Suneel Kaji is a Senior Portfolio Manager-Private Investments for the Rohatyn Group and TRG Management LP, having joined TRG in April 2009, and is based out of both TRG headquarters in New York as well as its Hong Kong office. Suneel manages the origination, evaluation, structuring, and diligence of private as well as illiquid public investment opportunities in the US, particularly those companies with an active Pacific Rim cross-border business exposure, as well as investment pursuits in East and South Asia. These investments encompass non-control later stage private equity, control later stage private equity, mezzanine, as well as distressed debt (from a control/fulcrum debt perspective) and some illiquid convertible investments. Suneel is also actively involved in respect of capital raising for TRG’s illiquid investment activities with institutional investors from the US as well as sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to joining TRG, Suneel was a Managing Director at the GEM-Kinderhook Fund responsible for control buyout and minority equity linked investments, sourcing prospect flow in the US, East Asia, and the MENA region; managing diligence, valuation and structuring and for the arrangement of mezzanine as well as control and structured minority equity investments, both on a standalone basis and alongside other buyout and hedge fund co-investors. Prior to joining GEM-Kinderhook, Suneel was a Principal at Crown Capital Group, a mid-cap private equity group established in New York and London by Drexel, Apollo, and DLJ Merchant Banking alumni. Suneel was responsible for control buyout investments in the US and Europe, and in that role, the origination and development of senior lending relationships, strategic, financial and legal due diligence, market research, structuring of equity, bank debt and working capital facilities. Suneel's prior role had been with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, based in New York and Hong Kong, and was focused on large-cap LBO and mezzanine investments in the US, Eastern Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Suneel started his career in finance at Salomon Brothers focused on M&A and leveraged finance. Suneel received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in Economics from The Wharton School.