“Resilience and persistence are essential in the investment management industry. Becoming successful is often a marathon and not a sprint. Early in my career, I did not fully appreciate how much relationships and resilience compound over time.”
Success in asset-based lending requires qualities like adaptability and strong leadership skills, but what will ultimately ensure stellar performance for firms both big and small is having a team led by bridge-builders like Angela Kay. Whether navigating internal discussions or conversations with BasePoint partners, Kay looks beyond her firm’s immediate needs to consider what will benefit the broader collective and strengthen long-term, interdependent relationships.
Before assuming her current role at BasePoint, Kay built experience as an investment analyst and capital raiser, including a 14-year tenure at ICE Canyon, where she helped the firm grow to $4.25 billion in peak assets. After joining BasePoint in 2020, Kay formed BasePoint Advisors and applied her relationship-first approach to help evolve the company from a top-tier loan originator into a top-tier asset manager. Today, BasePoint Advisors represents $3.1 billion of BasePoint’s $6.8 billion in outstanding assets.
Kay has long viewed specialty finance client service as a balancing act, one that requires protecting the interests of institutional partners while fostering productive, enduring relationships. She believes transparency and the consistent delivery of risk-adjusted returns over a multi-year holding period are fundamental to building lasting trust between a lending platform and its clients.
That commitment to earning credibility client by client was instrumental in building BasePoint’s asset management business. Kay faced not only the operational challenge of creating an investment advisory group from the ground up and determining how best to allocate organizational resources, but also the responsibility of earning the trust of both existing and prospective BasePoint clients. As a result of her unwavering passion for client service and comprehensive expertise in specialty finance, BasePoint Advisors offers sophisticated lending solutions to global clients worldwide.
