Shai is the Chief Financial Officer of Churchill, as well as Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp. (NYSE: NCDL) and Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund (PCAP), the firm’s publicly registered business development companies. He is responsible for overseeing Churchill’s finance, business systems, operations, human resources and administration groups. Shai is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Senior Lending Investment Committee, Valuation Committee and Product Committee.

Previously, as Managing Director and Head of Senior Leveraged Lending for Churchill’s parent company, Nuveen, Shai was responsible for initiating Nuveen’s investment program in middle market senior loans and was directly involved in the launch of Churchill Asset Management as an affiliate in 2015, including the development of its infrastructure and operations. Shai joined Nuveen in 2005 and has spent his entire career in the private debt markets, with a significant amount of time spent in Nuveen’s workout and restructuring department.

Shai graduated with a B.B.A. from Baruch College, CUNY. He is a CFA charterholder.