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Bharat Desai

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Associate at Nexxus Capital · Senior Manager, Investments at Community Investment Management

New York City

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About

Bharat Desai is a Senior Manager on CIM's investment team based in New York City. He previously worked as a senior data scientist at Nikel, an embedded finance company in Southeast Asia, focusing on fintech credit due diligence and portfolio monitoring, and earlier conducted machine learning research at the NUS-Singtel R&D Lab. He holds a B.Eng in Systems Engineering from the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Invests in

Fintech

Experience

  1. Community Investment ManagementSenior Investment Managercurrent2026 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  2. Community Investment ManagementManager, Investments2025 — 2026New York City Metropolitan Area
  3. Community Investment ManagementSenior Investment Analyst2023 — 2025New York City Metropolitan Area
  4. Community Investment ManagementInvestment Analyst2022 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Impact Credit SolutionsSenior Data Scientist2021Singapore
  6. Impact Credit SolutionsData Scientist, Risk Analytics2020 — 2021Singapore
  7. Impact Credit SolutionsGraduate Data Scientist, Risk Analytics2019 — 2020Singapore / Jakarta
  8. SingtelIntern (Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence)2018Singapore
  9. Republic of Singapore Air ForceCQMS 705 BCP/SQCP (Rank: 3rd Seargant)2014 — 2015Singapore

Skills & more

R (Programming Language)Microsoft Excel3Python (Programming Language)6Photoshop6Microsoft PowerPoint3R3Python2Google AnalyticsAsset Management1Securitization1Fixed-Income InvestingHigh Yield Bonds
+12 moreEmerging MarketsMachine LearningProject ManagementStatistical ModelingStatistical Data AnalysisPhotographyGraphic DesignMilitary LogisticsProcurementMarketingData AnalysisData Mining

Languages English · Hindi · Indonesian · Japanese

  • Negotiation and Leadership — Harvard Law School
  • GCP Associate Cloud Engineer — Udemy
  • Causal Data Science with Directed Acyclic Graphs — Udemy
  • Credit Analyst Training — Udemy
  • Tableau Data Scientist — Tableau
  • Credit Risk Modelling in Python — 365 Careers
  • Lending, Crowdfunding, and Modern Investing — University of Pennsylvania
  • Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval — University of Washington
  • SUTD-MIT Leadership Programme (LEAD) — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stanford International Honors Programme — Stanford University

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Who is Bharat Desai?
Bharat Desai is a Senior Manager on CIM's investment team based in New York City. He previously worked as a senior data scientist at Nikel, an embedded finance company in Southeast Asia, focusing on fintech credit due diligence and portfolio monitoring, and earlier conducted machine learning research at the NUS-Singtel R&D Lab. He holds a B.Eng in Systems Engineering from the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Where does Bharat Desai work?
Bharat Desai is Associate at Nexxus Capital.
What does Bharat Desai invest in?
Bharat Desai invests in Fintech.
Where did Bharat Desai go to school?
Bharat Desai studied at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (BSc. Engineering Systems Design, Business Analytics); Stanford University (Global Leadership Program (GLP) - International Honors Program); National Junior College, Singapore (Integrated Programme Student).

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