Anoop Dhakad, CFA, is a partner of the firm and Head of Marketing for MKP Capital. Mr. Dhakad has more than 10 years of hedge fund manager due diligence experience, having worked at several funds of hedge funds during his career. From 2002 until joining MKP in June 2007, Mr. Dhakad was a Senior Vice President and head of manager due diligence at Lehman Brothers, where he was a founding member of their fund of hedge funds business. Prior to Lehman, Mr. Dhakad was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in ING Furman Selz Asset Management’s fund of hedge funds group during 2001. Between 1993 and 2000, Mr. Dhakad worked at JPMorgan, where he spent the bulk of his time in the investment management division, including the hedge fund advisory group which he joined in 1997.
Mr. Dhakad has a BS in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (1993) and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. A member of The Way to Work Board, he joined the Fedcap Board in 2011.