Neeraj Kumar

Neeraj Kumar is a managing director in Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory group, where he focuses on quantitative research and modeling in support of structured capital solutions on behalf of financial sponsors and investors.

Mr. Kumar brings over 16 years of experience in structured finance, quantitative analytics and enterprise-scale modeling platforms. Most recently, he served as senior vice president in Morningstar DBRS, where he led quantitative research and developed credit rating methodologies for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). He also contributed to modernizing the firm’s modeling infrastructure by transitioning legacy systems to Python and cloud-based platforms to support ratings, surveillance and scenario analysis.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kumar was part of BlackRock’s financial markets advisory and financial modeling group, where he built prepayment, default and severity models; integrated loan-level analytics into tranche cash flow frameworks; and developed stress-testing tools. Earlier, at American Express, he worked on credit risk and data science initiatives, including machine learning–based fraud detection, Basel capital modeling and Monte Carlo-based economic capital frameworks.

Mr. Kumar holds a postgraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management Mumbai (formerly NITIE) and a B.Tech in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra.