Mr. Marchand has been the credit portfolio manager for Knights of Columbus since joining the Order in March 2010. Prior to joining Knights of Columbus, he was Chief Investment Officer and Senior portfolio manager of Global Plus Investment Management. In 2001, Mr. Marchand founded the high-yield group at Aladdin Capital and was the senior portfolio manager responsible for managing nine CLO funds and three open-ended funds. From 1996‒2000, he co-managed 10 high-yield mutual funds and a CLO for Merrill Lynch Asset Management. From 1990‒1996, he was a credit analyst at Babson and worked on privates, corporates, mezzanine, and high-yield securities. Mr. Marchand received his MBA from Cornell University and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Hartford CFA Society.

In 1988, Mr. Gentile began his career in commodities on the trading floor of the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (“CSCE”) working as a phone clerk for B&J Commodities. Mr. Gentile became a member of the CSCE in 1993 and began trading proprietary funds as well as trading client accounts. Nicholas along with his partners formed MP Commodities, a Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa Futures and Options brokerage operation in 1998. His primary responsibility was running the daily operation of the futures trading floor. With the demise of open outcry at the CSCE Nicholas was offered an opportunity to join Atlantic Capital in January 2008 as a Partner and Co Manager of a Commodities only Discretionary Fund. His responsibilities included putting together trading strategies for the discretionary program as well as running all trading and execution for the firm. These strategies included Relative Value, Spreads and Directional Trades consisting mostly of futures contracts with some options. Mr. Gentile maintains extensive contacts in the physical Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa, Grain and Energy industries. His network is comprised of producers, consumers, traders, hedge funds as well as the three main commodity index firms. This in conjunction with his commodity knowledge makes him a cutting edge industry leader.

Mr. Deepak Devaraj joined Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors as President and Chief Investment Officer in 2026. Mr. Devaraj oversees the management of all mutual fund strategies and the Knights of Columbus’ General Account investment portfolio. In addition, Mr. Devaraj leads the KoCAA internal Investment Department, including fixed income and equity strategies, and provides oversight of KoCAA’s externally managed investment programs. Prior to joining KoCAA, Mr. Devaraj served as the Global Head of Electronic Trading at Oppenheimer & Co. He has held senior leadership roles in trading, portfolio construction and electronic market innovation, and has built technology-driven platforms used by institutional investors to improve transparency, pricing and execution.