Rajay Bagaria

Mr. Rajay P.
Bagaria is a President & Chief Investment Officer at Wasserstein Management LP.
He is on the Board of Directors at Number Holdings, Inc. Mr. Bagaria began his career in the leveraged finance market in 1999.
Before becoming President and Chief Investment Officer of Wasserstein Debt Opportunities Management, LP, in 2013, he was a Partner and Investment Committee member of Apollo Investment Management (“Apollo”), the investment manager of Apollo Investment Corporation (“AIC”), a publicly traded business development company.
Mr. Bagaria joined Apollo as a Principal in June 2004, two months after AIC held its initial public offering, and later was promoted to Partner.
At Apollo, he invested in several asset classes including senior debt, high yield bonds, mezzanine finance and equity.
Mr. Bagaria also held responsibilities related to secondary trading, investment team development, portfolio company work-outs and the development of Apollo’s energy lending and aviation investment platforms.
He was a board director of LVI Services, Inc., Generation Brands and Playpower, Inc. He received his undergraduate degree from New York University.