Anastasia Titarchuk
Chief Investment Officer
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Anastasia Titarchuk is the Chief Investment Officer for the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Under the direction of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Ms. Titarchuk is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategies to ensure that the Fund remains one of the best-funded and best-managed public pension plans in the country. The Fund holds assets in trust for more than one million State and local government employees and pensioners.

Prior to Ms. Titarchuk’s appointment in August 2019, she had been Deputy CIO since February 2015. She joined the Fund in 2011. She started her career on Wall Street in 1998, working in a variety of leadership roles at Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan. Ms. Titarchuk has an extensive background in derivatives. Her experience spans both liquid and structured products across a variety of markets including equities and emerging markets.

Ms. Titarchuk was named as a 2015 Hedge Fund Rising Star by Institutional Investor Magazine. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics.

Navyug Patel
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
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Navyug (Nav) Patel is the Deputy CIO of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF). He joined CRF in June 2015 as a Senior Investment Officer with the Opportunistic/ARS portfolio. Before becoming Deputy CIO, he was the Director of the Credit portfolio. Previously Nav spent over a decade as an equity derivative sales trader at various investment banks including JP Morgan, Barclays, and Jefferies. Nav holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Brown University and an Undergraduate degree in Physics from University of Florida.