George Batsakis

Mr. George Batsakis is Head of Alternative Debt at Hastings Funds Management Ltd.
and Chief Operating Officer at Hastings High Yield Fund.
Mr. Batsakis is presently head of Hastings' high yield securities business globally, including being the Chief Operating Officer of the Hastings Yield Fund.
He is also a member of the Hastings Executive Committee and the Hastings Investment Committee.
He has over 11 years of experience in global credit markets having originated, arranged and executed over $100 billion in debt financings predominantly in the infrastructure and telecommunications industry sectors across a number of jurisdictions.
He has been actively involved in the pioneering of the niche asset class of infrastructure debt financing.
Prior to joining Hastings, he acted in lead origination and structuring roles within the infrastructure team of Barclays Capital in London, the Royal Bank of Scotland (Global Markets team) in London and GE Capital (Commercial Finance).
Mr. Batsakis holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
He is PS146 certified for Generic Knowledge Managed Investments.