Ensconce Capital Advisors

Deepak Khanna is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Ensconce Capital Advisors. Ensconce is a Healthcare/Biotech fund focused on the most innovative and promising companies in the sector. For the last 18 months, Mr. Khanna has been a Portfolio Manager and Head of Healthcare at Vulcan Capital, the family office of Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen where he was responsible for managing a $550M long/short portfolio investing across all sub-sectors of healthcare. Deepak generated 42.5% annualized return vs. 21.7% for S&P500 in 2017, and 25% vs. 4.8% for S&P500 for the first half of 2018. Prior to his role at Vulcan, Deepak was the Head of U.S. Large Cap Value Equities at Deutsche Bank Asset Management, where he grew the Large Cap Value fund to over $2.5 billion AUM. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Khanna was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Lord, Abbett & Co. where he led the Healthcare sector and was the lead Portfolio Manager of a $12 billion AUM Multi-Cap Strategy that was rated 4 stars by Morningstar, in addition to leading other strategies. Prior to that, Khanna was a Managing Director at Jennison Associates where he worked as a Health-care analyst. From 2000 to 2005, Khanna was a Health-care analyst at Lord, Abbett & Co. Prior to joining Lord Abbett, Khanna worked as an equity research analyst at Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management.