Vik Khullar is a managing director at NFA and has primary portfolio management responsibilities for the Fund. Mr. Khullar has been a managing director at NFA since March 2014. Prior to joining NFA, Mr. Khullar was a portfolio manager at Citigroup, where he ran an equity portfolio of real estate related securities in Citi’s Alternative Investment Strategies division (October 2010-March 2014). Previously, Mr. Khullar managed equity portfolios at various long-short funds focused on real estate, financials and technology sectors, including at Four Points Partners (November 2009-September 2010) and Buccaneer Investments LLC (March 2005-October 2009). He also served as a senior equity research analyst at Wachovia (now Wells Fargo) and as an analyst at Lehman Brothers. His academic credentials include computational research at Yale University, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India (1990), an M.S. in biomedical engineering from Ohio State University (1993), and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University (2001).

Mr. Pike is the primary portfolio manager of the AR Capital Real Estate Income Fund since its inception. Prior to joining National Fund Advisors, Mr. Pike was the Director of Investment Research at AR Capital and Realty Capital Securities. His responsibilities included macro-economic, equity and commercial property research across the non-listed and publicly traded REIT sectors. He joined ARC/RCS in August 2011. Previously Mr. Pike was an equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Wachovia. Additionally, he was a member of the real estate investment banking team at Goldman Sachs, focused on the origination and distribution of CMBS securities. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He attended Rutgers College and Rutgers University.