Bharat Desai
InvestorAssociate 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
- Community Investment ManagementSenior Investment Managercurrent2026 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
- Community Investment ManagementManager, Investments2025 — 2026New York City Metropolitan Area
- Community Investment ManagementSenior Investment Analyst2023 — 2025New York City Metropolitan Area
- Community Investment ManagementInvestment Analyst2022 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Impact Credit SolutionsSenior Data Scientist2021Singapore
- Impact Credit SolutionsData Scientist, Risk Analytics2020 — 2021Singapore
- Impact Credit SolutionsGraduate Data Scientist, Risk Analytics2019 — 2020Singapore / Jakarta
- SingtelIntern (Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence)2018Singapore
- Republic of Singapore Air ForceCQMS 705 BCP/SQCP (Rank: 3rd Seargant)2014 — 2015Singapore
Skills & more
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Emerging MarketsMachine LearningProject ManagementStatistical ModelingStatistical Data AnalysisPhotographyGraphic DesignMilitary LogisticsProcurementMarketingData AnalysisData MiningLanguages 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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Frequently asked questions
- 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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