Speakers for the Creditflux CLO Syposium 2011

Gretchen Bergstresser is  president and senior portfolio manager of Apidos Capital. Before joining Apidos in 2005, she was a portfolio manager at MJX and Eaton Vance.

Sara Bonesteel is head of alternative products at Prudential Fixed Income Management. Previously, she was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns.

Jeff Boswell is head of portfolio management at London-based ICG.  He joined ICG in 2008, having previously worked as head of acquisition finance at Investec.

Jeremy Carter is a managing director and head of European structured credit at Fitch Ratings based in London. Before joining Fitch, he worked as a journalist.

John Convery heads Deutsche Bank’s CLO structuring and placement business in both New York and London.. He has over 18 years’ experience in structured credit. 

Jonathan DeSimone is a managing director at Boston-based Sankaty Advisors and portfolio manager for several of its loan funds and separate accounts.

Jim Galowski is a partner of Stone Tower Capital based in New York. He is responsible for the firm's structured credit advisory and asset management business..

Peter Gleysteen is chief executive of New York-based CIFC Deerfield. Before founding CIFC, which merged with Deerfield in April, he had a 25-year career at JP Morgan.

Andrew Gordon is the chief executive and chief investment officer at Octagon Credit Investors, based in New York, which he co-founded. Previously, he was at Chemical Securities.

Hiram Hamilton is the portfolio manager for Alcentra’s Structured Credit Opportunity Fund and oversees structured investments across its funds.

Jeff Herlyn joined Tetragon Financial Management as a principal upon its formation in May 2005. Prior to that, he was a managing director and co-head of global CDOs at UBS.

Alan Kerr is co-head/managing director at Harbourmaster Capital Management, based in Dublin. He joined predecessor Euro Capital Structures’ credit team in 2000.

David Killion is chief executive of Denali Capital, a Chicago-based firm he co-founded in 2001. He previously ran First Source Financial and was also at Household Finance.

Andrew Marshak is a managing director at Credit Suisse and head of Europe for the Credit Suisse credit investments group. He has global responsibility for portfolio management.

Alexandre Martin-Min, head of structured credit investment at AXA Investment Managers, founded the CDO investment team and has contributed to the launch of numerous funds.

Jon Moulton is the chairman of UK-based private equity firm Better Capital. One of the best known figures in the private equity industry, he was a founder of Alchemy Partners.

Matthew Natcharian is a managing director at Babson Capital and head of the firm’s structured credit team. He is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s CDO business.

Dan Norman is senior vice-president and group head of the ING Investment Management senior debt group, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He began his career at Arthur Andersen. 

Linda Pace is a managing director of Carlyle Global Credit Alternatives and Carlyle’s head of US structured credit. Before Carlyle, she spent 10 years with BHF-Bank.

Miguel Ramos Fuentenebro is a managing director at GSO Capital. Before joining GSO in 2008, he was the co-founder of Washington Square Investment Management.

Daniel Smith is a senior managing director of the Blackstone Group and co-head of the GSO debt funds group, based in New York. Previously, he was at RBC Capital Markets.

Michael Smith is a partner in the international finance department at law firm Ashurst in London and a member of its securities and derivatives group.

Gunther Stein, chief investment officer and chief executive, is responsible for fixed-income and equity investments at Symphony Asset Management, which he joined in 1999.

Ben Ufer is responsible for trading the secondary CLO book at Nomura Securities in New York.  Prior to Nomura, he worked in structured credit trading at Lehman Brothers.

 

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