Tod is a Managing Directsor on the Investment Research team and has over 25 years of industry experience. He is actively involved throughout the investment process including sourcing, screening and evaluating private credit primary, secondary, co-investment and SMA investments. Tod also works with the Portfolio Advisory team and Aksia’s global institutional clients on portfolio strategy and construction and related investment advisory activities. Prior to joining Aksia in 2022, Tod was the Head of Product and Strategy at Industrial Transportation Equipment Management (“ITE”), where he assisted existing and prospective limited partners in underwriting and monitoring ITE’s niche transportation asset offerings and designed bespoke co-investment vehicles for some ITE’s largest clients. Before that, he led Private Credit manager research and selection globally at Cambridge Associates, working with advisory clients in launching, developing and monitoring private credit programs. In addition, he chaired the firm’s Credit Investment Committee. Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, Tod worked at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and LBC Credit Partners (acquired by CIFC), a credit opportunities/direct lending fund where he led underwriting for almost a decade and sat on the firm’s Investment Committee. Tod started his career at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Tod graduated from Pomona College with a BA in Government and holds a MALD in Development Economics from The Fletcher School, Tufts University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia Business School. He is a CFA charterholder.