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EventsNavigating Today’s Private Credit Landscape Co-hosted in partnership with Houlihan LokeySpeakers Navigating Today’s Private Credit Landscape Co-hosted in partnership with Houlihan Lokey - Speakers
September 12, 2024
Conference
New York, NY
Colbert Cannon
Managing Director
HPS Investment Partners
Mr. Cannon is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Prior to joining HPS in 2017, Mr. Cannon was a Partner and Director of Research at Wingspan Investment Management, a distressed credit investment firm launched in 2013. Prior to Wingspan, Mr. Cannon was a Managing Director at Glenview Capital, where he led the Credit Investment effort from 2009 to 2012. Prior to joining Glenview, Mr. Cannon was a Principal at Audax Group, a Boston-based Private Equity firm. Mr. Cannon began his career in Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Cannon holds an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College.
Jennifer Han
Executive Vice President, Chief Counsel, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs
MFA
Jennifer Han serves as Associate General Counsel at Managed Funds Association (MFA). In her position, she advocates and shapes legislative and regulatory policies affecting the alternative investment industry in the U.S., Europe and Asia. She advises on, develops and implements strategies for MFA members in seeking legal, regulatory and compliance changes and/or guidance for investment advisers, commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators. She has extensive experience working with policy makers and regulators, such as throughout the financial crisis, post-crisis and to refinement of today’s regulatory framework. She works regularly with legislative policy makers and regulators, including the SEC, CFTC, Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve, NFA, ESMA, UK FCA and IOSCO, among many others.
As background, MFA represents the global alternative investment industry and its investors by advocating for sound industry practices and public policies that foster efficient, transparent, and fair capital markets. MFA, based in Washington, DC, is an advocacy, education, and communications organization established to enable hedge fund and managed futures firms in the alternative investment industry to participate in public policy discourse, share best practices and learn from peers, and communicate the industry’s contributions to the global economy. MFA members help pension plans, university endowments, charitable organizations, qualified individuals and other institutional investors to diversify their investments, manage risk, and generate attractive returns over time. MFA has cultivated a global membership and actively engages with regulators and policy makers in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia and many other regions where MFA members are market participants.
Prior to joining MFA, Jennifer was a staff attorney in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations at the SEC, where she conducted inspections and examinations, and advised on legal and compliance matters relating to developments in securities regulations and industry practices. Jennifer began her legal career as an associate with Pickard and Djinis LLP, a boutique securities law firm in Washington, D.C. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and her Juris Doctor from American University. While in law school, she was an Editor of the American University International Law Review. Jennifer is a member in good standing of the Virginia bar.
Thomas Hansen
Managing Director, Deputy Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer
Oak Hill Advisors
Thomas Hansen is a Managing Director, Deputy Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer at Oak Hill Advisors, a leading alternative investment firm with $65 billion of capital under management across performing and distressed credit investments in North America and Europe. He has primary responsibility for OHA’s accounting process, control environment under Sarbanes Oxley 404, valuation process and client onboarding process. Mr. Hansen serves on various firm committees including the risk, compliance, valuation and new product and business activity committees. Prior to OHA, he was a senior manager in the audit practice at KPMG, LLP for 10 years, serving various alternative investment managers. Additionally, Mr. Hansen served as a global and national instructor for the firm in the financial services practice. He earned an M.B.A and a B.B.A., magna cum laude, from Texas Wesleyan University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mike Hommeyer
Managing Director, Capital Markets Group
Houlihan Lokey
Mr. Hommeyer is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Capital Markets Group. He spearheads the capital markets syndicate function that focuses on expanding the firm’s investor coverage, distribution capabilities, and market insights as they pertain to U.S. private credit placements.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Hommeyer spent 25 years at Morgan Stanley. Most recently, he served as a Managing Director in Global Capital Markets, where he established Morgan Stanley’s private credit placement platform, executing debt and equity-linked transactions. Before that, Mr. Hommeyer was part of the Fixed Income Division, focusing on both leveraged loan and high-yield distributions.
Mr. Hommeyer holds a B.A. with high honors in Mathematics and Social Sciences from Dartmouth College as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Tim Kang
Director, Portfolio Valuation
Houlihan Lokey
Mr. Kang is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial and Valuation Advisory business. He has nearly two decades of experience in the firm’s Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services practice, focusing on illiquid debt and equity investments as well as other complex securities valuation for numerous hedge fund, business development company, and financial institution clients.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Kang completed a summer internship at Dealogic as a research analyst focusing on the buildout of both the financial sponsors and M&A database platforms.
Mr. Kang holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Economics from Columbia University.
Cindy Ma
Managing Director and Global Head of Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services
Houlihan Lokey
Dr. Cindy Ma is Managing Director and Global Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services. Cindy works primarily with private equity funds, hedge funds, venture funds, business development companies and corporate clients. She has extensive experience in valuing illiquid and complex securities across capital structures, industries and geographies. She advises senior fund managements in establishing best in class valuation policies and procedures.
She has extensive training, academic expertise, and trading experience in commodities, derivatives, securities, foreign exchange, fixed incomes, structured transactions, hedging strategies, and risk management issues. She has served as a consulting and testifying expert for the SEC on various fund- and valuation-related matters.
She is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Management Committee, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council, and Technical Standards Committee. Externally, she is on the Financial Instrument Board of and the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC). She is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). She also holds the designation of CFA and obtained her CPA license (now inactive) in the state of Colorado. She was selected as the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds in 2020.
Prior to Houlihan Lokey, she was a Partner at Ernst & Young, worked as a derivatives trader for a global commodity house, and taught as an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business.
She graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in Finance and from Indiana University with a B.S. in Accounting. She has published numerous articles on valuation, derivatives and risk management and co-authored a college textbook on derivatives. She is a frequent speaker in industry conferences. She is a board member of PENCIL, a NYC based charity which connects public school students to success.
Mike McMahon
Managing Director, Head of Asset Management
Houlihan Lokey
Mr. McMahon is Head of the Asset Management practice within Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Services Group. He has more than three decades of investment banking and capital markets experience advising financial service companies.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey in 2009, Mr. McMahon was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Diversified Financials within the Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he spent nearly 10 years at Credit Suisse/Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a Managing Director, where he was responsible for capital raising and advisory assignments for specialty finance companies. Before covering financial institutions in investment banking, Mr. McMahon worked in various capacities as a structured products/ABS banker both at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and NatWest Securities/Greenwich Capital Markets, where he covered and executed transactions on behalf of clients issuing asset-backed securities.
Mr. McMahon has advised on a variety of asset management, specialty finance, and government-related transactions, including the internal recapitalization of Och-Ziff; the sale of minority stakes in Halcyon and Mariner Investment Group; the sale of Triangle Capital, NewStar Financial, Full Circle Capital, MetWest, and the IMAs of Fifth Street Asset Management; the going-private transaction for ZAIS Group; the acquisition of Robeco; the acquisition of the IMAs of Business Development Corporation of America (BDCA), Realty Finance Trust, and KCAP Financial; and the acquisition of Apollo Residential Mortgage REIT by Apollo Commercial Mortgage REIT. He also advised on the largest prepackaged bankruptcy and first successful bankruptcy restructuring of a U.S. bank holding company (CIT Group) and advised the U.S. Treasury on the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the divestitures of its TARP investments.
Mr. McMahon holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Kentucky.
Scot Pasquale
Chief Financial Officer
Marathon Asset Management
Scot Pasquale is the Chief Financial Officer at Marathon Asset Management. Based in New York, he joined the firm in 2008. Scot received a B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University. He previously worked at Lehman Brothers and EY.
Gaurav Seth
Managing Director, Head of Capital Solutions, Americas
Warburg Pincus
Gaurav Seth is based in New York and is a Managing Director and the Head of Capital Solutions – Americas. Gaurav has nearly 25 years of investing experience, including ten as a Partner at Goldman Sachs, where his tenure included leading the firm’s Special Situations group in the Americas, including private and structured equity, public securities, private corporate and structured debt, and commercial real estate debt and equity. In this role, he led and originated numerous transactions across North and South America. During his tenure, he also led and built out a large team of investors and capital markets professionals. Gaurav serves on the Board of Managers at Swarthmore College and chairs the Swarthmore College Investment Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from Swarthmore College.
Jonathan Sloan
Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation
Houlihan Lokey
Mr. Sloan is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of asset securitization, focusing on a variety of structured products, including all types of collateralized debt obligations, derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and other asset-backed securities. Mr. Sloan specializes in providing valuations of illiquid securities for financial reporting, transaction advisory, restructuring alternatives, and litigation support. He has experience in finance and securitization with a range of businesses, including insurance, investment banking, Big Four accounting, and hedge funds.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Sloan was a Director at MBIA Insurance Corp., where he oversaw the wind-down of its $120 billion CLO and other structured products portfolio. In this capacity, he executed transactions with banks and hedge funds, led complex litigations and arbitrations, and was a key member of MBIA’s capital-raising team. Prior to MBIA, Mr. Sloan was responsible for structured credit products and other asset-backed securities for J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. He started his career as a Senior Accountant at Arthur Andersen and then joined D.E. Shaw & Co., LP.
Mr. Sloan graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Accounting from Binghamton University’s School of Management, where he also earned an M.S. in Accounting.
Contact
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