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Tailored Credit Solutions

About Us

Alphite Capital is a specialty finance company, with a tech-forward approach, focused on middle-market and broadly syndicated bank loans. Alphite’s assets are sourced directly and through partnerships with other originators. Anthelion Capital Partners LLC acts as the Investment Manager of Alphite’s assets.

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Alphite / Anthelion Leadership Team

Vusal Najafov

  • Mr. Najafov is a co-Founder of Anthelion Capital and oversees strategy, investment selection, portfolio construction, and AI-native software platform development. He has twenty-four years of experience investing across sectors and asset classes as well as developing investing-focused data science software platforms.

    At Anthelion, Mr. Najafov co-led design and development of proprietary AI-native software platform for private credit and equity markets.

Ewa Kozicz

  • Ms. Kozicz is a co-Founder of Anthelion Capital and oversees strategy, investment selection and portfolio construction for the firm with over 25 years of investment experience across sectors and asset classes, including significant expertise in agriculture, industrials, and financial services.

Karsten Berlage

  • Mr. Berlage is the CEO of Alphite Capital. He has 25 years of experience in credit, structured finance, securitization, insurance structuring, capital raising, and building and managing innovative and complex businesses. He completed over $10 billion of well-performing and award-winning securitizations, managed a multibillion structured credit portfolio, and built global, market-leading businesses for major financial institutions.

Artem Mariychin

  • Mr. Mariychin is Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, and Head of Data Science for Anthelion Capital. He has over a decade of investment, operational, and data science experience across sectors and asset classes, including significant expertise in technology, energy, and consumer.

Michelle Barone

  • Mrs. Barone is a seasoned Chief Operating Officer in the asset management space with a focus on launching and operating new funds across credit and equities in both public and private markets. She has over 22 years of experience, including 16 years as a COO.