During his career at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Manani held several senior regional and global leadership positions. Most recently, he served as Head of the Asset Management Client Business for Australia and New Zealand and as a member of the Goldman Sachs Australia and New Zealand Operating Committee. In this role, he was responsible for institutional client strategy and business development across the firm’s public and private markets capabilities.

Previously, Mr. Manani served as Head of Strategic Funds Financing for Asia Pacific, where he advised hedge funds, asset managers and other institutional clients on financing, liquidity and balance-sheet solutions. He worked closely with prime brokerage, derivatives and financing teams across the region.

Mr. Manani also spent more than a decade in Goldman Sachs’ Prime Services business in Hong Kong and Singapore, ultimately becoming Head of Prime Services Sales for Asia Pacific. In this capacity, he oversaw regional client strategy and managed relationships with leading hedge funds and institutional investors.

Earlier in his Goldman Sachs career, Mr. Manani led the firm’s Portfolio Transition Management business in Europe. He advised pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and institutional asset owners on large-scale portfolio transitions and related risk management strategies.

Mr. Manani began his career at MSCI, formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International and MSCI Barra, where he worked with buy-side and sell-side institutions on the application of quantitative portfolio risk modelling and performance attribution techniques.

Having lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, Mr. Manani brings a global perspective and deep knowledge of institutional markets, investment management and financing.