Manoj Kulkarni is a credit investor with ~20 years’ experience, including 14 years across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He has invested across the capital structure—special situations, distressed, high yield, investment grade, and convertibles—and traded bank loans, claims, bonds, and equity. He was a Portfolio Manager at Cithara Capital, leading high-yield and special-situations managed accounts with IG/convertible overlays; earlier roles include Cowell & Lee, Samena Capital, SJS Markets (team lead, event-driven/special sits), and Merrill Lynch (NY, High Yield: Chemicals & Packaging; TMT). He holds MS Finance & MS Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Applied Securities Analysis Program).