Vasu Srinivasan is the President and Co-Founder of USAF 6, LP, Co-Founder and COO of McDonald USAF LP as well as President & CEO of Thomas USAF Group, LLC. He is widely recognized and regarded as the Industry Guru on IO strips. He was inducted into the Secondary Market Hall of Fame in Dec 2017. He has served as the COO of the last four USAF Funds since 2002, including USAF II and USAF III. USAF Funds have attracted Institutional Investors like Aegon (Dutch Insurance Company), NMB (now ING), Stahl Bank, Roark Capital (Private Equity Fund) and D.B. Zwirn (hedge fund) over the years. These USAF Funds have established themselves as a leading secondary market player in the government guaranteed loan space over the last 32+ years and a dominant buyer of USDA B&I loans. McDonald USAF LP, with its 65 individual and institutional investors including mutual funds, was a dominant player in the 504 FMLP program in 2011 and 2012. Investors in McDonald USAF LP were recently bought out in 2019 by USG, LLC an entity owned by Michael R Thomas and Vasu Srinivasan. He handles all secondary market functions involving purchase and sale of government guaranteed loans as well as institutional and investor relations. He has addressed various secondary market related industry forums over the years. Prior to that he was the Chief Credit Officer and Chief Financial Officer of B&I Lending, the nations’ largest lender in the USDA B&I program. He is one of the few people in the industry with both secondary market as well as lending experience.
His 38 year banking career includes assignments around the globe including Asia, Middle East, Europe and the U.S. with stints as a bond trader, Vice Chairman of a company that was a correspondent for Lehman specializing in conduit loans for hotel properties, Vice Chairman and CFO of a residential mortgage company out of Los Angeles and Phoenix, Chief Credit Officer and Member of the Global Credit Committee of an Investment Bank with operations worldwide, Managing Director of a Trade Finance Company in New York and Manager of a retail banking operation. His experience also covers syndications in the global markets, middle market corporate lending in the US, operations and consumer banking in India, and correspondent banking as Chief Representative in the US for a Bahrain based Bank. He started his career with Citibank and was trained by them in Greece, Philippines and India.
He has represented investors on the Board of Hamilton Savings Bank in San Francisco, Summit National Bank, GA, a venture capital firm based in TN as well as residential mortgage companies. Mr Srinivasan is a Rotary Scholar with a M.S from Lehigh University, PA in Management Science/Industrial Engineering, Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering from Pune, India and an MBA from one of the Premier Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, India (IIMA) (set up originally in collaboration with Harvard Business School)