Our team
Sona has grown to include 53 investment and 51 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 20 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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104Person team
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53Investment professionals
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20Average years senior investment team experience
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13Languages
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16Nationalities
Partners

John Aylward
Founder, Chief Investment Officer

Christopher Louw
Partner, Portfolio Manager US HY

JP Berkery
Partner, Chief Operating Officer

Albert Marino
Partner, Head of Strategic Development

Owain Griffiths
Partner, Head of Capital Solutions

Thrishan Ramakrishnan
Partner, Head of Spread Products

Shaan Lal
Partner, Portfolio Manager, Convertibles & Equity-Linked

Jonathan Williamson
Partner, Senior Trader
Leadership Team

Gautam Chhabra
Managing Director

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

Chris Hart
Portfolio Manager, EM

Steve Holdener
Director, Hong Kong Operations and Compliance

Lee Hope
Co-Head of European Leveraged Finance Research

Ujjwala Jain
Head of Systems Development

Jusdeep Judge
Managing Director

Brian Kelly
Portfolio Manager, Merger Arb

Patrick Keneally
Managing Director, Structured Credit

Joon Kim
Managing Director

Alexandra Kings
Director, UK Operations

Shannan Lin
Director, US Operations

Aymeric Paillat
Portfolio Manager, Structured Credit

Katherine Reece
Head of Human Resources

Siddhanth Sarin
Director

Justin Shih
Deputy COO

Stephen Smith
Head of Capital Markets

Justin Tamaye
Chief Risk Officer

Narina Valimahomed
Director of Business Development

Ludovic Walter
Co-Head of European CLOs

Jacob Walton
Co-Head of European CLOs