Octus for Blackstone
Octus for Blackstone Group
Maximize Investment. Generate Superior Returns.
Blackstone, the global leader in alternative asset management, demands unparalleled market intelligence. Octus provides the critical data, advanced analytics and workflow tools your teams need to maintain their competitive edge across all investment strategies.
Advance your multi-strategy approach with intelligence built for impact
Accelerate Deal Flow
Leverage Octus's comprehensive data and analytics to identify opportunities faster and execute with precision. Our tools support your pursuit of high-conviction investing across liquid and private markets.
Optimize Portfolio Performance
Access advanced analytics and proprietary content to enhance surveillance and inform portfolio construction. Leverage Octus’ workflow tools to manage deal documents, optimize trade orders and manage credit portfolios.
Streamline Your Operational Workflow
Equip your investment professionals with rapid access to critical financial, covenant and market data. Octus integrates seamlessly into your processes, fostering efficiency and collaboration across your global teams.
Precision tools for success in global multi-strategy credit investments
Navigate the dynamic credit landscape with Octus. From streamlined portfolio management to expert-curated insights, Blackstone gains the edge to scale multi-strategy credit investments globally and effectively.
Expose risks before they reach your tranches
Assess manager overlap, tail risks and CLO structure health with powerful analytics dashboards. Visualize exposures and spot weak links across vintages.
AI-powered deal analysis
Accelerate insight discovery from your private credit data. Query across your FinDox™ deal documents and Octus intel to access, analyze and act on critical credit data faster than ever.
Trusted by professionals
Founded in 2013, Octus, formerly Reorg, has grown to become the unrivaled source for credit intelligence, data, workflow tools and technology trusted by the most respected names in corporate credit.
40,000
Global users who rely on our expertise
100+
Countries represented by credit situations we cover
300+
Journalists and analysts, 70% more than our nearest competitor
Built by experts. Backed by data.
Our edge starts with experience— Built by journalists, legal and financial analysts who’ve seen every side of credit. Their expertise fuels the data, insights, and tools that keep you ahead of the market.
Asif Khaja
Head of Portfolio Analytics, Data
Asif Khaja
Head of Portfolio Analytics, Data
Asif has worked in the leveraged finance industry for 16 years in various roles on the buyside, sellside, and as an entrepreneur. Prior to joining Octus in 2024, Asif was CEO/Co-Founder of LoansIntel, a fundamental data provider for leveraged loan issuers in the U.S. Prior to LoansIntel, Asif worked at Investcorp Credit Management, a multibillion dollar credit/CLO manager. He started his career at J.P. Morgan in the credit space. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from The College of New Jersey, holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a CFA charterholder.
Ben Kovacka
Head of Private Company Analysis and Global Analytics
Ben Kovacka
Head of Private Company Analysis and Global Analytics
Ben Kovacka drives financial research, leads revenue growth, and oversees global data editorialization efforts to deliver impactful insights from proprietary datasets. With over a decade of experience in scaling data-driven research products, Ben previously led Octus’s Fundamentals division and managed the EMEA financial analysts team. His prior tenure at Citi further established his expertise in financial analysis and data strategy, making him an invaluable leader in optimizing Octus’s private company research and delivering differentiated value to clients.
Chris Dammers
Deputy Editor, CLOs
Chris Dammers
Deputy Editor, CLOs
Chris brings 20+ years of experience covering securitization markets. He previously led European structured finance coverage at Debtwire and reported at EuroWeek and Structured Finance International.
Giulia Rusconi
Head of Fundamentals Strategy & Operations
Giulia Rusconi
Head of Fundamentals Strategy & Operations
Giulia Rusconi is the Head of Strategy & Operations in Fundamentals responsible for driving alignment and operational excellence to the Fundamentals product and enhancing collaboration across global data teams. She partners closely with the Head of Fundamentals and other leaders at Octus to streamline execution, optimize planning, and contribute to revenue generation and new product development. Before this role, Giulia was the Head of EMEA Credit Research, overseeing high yield performing and distressed credit coverage. Led a team of nine analysts, established best practices, ensuring high analytical standards in a fast-paced, client-facing environment and drove collaboration across editorial and commercial teams. Giulia brings almost a decade of experience in credit research having worked as a rating analyst at S&P Global Ratings and in debt origination at SMBC before joining Octus.
