Nachiketa Rao

Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Speaker

Nachiketa Rao is an Executive Director in Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s XIG Vintage Strategies team focused on secondaries, based in London. He co-leads the non-traditional secondaries strategy and leads preferred equity and credit strategies for the Vintage Funds. Nachiketa joined Goldman Sachs initially in 2014 and re-joined after graduate school in 2015. Previously, he worked at JPMorgan, focused on whole business and asset portfolio acquisitions, investments in liquid and illiquid assets, and firm-wide strategic initiatives. Prior to that, he was an analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions and worked with the Investment Banking Division’s COO at Merrill Lynch. He received a BA from Swarthmore College, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he was a McCabe Memorial Fellow, and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Launder Institute, where he was a Leonard A. Lauder Fellow.