Wei Jin

Wei Jin is a portfolio manager at Crescent Sky Capital and is on the firm’s investment committee. Dr. Jin is also responsible for developing and maintaining all of Crescent Sky’s analytical infrastructure.

​Prior to joining Crescent Sky, Dr. Jin was a trader at Panning Capital Management, responsible for trading and managing Panning’s structured products portfolio. At Panning, Wei also focused on analyzing specialty finance companies across the capital structure. Prior to Panning, Dr. Jin was an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase responsible for trading and managing a portion of the bank’s multi billion dollar structured products portfolio.

​Dr. Jin was one of the initial members at Tilden Park Management, where he built all of the models and analytical infrastructure for the fund launch. At Tilden Park, Wei also worked on investment strategy and portfolio management. Dr. Jin began his career at Lehman Brothers in research, covering commercial real estate and CMBS.

​Dr. Jin received a PHD in Statistics and a Master of Science in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University. Wei also holds a Bachelor of Science in Probability and Statistics from Beijing University in China.

​Wei holds many honors and awards in Mathematics including, two time winner Zehan Jiang Scholarship, Silver Medalist in the 13th China Mathematical Contest and the Gold Medal in the Chinese National Mathematical Contest 1997.

​Dr. Jin is the married father of two children. In his spare time Wei enjoys traveling around the world and landscape photography.