Adam Goldberg is a portfolio manager within the Fixed Income Division. He is Co-Lead of the CLO strategy at T. Rowe Price, where he co-manages the firm’s CLO business and serves as a credit analyst covering CLO Tranches. He is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and Price Associates.

Adam's investment experience began in 2013, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2023, beginning in the Fixed Income Division on the securitized credit team. Previously, Adam was employed by MidOcean Partners where he was responsible for the analysis, investment, and trading of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in its portfolios. Prior to this, he was employed by Black Diamond Capital Management, concentrating in CLO, mezzanine, and distressed credit portfolios.

 Adam earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business, with a major in finance and a minor in economics, from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business.

Alastair Pickett is a Portfolio Manager for Chenavari’s credit risk sharing and asset backed finance strategies, supporting the firm’s continuous investment efforts in the strategies for over a decade. The strategy invests across underlying asset classes to provide a diversified offering to its clients. Prior to joining Chenavari, Alastair served as Director of the Risk and Capital Solutions business at RBS, which he joined in 2011, focusing on originating, structuring and executing SRT transactions on behalf of the bank. Alastair started his career in CLO structuring at BNP Paribas in 2004. Alastair holds masters degrees in mathematics and statistics, and a PhD in applied probability, from Oxford University.

Aleem Akhtar is a Managing Director in the EMEA Primary CLO business at BNP Paribas with 16 years’ experience across structured credit. Prior to this, Mr Akhtar worked at S&P Global within the European Structured Finance practice. Mr. Akhtar holds a Financial Engineering degree from Imperial College and a Masters in Economics from University of Essex.

Andrea is Head of Debt Finance. His role is focused on sourcing debt for new investments and restructuring existing loans.

Andrea brings with him a wealth of experience, most recently as an ED at CBRE Capital Advisors in the Structured Finance team. Prior to that he worked at Lloyds Bank, StormHarbour Securities and S&P.

Andrew joined Federated Hermes in April 2018 and has 25 years’ experience working in financial services, of which 20 years has been in managing structured finance as a portfolio manager. In his role, he is responsible for structured credit investments across multi-asset credit portfolios. Prior to joining, Andrew was the lead portfolio manager for European ABS at BlackRock. Prior to BlackRock, Andrew was the lead portfolio manager for ABS at ECM (European Credit Management, subsequently part of Wells Fargo Asset Management) where he managed a team of specialists managing dedicated structured credit funds and allocations within wider multi-asset credit funds. Andrew started his career in financial services at Goldman Sachs in London where he worked alongside the European and emerging markets equities trading desks. He holds an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from Cambridge University.

• Anusha began her career at J.P. Morgan in 2010 and has over a decade of experience in the Global CLO Primary business, working across the US and London. She has collaborated with a diverse range of issuers, including private equity firms, hedge funds, asset managers, credit originators, and insurance companies. Anusha has also managed teams in both London and Mumbai.
• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Delhi University, where she graduated as the top-ranked student, and a Master's degree in Economics from Yale University.
• Resides in London with her husband and their two daughters.

Assia Damianova is special counsel in the Capital Markets Group in Cadwalader’s London office. With over 25 years of experience, Assia focuses on novel and innovative structured financing solutions, with an emphasis on transactions that combine securitisations and derivatives.

She regularly represents buy-side and sell-side institutions in connection with:

• Synthetic securitisations, credit-linked notes, credit default swaps (including tranched portfolio CDS), and other credit-risk transfer (CRT) products.
• Repackaging and securitisation transactions that utilize repurchase transactions or derivatives, such as currency swaps or total returns swaps, to transform the economic profile of, or achieve leveraged exposure to, repackaged or securitised assets.
• The financing of risk retention interests in securitisation transactions.
• Other structured products such as warehouses, CLOs and CFOs.
• Bespoke repurchase arrangements.
• Complex fund investments.
• Insurers’ bespoke exposures to securitisation transactions.

Assia is an expert in the EU/UK regulation of derivatives and the EU/UK securitisation rules.

Assia received a Bachelor of Laws in 1994 from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff. Before that, she attended the Law Department of Sofia University (1988-1991) and also attended a one-year course in Business Administration and Eastern European Studies. Assia completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Chester (1994-1995). She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Ben joined J.P. Morgan’s London-based EMEA Leveraged Finance Debt Capital Markets team in 2011 and has led the team since 2020.  Prior to his roles in Europe, he was a member of J.P. Morgan’s New York-based Syndicated & Leveraged Finance (SLF) team for 16 years, serving most recently as a Managing Director and member of the firm’s U.S. Primary Loan Sales Desk and SLF Capital Markets team.  Ben started his career in J.P. Morgan’s Telecom Media and Technology Investment Banking Coverage group.  He has been with the firm for over thirty years.

