Scott Baskind is Head of Global Private Credit and Chief Investment Officer of Invesco’s Global Private Credit platform, which includes broadly syndicated loans, collateralized loan obligations, direct lending, distressed credit, and opportunistic credit. He is the head of the investment committees across the platform and serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager for several funds. Mr. Baskind joined Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc. in 1999 as a credit analyst and has taken on progressively more senior roles, including his current position in 2014. During his tenure at Invesco, he has served as a portfolio manager, head of loan trading, and co-CIO. Mr. Baskind began his career as a financial analyst at the Bureau of Fiscal Management, City of New York. His senior loan career dates back to the mid-1990s as a commercial lending analyst with NatWest Markets and later as an associate in the leveraged finance and private equity group of Gleacher NatWest. Mr. Baskind earned a BS degree in business administration, with majors in finance and management information systems, from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He currently serves as a vice chairman and treasurer for the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA).