KBRA Appoints Gopal Narsimhamurthy as Global Head of Fund Ratings
May 16 2024 - 3:33PM
Business Wire
KBRA announces the appointment of Gopal Narsimhamurthy as Global
Head of Fund Ratings. This appointment follows the resignation of
Pramit Sheth who, after more than 12 years of service, will be
leaving to pursue other opportunities.
Pramit joined KBRA in 2011 during the earliest days of the firm
as a senior member of the KBRA CMBS ratings team. He was
instrumental in developing various models and methodologies that
produced the firm’s first CMBS ratings which, along with his work
as senior credit analyst, provided a foundation for KBRA’s future.
Pramit transitioned to lead the Funds Group in 2019, where he was
instrumental in successfully building this team during a period of
rapid growth at KBRA and in the private funds market.
Gopal Narsimhamurthy, currently a Managing Director in the Funds
Group at KBRA, will succeed Pramit as Global Head of Fund Ratings.
He will lead a strong 25-person global Funds team and will work
closely with Tom Speller, the Head of European Fund Ratings.
Gopal has been at KBRA since 2014 and has worked across a number
of analytical areas including ABS, public finance, and project
finance. He was based in Dublin, Ireland, for two years to provide
analytical coverage for European structured finance transactions
and to support KBRA’s growth initiatives across the region.
Previous to KBRA, he was an associate analyst at Moody’s Investors
Service, where he specialized in higher education and health care
credit analysis.
“We’re extremely excited for the future of the team under
Gopal’s leadership,” said William Cox, the Global Head of
Corporate, Financial, and Government Ratings at KBRA. “He has
played a critical role alongside Pramit in expanding our analytical
expertise and ratings coverage within the private funds space. And
we will greatly miss Pramit, who led the Funds Group so
successfully during this incredible time of growth in the industry.
We wish him well in his future endeavors.”
About KBRA
KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the
U.S., the EU, and the UK, and is designated to provide structured
finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors
for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.
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