Thomas (TJ) Mitta is a Managing Director in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in San Francisco. Mr. Mitta is focused on the research and management of Corporate Bond Strategies’ (BCBS) portfolios.

Prior to Blackstone’s acquisition of DCI in 2020, Mr. Mitta focused on research and management of systematic credit portfolios at DCI. Before joining DCI, Mr. Mitta was responsible for alpha research and portfolio management for long-short systematic investment strategies at BlackRock. Before BlackRock, Mr. Mitta was a Quantitative Researcher at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on corporate bond strategies and capital structure arbitrage models. Mr. Mitta started his career in the POINT group in Fixed Income at Barclays Capital.

Mr. Mitta received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), M.S. degrees in Finance, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics from Princeton, Cornell, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively, as well as a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.