As Managing Partner and President of Simran Capital, Mesh conceptualized and trademarked the firm’s Pre-event Driven Activist Strategy. Mesh oversees the strict adherence of this strategy to the firm’s overall investment philosophy.

Mesh has approximately 12 years of industry experience having started his career as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers and JP Morgan Chase. He evaluated and underwrote numerous deals worldwide ranging from M&A transactions to bond & equity origination to corporate restructuring. In 2001, Mesh introduced an innovative approach to portfolio management by incorporating valuation and recovery analysis into traditional high yield research. As a Managing Director & Partner for Advest, Inc. and RW Pressprich & Co., Mesh became one of the industry’s leading experts with an estimated trading volume of more than $1 billion per year.

Mesh’s innovative approach to credit analysis and exceptional understanding of bond market dynamics has earned him respect in the industry on both the buy and sell side, as well as with underwriters, issuers, and institutional investors both locally in the U.S. and internationally. As a result, Mesh has a close working relationship with over 200 hedge funds internationally. Mesh was recently given the distinction of being recognized as one of the top 30 traders in the business (Trader Monthly Magazine Aug/Sept 2005) and one of the most influential faces in the high yield market (JP Morgan).

Mesh graduated from the Edgar Bronfman School of Business at McGill University in Montreal, Canada with the top scholarship in the program.

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As Managing Director & Senior Portfolio Manager, Shawn is responsible leading Simran’s fixed income department and managing institutional large cap portfolios. Shawn has over 13 years of industry experience having started his career at Citigroup as a financial analyst, worked for Cogent Communications where he worked as a Senior Manager in a corporate development role evaluating M&A and financing transactions, and at Verizon in their pension investment group.

Shawn joined Simran after working at Highland Capital Management, LP since 2004 as a Portfolio Manager covering the Cable, Media, and Communications sectors and overseeing $6 billion of domestic and international high yield bonds, leveraged loans, equities, and derivatives. At Highland, Shawn originated and structured several leveraged corporate transactions, led corporate restructurings for various firms, and co-established a European fund plat- form.

Shawn received his MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a BBA in Finance from Texas Christian University.

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In his role as Chief Financial and Compliance Officer of Simran Capital Management, Kash is responsible for all of the financial and compliance functions of the firm. In addition, he leads the investor reporting, accounting, legal and human resources functions. Kash has over 16 years of leadership experience with both private and public companies ranging in size from $250 million in annual revenue to over $15 billion.

Kash has extensive experience in areas of financial and SEC reporting, audit, accounting processes and controls (Sarbanes-Oxley), enhancements to corporate systems and management reporting, corporate taxes, legal reviews and other corporate development transactions, such as acquisitions and IPOs. 

Prior to joining Simran Capital, Kash was Vice President of Investment accounting of a Dallas-based international private equity firm with over $25 billion of assets under management. Prior to this, Kash was Senior Vice President of Finance at a Chicago-based publicly-traded international real estate and money management company.

Kash began his career in public accounting and was an engagement manager with a big 4 accounting firm. Kash obtained his Graduate Diploma in Accounting from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and is also a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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In his role as Director, Corporate Development, John oversees Simran’s business development, marketing and client relationships.  John has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently as a Senior Vice President at LM Capital Group, a $3.5 billion asset management firm where he was responsible for marketing to corporate pension funds, public retirement systems, foundations, endowments and the investment consulting community. 

Prior to LM, John was Director of Marketing and Client Services at The Patterson Capital Corporation.  John began his career at UBS/Paine Webber where, during his 16-year tenure, he was a Branch Manager and member of the firm’s President’s Council. 

John has successfully completed the Series 3, 7, 10 and 63 examinations.  He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, with a BBA in Finance.

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