Anant Kumar

Anant Kumar is a managing director at Benefit Street Partners, based out of the West Palm Beach, Florida office. His focus is on liquid, performing credits in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. Mr. Kumar has portfolio manager responsibilities for the firm's Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), as well as multiple institutional high yield bond accounts.

Prior to joining BSP in 2015, Mr. Kumar worked as an investment banker in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard Freres in New York, and prior to that, he worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Kumar holds a bachelor of engineering degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University in India, a master of science from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.