Sumit Handa

Chief Investment Officer, Arax

Sumit Handa is the Chief Investment Officer of Arax Investment Partners.

At Arax, Sumit is responsible for the day-to-day investment activities. Prior to joining Arax, Sumit served as Managing Director/Partner, and Co-Head of the investment committee at Pennington Partners & Co., a multi-family office. Before Pennington, Sumit was the Head of Asset Allocation at Tiber Capital/Insight Investment/BNY Mellon, where he was responsible for structuring of transactions, and managing assets for global insurance & reinsurance companies. Prior to joining Insight Investment, Sumit served as the Chief Investment Officer for the City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions Retirement Plans and was also a portfolio manager primarily at DKR Capital.

Sumit is active in the community, and currently sits on the Board of Young Audiences.

Sumit holds a BS in Finance and a JD from St John’s University.