Meena Pursnani

Managing Director, Sector Lead – Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), Fixed Income

Meena Pursnani is the Sector Lead for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) within structured products for MetLife Investment Management (MIM) Public Fixed Income. 

Meena has been with MIM since 2014 and is the team leader for CMBS Credit. Prior to joining MIM, Meena was a portfolio manager and credit research analyst at The Capital Group (American Funds) for five years where her investment responsibilities included CMBS and European Covered bonds. Prior to this role, Meena was a Managing Director at DWS for five years, where she was head of structured research and senior CMBS analyst. Before joining DWS, Meena was a Vice President at Moody’s Investors Service specializing in CMBS. Prior to joining Moody’s, Meena was with UBS and BNY Mellon where she held several roles, within commercial real estate, including loan origination and loan workouts. 

Meena earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and a B.A. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.  Meena served a three year term on Commercial Real Estate Finance Council’s (CREFC) Investment Grade Bondholders Forum as the Chair Elect (June 2020-June 2021), Chairperson (June 2021-June 2022), and Past -Chair (June 2022-June 2023).