Pratik Desai

Senior Managing Director, Opportunistic Credit, Man Group

Pratik Desai is a senior managing director at Man Group, responsible for managing the firm’s opportunistic credit strategy.

He joined Man Group in 2025 as part of the firm’s acquisition of Bardin Hill, where he served as served as a portfolio manager of the firm’s opportunistic credit and event-driven strategies. In 2005, he joined Halcyon Asset Management, working closely alongside Jason Dillow for more than two decades. Prior to this, Pratik was an investment banker working on capital markets transactions at J.P. Morgan Chase.

Pratik holds a B.S. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.