Tim Nest, CFA

Partner, Co-Head Private Credit

Tim is a Partner and Co-Head of Private Credit and has over 25 years of experience in alternative investments, with a primary focus on private markets and credit. He oversees the global private credit investment research platform and works with a broad group of global investors focused on the private credit asset class. His team focuses on sourcing, screening, evaluating, and monitoring credit-oriented investments accessed across a variety of structures, including primaries, co-investments/directs, and secondaries.

Prior to joining Aksia, Tim helped manage and invest capital for a credit-oriented secondary investment fund manager called Frontier Capital (“Frontier”). Transaction types reviewed and completed included direct loan portfolio purchases, individual credit purchases on a secondary basis, indirect credit portfolio and single name portfolio purchases, fund liquidations/claims, and NAV loans. Prior to that, Tim worked for GSC Group, focusing on two credit-based funds including the firm’s distressed corporate credit and structured credit strategies. Notably, Tim helped raise capital for a distressed structured credit vehicle in the wake of the financial crisis. Tim started his career working on various investment banking, financial advisory, and valuation assignments for a range of corporate and PE sponsor clients.

Tim graduated from Boston College with a BS in Finance and Information Systems (dual degree). He holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Law and Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University with specializations in Corporate Finance and Law and Business. He is a CFA charterholder.