Founder and Chief Investment Officer
SVPGlobal
Victor Khosla is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of SVPGlobal — an industry leading global private credit investment firm with roots in credit, distressed and private equity investing. SVPGlobal manages $18+ billion on behalf of some of the most significant pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and wealth management platforms in the world. The firm has 140 employees and offices in Greenwich, CT, London and Tokyo.
Mr. Khosla established SVPGlobal in 2001 and has since led the firm’s transformation from distressed debt and event trading to global credit investing, focused on event-driven, special situations, private equity and financing opportunities. More recently, Mr. Khosla has very profitably expanded the firm from core strength in the corporate sector to some specialty sectors including infrastructure, aviation, real estate and power generation. He was one of the first distressed investors to establish a European presence, opening the firm’s London office in 2004, which has since been named Best European Distressed Loan Investor by Global Capital for six consecutive years (2014-2019).
Mr. Khosla has a distinguished 30+ year track record in distressed and private equity investing. He has built a highly differentiated firm with exceptional talent across sourcing, investing and operational improvement, leading to a private equity portfolio of 13 majority-controlled businesses with over 25,000 employees. Over his career, Mr. Khosla built and managed one of the top distressed proprietary trading businesses at Merrill Lynch, served as President of Cerberus Capital and ran MooreSVP, a JV with Moore Capital.
Mr. Khosla is a frequent speaker on the capital markets and private credit investing, and a member of the Management Council at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as on the board of Pratham USA, one of the largest non-governmental education organizations in India.
Reporter
CNBC
Leslie Picker joined CNBC in February 2017 as a reporter covering hedge funds, private equity and asset management. She is based at CNBC Global Headquarters, and her reporting appears on television and CNBC’s digital platforms.
Picker has interviewed some of the most prominent investors on CNBC, including Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, Omega Advisors’ Leon Cooperman and Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman. Her investigation into Puerto Rico’s debt crisis won a Society for Advanced Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) award and was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award in 2018.
Previously, Picker was a reporter at The New York Times where she covered deals. Her beat encompassed mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, venture capital, private equity, restructuring and shareholder activism. Prior to The New York Times, Picker was a reporter at Bloomberg News where she reported on initial public offerings. There, she also contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio. Prior to becoming a reporter, Picker was a segment producer for Bloomberg Television. She began her career as a booker at Fox Business Network.
Picker graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science. She also earned a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, graduating with honors, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, with a concentration in finance.
