Bio

Sundeep Rana joined Castle Creek® in 2011. Mr. Rana sits on the Investment Committee for the Castle Creek funds and is a board member of Central Payments LLC, CF Bankshares Inc., and CFBank, N.A. Additionally, Mr. Rana manages the firm’s relationships with its investors and oversees the firm’s capital markets, treasury, and operating activities. He also leads Castle Creek’s minority scholarship program created to enhance access in community banking for underrepresented individuals. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Senior Vice President with PCG Asset Management, LLC (“PCG”) where he led the identification, analysis, due diligence and selection of private equity investments, including certain investments that involved the purchase of distressed banks and thrifts from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. While at PCG, Mr. Rana also managed institutional relationships with multi-billion dollar public pension systems, working with both investment staff and Boards of Trustees on issues pertaining to private equity investment selection and portfolio construction. Mr. Rana began his career as an analyst with Goldman Sachs where he focused on company liquidity, capital, and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Mr. Rana holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Joseph Wharton Scholar and graduated summa cum laude.