New York-based investment firm Hunter Point Capital has added former executives from Carlyle and Credit Suisse Asset Management to its Asia business.
Hunter Point Capital (HPC) has appointed SD Chu as managing director, Singapore and Akira Takahashias senior advisor, Japan, according to a statement.
Chu has over 30 years of experience in fundraising at firms like Carlyle, where he was most recently a senior relationship manager working with Korean institutional investors. Takahashi has more than four decades of experience and previously built and managed Credit Suisse Asset Management in Japan for 20 years.
Asia Expansion
Moving forward, HPC will continue expanding its team in Asia to better serve general partners with a strategic need for partnership and strengthen relationships in the region.
«The demand for private capital solutions has gone global and we recognize that Asia is an important and growing region where on-the-ground knowledge of market dynamics is paramount,» said Avi Kalichstein, CEO and co-founder of HPC.
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, HPC is an independent investment firm seeking to make minority investments in middle-market alternative asset managers. It invests in private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure groups.
