My wife of 41 years, Avery, and I split our time between Rowayton and Park City, UT. Avery and I raised our children (Dan – 35 and Kelsey – 33) in Darien, having become “Darien expats” when we sold our house on Nickerson Lane in 2019. I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, earned my BA in 1980 at UC Santa Barbara and, after a couple years each of living in Vail Colorado then working in commercial banking in CT, I earned my MBA in Finance in 1987 at Columbia Graduate School of Business.
After business school I spent my career in investment management, initially at Alliance Capital Management and then at PPM America, focusing on corporate and structured finance private investments. In 2004 I transitioned to special opportunities investment management to focus on transactions backed by distressed assets, loan pools, finance receivables, aircraft and ships. After working at two predecessor firms, I was a partner at Atalaya Capital Management from 2011 until retiring in 2018. I subsequently served as a senior advisor to Atalaya until 2022 and remain close to the firm.
Outside of investing, I serve on the board of an HOA in Park City, UT and am president of an HOA in Santa Monica, CA. Given the locale of our second home, it may come as no surprise that I love to downhill ski, but also just getting outdoors to exercise – nordic skiing, long distance running and cycling. I struggle at golf as I have no inherent talent, and I am enthusiastic but mediocre at racquet sports.
