Sachin Patel joined Neuberger Berman in August 2022 as a Managing Director on its Specialty Finance team. Prior to joining the firm, Sachin founded the Global Capital Markets group at Funding Circle Holdings Plc, and served on the boards of its listed and private asset management companies. He was responsible for all aspects of the Capital Markets businesses, from the overall strategic direction, governance and risk management to the day-to-day operations of the sales, structuring and execution teams. During his tenure, Sachin was responsible for its many capital raises and funding transactions, including the IPO of the Funding Circle SME Income Fund, launching the U.K. and U.S. securitization programs, and building the private debt funds business. He also developed Funding Circle’s partnerships with U.K. and European government entities and led the funding of loans under the government-backed Recovery Loan Scheme and Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme to support small businesses through the pandemic. Prior to that, Sachin worked in the Insurance & Pensions ALM Solutions business at Barclays Capital, advising and structuring private credit investments for European insurance companies and pension funds across a broad spectrum of consumer, SME and asset-backed receivables. Sachin started his career in the cross-asset structured products business at JPMorgan, designing and structuring investments across fixed income, credit and equities, from complex structured transactions to derivatives and flow products. Sachin holds an MPhys (Physics) from Oxford University.