Atish Nigam is a Senior Managing Director and serves as Chief Investment Officer of BAAM’s Special Situations investing business.

Before joining Blackstone in 2021, Mr. Nigam spent a decade at Appaloosa Management, where he invested opportunistically across a diverse set of asset classes, including liquid equities and credit, private equities, distressed debt and other special situations. Prior to Appaloosa, Mr. Nigam worked at SAC Capital, FTV Capital and McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Nigam received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Nigam is also a CFA® charterholder.