Bharat Desai
InvestorSenior Manager, Investments at Community Investment Management · Associate at Nexxus Capital
New York City
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
R (Programming Language)Microsoft Excel3Python (Programming Language)6Photoshop6Microsoft PowerPoint3R3Python2Google AnalyticsAsset Management1Securitization1Fixed-Income InvestingHigh Yield Bonds
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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
From Bharat's professional profile.
Colleagues at Community Investment Management
Alberto Mulás
Principal, Investments at Community Investment Management
Alberto Tani
Principal, Investments at Community Investment Management
Alejandra Granados
Manager, Investments at Community Investment Management
Alejandro Arenas
Senior Director, Investments at Community Investment Management
Andrea Bernal
Operations Associate at Community Investment Management
Arash Gourtani
Senior Director, Investments at Community Investment Management
Audrey Gordon
Senior Director, Investments at Community Investment Management
Barry Joseph
Director, Risk at Community Investment Management
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 Senior Manager, Investments at Community Investment Management.
- 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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Shared employers
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