Pulkit Sharma, CFA, CAIA, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Alternatives Investment Strategy and Solutions business, which is part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s global alternatives division. Pulkit is responsible for portfolio design and management of multi-alternatives investment solutions that span global real assets such as private real estate, infrastructure, transport, and alternative credit, private equity, liquid alternatives. In his role, he works with the firms investment, solutions, and research personnel and global investors such as insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, and wealth managers to build and manage customized private markets portfolio solutions to help deliver on investor objectives. Pulkit co-founded the private real assets portfolio strategy and solutions business for the firm’s institutional clients. Pulkit serves on the firm’s Alternatives Solutions Investment Committee, Asset Management Innovation Steering Group, Alternatives Solutions and Client Leadership Teams, and Long-term Capital Market Assumptions Editorial team. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2011, he has worked in the Middle East and Asia in real estate development. Pulkit is a member of the Global Exchange Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. Pulkit holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and an M.S. in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.