Hugh Minch
Editor, CLOs
Hugh Minch
Editor, CLOs
Hugh has 8+ years of experience covering CLOs and leveraged finance. He leads the Octus CLO news coverage and regularly features in panels, webinars, and podcasts. Before Octus, he reported on the global CLO market at Creditflux.
Kishore Iyer, Ph.D
VP of AI Engineering and Application Development
Kishore Iyer, Ph.D
VP of AI Engineering and Application Development
Kishore serves as VP of AI Engineering and Application Development at Octus (formerly Reorg), where he leads multiple teams developing the flagship CreditAI generative AI product. With over 15 years of engineering leadership experience spanning Fortune 500 companies, startups, research institutions, and academia, he brings deep technical expertise across AI/ML, media processing, networking, cloud computing, and software development.. Known for his collaborative leadership style, Kishore excels at building and managing diverse, cross-functional teams. His approach combines data-driven decision-making with strategic thinking, while fostering a culture of openness and accountability. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University and has authored multiple patents and peer-reviewed publications across various technical domains.
Shweta Rao
Global Head of Covenant Research & Analytics
Shweta Rao
Global Head of Covenant Research & Analytics
Shweta Rao is the Global Head of Covenant Research & Analytics at Octus, where she leads legal research, shapes data strategy, drives revenue growth, and champions product innovation across leveraged finance and private credit. A former Clifford Chance attorney, she brings over 20 years of experience at the nexus of law, data and technology. At Octus, Shweta steers the firm’s global covenants offering – overseeing research, editorial, and data analytics teams across the U.S., EMEA and India – to deliver high impact insights that power client workflows and inform credit decisions. She plays a central role in shaping how Octus transforms complex legal documents into actionable intelligence, partnering closely across the technology, sales and product teams to scale differentiated solutions across credit markets.
Sreekanth Mallikarjun
Chief Scientist & Head of AI Innovation
Sree leads AI innovation at Octus, driving breakthroughs in generative AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and statistics. His work transforms how the vast credit datasets at Octus are accessed, delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy to both employees and subscribers. With a doctorate in technology and innovation, Sree’s expertise elevates Octus’ data capabilities. As an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and affiliated NLP expert for CFA Institute, he continues to shape the future of AI while ensuring Octus remains at the forefront of financial intelligence.
In his free time, Sree has already explored 37 of the 65 U.S. National Parks and is ambitiously working toward his goal of visiting them all. Sree also serves as a Digital Advisory Board member for one of the Permira’s portfolio companies.
Tejs Broberg
Global Head of Data
Tejs drives Octus’ data strategy with a singular focus: delivering the most innovative insights in the credit market. A former Olympian and the founder of LendAmend and FinDox—acquired by Octus in 2022—Tejs brings an entrepreneurial spirit and competitive edge to everything he does. His experience as a credit investor at Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, Columbia Management and Foothill Capital Alternative Investments gives him the deep industry knowledge that informs his focus on data solutions and workflows that matter to our clients. At Octus, Tejs constantly pushes the boundaries of what data can do, ensuring the company stays ahead of industry standards and delivers exactly what subscribers need to stay competitive.
Outside of work, Tejs calls Manhattan Beach home where he enjoys tennis, skiing, and traveling to see friends and family in Denmark. A father of three, he’s passionate about supporting up-and-coming entrepreneurs, catching Clippers games, attending concerts, and enjoying LA nightlife.
Tim Dias
Head of Fundamentals
Tim Dias is the Head of Fundamentals at Octus, and has 20+ years of leverage finance market experience, including buy side analyst roles at Barings and portfolio management roles at Newfleet Asset Management. Previously, he was Head of Research at Loansintel, where he developed rigorous research frameworks and quality control processes, ultimately leading to its acquisition by Octus (Formerly Reorg). Tim has experience in absolute return, relative return and leverage loan investing through CLO frameworks, ideally positioning him to understand client needs and workflows.
Jack Lester-Pearson
VP – Private Credit & Deal Origination
Power Blackstone’s Multi-Strategy Investment with Octus
Elevate performance and gain superior, risk-controlled insights with Octus’s specialized credit intelligence.