Pankaj Gupta

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Mr. Pankaj Gupta serves as President, WhiteHorse U.S., Management and Investment Committee Member & Global Head of Originations at WhiteHorse Finance BDC. He serves as President of WhiteHorse, U.S., Management and Investment Committees Member, and Global Head of Originations at H.I.G. Capital. He is involved in all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction structuring, financing, and execution of post-closing growth strategies. He has over fourteen years of experience in private debt and equity investing across a broad range of industries, including business services, manufacturing, distribution, telecom, healthcare, consumer products, and consumer services. Before joining Whitehorse, Pankaj was a Managing Director with American Capital, a middle-market investment firm. While at ACAS, he was a co-head of the debt investment business. Pankaj also sat on the Board of Directors of several ACAS portfolio companies. Before ACAS, Pankaj spent six years at Audax Group, a Boston and New York-based private equity and mezzanine firm with $5 billion under management. As a Senior Vice President with Audax, Mr. Gupta was responsible for the origination, structuring, execution, and monitoring of mezzanine investments. Before Audax, Mr. Gupta was an Associate in the Private Equity group of Whitney, and before Whitney, he was an Analyst in the High Yield and Merchant Banking Group of CIBC World Markets. Pankaj received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth College.