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Tailored Credit Solutions

Alphite Capital is a specialty finance company, with a tech-forward approach, focused on middle-market and broadly syndicated bank loans. Alphite’s assets are sourced directly and through partnerships with other originators. Anthelion Capital Partners LLC acts as the Investment Manager of Alphite’s assets.

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Leadership Team

  • Vusal Najafov

    Vusal Najafov

    CO-FOUNDER

    Vusal is the co-Founder of Anthelion Capital and oversees strategy, investment, portfolio construction, and AI-native software platform. He has 24 years of experience investing across sectors as well as developing investing-focused data science software platforms. Prior to Anthelion, Vusal worked at Goldman Sachs, Highbridge, Millenium and Indus Capital. He earned a BBA with honors in finance from Texas Tech University and MBA with honors from the Wharton School.

    Vusal co-led design and development of proprietary AI-native software platform for private credit and equity markets.

  • Ewa Kozicz

    Ewa Kozicz

    CO-FOUNDER

    Ewa is a co-Founder of Anthelion Capital and oversees strategy, investment selection and portfolio construction for the firm. Ewa has 26 years of investment experience across sectors and asset classes, including significant expertise in agriculture, industrials, and financial services. Prior to Anthelion, Ewa worked at BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. She has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics and Math from Columbia College.

  • Karsten Berlage

    Karsten Berlage

    CEO

    Karsten is the CEO of Alphite Capital. He has 25 years of experience in credit, structured finance, securitization, insurance structuring, capital raising, and building and managing innovative and complex businesses. He completed over $10 billion of well-performing and award-winning securitizations, managed a multibillion structured credit portfolio, and built global, market-leading businesses for major financial institutions.

  • Michelle Barone

    Michelle Barone

    COO

    Michelleis a seasoned Chief Operating Officer in the asset management space. She has over 24 years of experience, including 18 years as a COO at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners with a focus on launching and operating new funds in the asset management space. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University.