Portfolio Managers

Suresh Advani
Head of Trade Finance

Suresh is Lead Portfolio Manager for the trade finance funds for which GML acts as investment manager or investment adviser, and he serves as a director of a number of trade finance funds. Suresh is also GML’s designated Portfolio Manager for the Federated Project and Trade Finance Core Fund, for which the firm acts as investment sub-adviser. Prior to joining GML in 2005, Suresh spent twenty-four years working in investment banking, commercial banking and political and trade credit insurance with JP Morgan Chase, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Jardine Lloyd Thompson and Exporters Insurance Company Limited. Suresh read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Maxim Matveev, CFA
Portfolio Manager

Maxim is a Portfolio Manager for liquid, illiquid and special situations high yield emerging market investment strategies for funds managed or advised by GML.  Maxim joined GML in 2005, having had several roles since 1999 at Hoodless Brennan, Enron Credit and Absa Bank (Barclays Group). Maxim is a CFA charterholder, holds a BSc in Business Administration from Richmond College, London, an MSc from the ISMA Centre, University of Reading, and an EMBA (Distinction) from Cass Business School.

Patrick Bayliss
Portfolio Manager, Trade Finance

Patrick is a Portfolio Manager for trade finance funds managed or advised by GML.  Patrick started his career at Saudi International Bank, and went on to become a Fund Manager. Since then he had held positions at Deutsche Bank, running a book of emerging market trade finance assets, Bluecrest Capital Management as a Portfolio Manager, and LTP Trade, where he was a founder and director of LTPTrade.net.  Patrick holds a BSc in Economics from Bristol University.

Dalia Kay
Portfolio Manager, Trade Finance

Dalia joined GML in 1995 and co-led GML’s entry into the origination and distribution of trade finance transactions.  She is a Portfolio Manager for trade finance funds managed or advised by GML, and is active both in the secondary market, purchasing investments for trade finance funds, and also in in the primary market, working closely with a network of emerging market corporations and banks, structuring transactions and syndicating risk.  Since 2006 Dalia has been a board member of the International Forfaiting Association Northern European Regional Committee.  Dalia holds a BA in Economics and a Diploma in Law from the University of Geneva.

Robbie Gautam
Portfolio Manager, Trade Finance

Robbie is a Portfolio Manager for trade finance funds managed or advised by GML.  Before joining GML in 2009 Robbie worked for GE Capital in a risk management function in the U.S., India and the U.K. where he gained significant experience in structured finance, underwriting and portfolio management across American and European markets.  Prior to GE Capital he worked for Alstom India in Corporate Finance & Strategy. Robbie holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School, an MBA from Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany, and a BSc (Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Aligarh University, India.