COO, Ares Management
Mr. Bajpai has been in the finance industry for over 30 years with wide ranging investment experience in Debt and Equity Markets across sectors and geographies. His spectrum of responsibilities have included senior roles in origination, execution, syndication, risk management, recoveries and proprietary trading of high grade, leveraged finance and distressed credits through multiple global and regional financial crises.
Mr. Bajpai is currently a Partner and Chief Operating Officer in Ares Asia. Additionally, Mr. Bajpai serves as an investment committee member for various Ares Asia funds primarily focused on credit. Mr. Bajpai also sits in the board of various companies in the region as part of portfolio management activities within Ares Asia.
Before joining Ares Asia in June 2016, Mr. Bajpai was with Bank of America Merrill Lynch for over 15 years, with various roles in Hong Kong and Singapore. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Ares Asia, Mr. Bajpai has successfully led complex recoveries and restructurings, many of which involved intense negotiations, judicial proceedings, and arbitrations across multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Bajpai is passionately involved with various charity efforts within Ares as well as independently. He holds a Bachelor (Honors) Degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.