Justin Zhang
Founder

Mr. Zhang started his career in financial services industry as a sales trader in Global Equity & Commodity Derivative Department of BNP Paribas, he was responsible for tailored derivative solutions for various institutions. He worked with trading, structuring and legal teams to design, develop, structure, and manufacture innovative exotic derivatives products to meet clients' needs. He set up the secondary trading and client service team to help clients to unwind or add on outstanding positions, trained up and managed a team of 5 junior sales traders.


Then he joined UBS as an associate director in the structured solution distribution team. He was responsible for managing both discretionary and non-discretionary derivative portfolio for ultra-high net wealth clients across various asset classes. Tailor portfolio management for each individual client including portfolio construction, risk profiling and analytics, execution management, monitoring and portfolio rebalancing, mainly focused on equity and commodity derivatives.

After UBS, he joined Citigroup as a Vice President in private bank, responsible for investment advisory for all mainland Chinese ultra high net worth clients. He managed a team of investment specialists focusing on portfolio management, including portfolio construction, risk profiling and analytics, execution management, monitoring and portfolio rebalancing. Investment scope included but not limited to equity, credit, FX, commodities, rates, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equities and derivative products linked to above mentioned asset classes.

In 2013, Mr. Zhang founded Midas Capital Partners, a multi family office asset manager. He managed and led a team of dedicated investment professionals focusing on portfolio management for ultra-high net worth clients from mainland China. Managed clients overall investment portfolio including discretionary and non-discretionary accounts, AUM under management above 2 billion USD.






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Steven Wang
Managing Director

Mr. Wang has over 15 years of combined experience in financial management, capital market, corporate finance and structured financing area.


Before joining Cithara Investment, Mr. Wang worked as Chief Financial Officer and other Senior Executive roles for HKSE Main Board listed companies, whereby he possessed abundant experience, knowledge and resources in the area of financial management, capital market and corporate strategic development.
Before working at listed corporation, Mr. Wang worked in the Investment Banking arm of several well-known international financial services firms including Standard Chartered Bank, Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse. He has executed a large amount of  capital market and corporate finance transactions, ranging from IPO, equity offering, bond offering and M&A.
Besides, Mr. Wang also focused on structured financing, credits, project onshore-offshore financing etc. Mr. Wang obtained Bachelor's degree in Economics from Fudan University.



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Manoj Kulkarni
Portfolio Manager

Mr. Kulkarni has over 14 years of industry experience in the fields of finance and investment. Before joining Cithara Investment, he was a Director at Cowell & Lee Advisors, a HK based hedge fund where he helped oversee investments in event driven credit across Asia Pacific, Middle East and other EM regions. He has an extensive workout and restructuring experience and was involved in a number of complex distressed situations in the region.


Prior to Cowell & Lee, Mr. Kulkarni was a Vice President at Samena Capital in HK.  As a credit analyst he participated in new issues for the liquid strategy while focused on stressed credit in India and Middle East for the illiquid book.

Before Samena, Mr. Kulkarni led a team of research analysts covering under-covered / distressed credits in Asia Pacific and CEEMA regions at SJS Markets, in HK.  He initially had joined the Dubai office of the swiss brokerage with the coverage of the Middle East and Africa regions.

Mr. Kulkarni started his career at Merrill Lynch in New York as a sell-side credit research analyst covering chemicals, packaging and telecommunication sectors.   

He has MS in Finance from University of Wisconsin – Madison and was part of the Applied Security Analysis Program where is co-managed Investment Grade Fixed Income Portfolio.



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