Our team
Sona has grown to include 53 investment and 52 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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105Person 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
Executive Team
John Aylward
Founder, Chief Investment Officer
JP Berkery
Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Justin Tamaye
Chief Risk Officer
Partners
Michael Boam
Partner, Co-Head of European Leveraged Finance Research
Albert Marino
Partner, Head of Strategic Development
Owain Griffiths
Partner, Head of Capital Solutions
Thrishan Ramakrishnan
Partner, Portfolio Manager EU IG & Financials
Shaan Lal
Partner, Portfolio Manager, Convertibles & Equity-Linked
Jonathan Williamson
Partner, Senior Trader
Christopher Louw
Partner, Portfolio Manager US HY
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
Patrick Keneally
Managing Director, Structured Credit
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
Joon Kim
Managing Director
Alexandra Kings
Director, UK Operations
Shannan Lin
Director, US Operations
Aymeric Paillat
Portfolio Manager, Structured Credit
Phil Patafio
Portfolio Manager, US IG
Katherine Reece
Head of Human Resources
Siddhanth Sarin
Director
Justin Shih
Deputy COO
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
