Jim Baker

Mr. James C.
Baker is a Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Kayne Anderson NextGen Energy & Infrastructure, Inc., a Co-Managing Partner at KA Fund Advisors LLC, a Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Kayne Anderson Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc., a Managing Partner & Co-Head at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP, a Partner & Sr Managing Director at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP, a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Kayne Anderson Income Strategies Fund and a Senior Managing Director at KA First Reserve LLC.
He is on the Board of Directors at Kayne Anderson Income Strategies Fund and Expression Therapeutics LLC.
He is responsible for overseeing the group’s investment strategies.
MPrior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2004, Mr. Baker was a director in the energy investment banking group at UBS Securities LLC, focusing on securities underwriting and mergers and acquisitions in the energy industry.
Baker began his career in the energy investment banking group at PaineWebber Incorporated.
He earned a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and an M.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University in 1997.