund Accounting
Patrick Keneally
Managing Director, Structured Credit
Chris Hart
Portfolio Manager, EM
Lee Hope
Co-Head of European Leveraged Finance Research
Joon Kim
Managing Director
Alexandra Kings
Director, UK Operations
Shaan Lal
Portfolio Manager, Convertibles & Equity-Linked
Shannan Lin
Director, US Operations
Katherine Reece
Head of Human Resources
Stephen Smith
Head of Capital Markets
Narina Valimahomed
Director of Business Development
Ludovic Walter
Co-Head of European CLOs
Jacob Walton
Co-Head of European CLOs
