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Pavlin Kumchev

Managing Director / Research

Mr. Kumchev is a Managing Director in Research, covering the healthcare and industrials sectors in the Brigade London office. Prior to joining Brigade in 2019, Mr. Kumchev worked at Carlyle’s distressed debt and special situations fund, focusing on liquid and illiquid investments across the capital structure of corporates in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Carlyle, he worked at Blackstone's Restructuring and Reorganization Group in London. Mr. Kumchev started his career as an Analyst in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group of Morgan Stanley in New York and later served as an Associate at Behrman Capital, a middle-market private equity fund based in New York, where he focused on investments in the Healthcare and Industrial sectors. Throughout his investment career, Mr. Kumchev has served on a number of creditors’ committees as well as on the board of a number of private and publicly listed companies. Mr. Kumchev earned his B.A. in Mathematical Economics and minor in German, summa cum laude, from Colgate University in the U.S. and has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD in France and Singapore.