Kanchan Jain

Head of Ascertis Credit Group

Ms. Kanchan Jain has 30 years of experience across private credit, corporate and structured finance, loan markets and debt capital markets across Europe and Asia and in various roles across origination, structuring, underwriting and risk. As Head of Ascertis Credit Group, Ms. Jain is responsible for the overall business across its investment & non-investment functions. Over the last 11 years, Ms. Jain, along with leadership team at Ascertis Credit (formerly BPEA Credit), has led the creation and build-out of one of the leading private credit management groups in Asia, focused on the fast-growing mid-market corporate sector. Before moving to India in 2008, Ms. Jain worked for 10 years based out of London as Managing Director at HSBC, and before that as Director at Barclays Capital in the Structured Credit business. Prior to that, Ms. Jain worked in the Asian debt capital markets across debt syndication, loan trading & risk, based out of Hong Kong and in project finance based out of India. Ms. Jain has lived and worked in Asia & Europe across multiple stints. She holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from VNIT.