Rajat Babbar

Rajat Babbar is a Partner at Westfield Capital Management and serves as Head of Portfolio Strategy/Risk Management. Westfield says he is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and brings experience in quantitative research, portfolio construction, and multi-asset risk oversight.

Babbar joined Westfield in 2014. Before Westfield, he spent 2009–2014 as a Partner and Analyst at Copper Rock Capital Partners. Earlier, he was a founding partner and portfolio manager at Ocean State Asset Management and held investment roles at New England Asset Management and New England Trust. He began his career at SEI Investments as a Senior Investment Analyst from 1998–2001.

He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, earned in 1998, and a B.E. from Delhi College of Engineering, earned in 1995. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

• Westfield’s stated philosophy is “identifying under-appreciated growth at reasonable valuations.”
• The firm says its process looks for durable competitive advantages, under-appreciated earnings growth, asymmetrical risk/reward, and compelling valuation.
• Westfield builds portfolios through a bottom-up, research-led process that includes cross-sector collaboration, formal investment review, portfolio construction, and risk management.
• Babbar’s role is portfolio strategy and risk management rather than direct venture sourcing; available public sources do not verify a personal angel-investing thesis, check size, or seed-stage portfolio.
• Westfield’s public-equity strategies span the U.S. market-cap spectrum, including Small Cap, Small/Mid Cap, Mid Cap, Large Cap, All Cap, and Select Growth.