Prior to PVTL Point, Celine specialised in restructuring and special situations as a senior associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She was previously a Director at Reorg, the credit intelligence firm now known as Octus. Prior to that, she practised law at Hogan Lovells International, as well as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Herbert Smith Freehills. She began her career in broadcast journalism as a producer and editor of news and current affairs programmes in 2006.

Celine holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford (Keble College) and a graduate diploma in Law from the College of Law, London. She is a solicitor of England and Wales.

Chris is Head of European & US ABS based in London. He is responsible for investments and strategies across these sectors and is lead Portfolio Manager on the Challenger IM Global ABS Fund.

Chris joined Challenger Investment Management in 2021 and has over 15 years’ experience across securitised and debt financing markets. Prior to joining, Chris was a Director at 400 Capital Management (400CM) where he focused on European structured credit and helped establish the European office in January 2016. He previously worked at Kinson Capital, a structured credit advisory firm specialising in risk management, structuring and complex valuations, and started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort IB.

Chris holds a Masters of Mathematics degree from the University of Bath, has a CIPM Certificate and is a CFA Charterholder.

Daniel (“Dan”) Tobias is a partner at Orrick in the London office. Dan specialises in securitisation, with a focus on collateralised loan obligations (CLOs). He has represented arrangers, collateral managers, and warehouse finance providers in connection with a variety of European CLO 2.0 transactions and loan warehouse facilities. He has been active in the market since the resurgence of European CLOs and has worked on numerous transactions, including those involving complex originator retention structures.

Dan is consistently ranked among top capital markets lawyers by The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Chambers Global, and Chambers UK. Clients commend Dan for his ability to “problem-solve and come up with creative solutions.”

Dan received his undergraduate degrees in law and commerce from Victoria University of Wellington and a master’s degree in finance from Cambridge University.

“Daniel has a hands-on approach, is always available and provides excellent commercial awareness and great output.” – Chambers UK 2026

Darragh Culley is an Investment Director in the Institutional Retirement division of Legal and General which is the UK’s largest Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) solution provider. His focus is on Investment Business Development with a particular area of interest in Structured Finance in the context of UK insurance regulatory reforms. Before L&G, he worked for 8 years as a Director in the Structured Finance team in Aviva Investors originating a variety of private assets for the Aviva UK insurance and 3rd party clients. His educational background includes a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin and a MSC in Financial Maths from Warwick University.

David is Head of Investments at the Danish credit boutique manager, Accunia Credit Management. For the last 11+ years, David has been investing in various types of credit instruments, especially CLOs (both EUR and US) as well as credit linked notes, SRTs and High Yield bonds.

Before Accunia, David worked as a portfolio manager at PensionDanmark (2018-2022), senior portfolio manager at Accunia Credit Management (2014-2018), economist at the Danish Central Bank (2008-2014) and assistant analyst at the macro research team at Danske Bank (2005-2008). 

David has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and a CFA in ESG Investing.

Ella is head of the fixed-income team and Co-head of Real Return. Ella joined Newton in July 2023 and has 23 years’ experience in managing a variety of fixed-income  and multi-asset portfolios. Ella was previously a senior investment manager at Pictet Asset Management. Prior to that, Ella held senior investment management positions at Wellington Management and Invesco Asset Management. 

Ella was recognised as one of the 50 leading women in hedge funds for 2019 and is an active advocate of developing and nurturing diverse talent in the industry.

Ella holds an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge. She also holds a MSc in International Finance and a BA Hons degree in Business Finance. In addition, she is a CFA charterholder. 

Ella speaks five languages and is a qualified sommelier.  

Joined Newton: 2023 Joined industry: 2003

Giorgio Gallo is a Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management at Chorus Capital, a London-based private credit manager specialising in bank risk-sharing transactions, where he has been involved in SRTs since 2011.

Prior to Chorus, he held roles in structured credit at LGIM and in credit strategy at Lehman Brothers.

Jim is a qualified accountant with over 30 years of experience in technology led infrastructure and construction businesses. He has been involved in large scale projects which delivered across North America, Europe the GCC and Asia Pacifics. Having been the CFO of a number of private equity owned and of full market listed groups he has significant experience of working with businesses to develop their financial maturity as they scale. Operating on a global scale he is alert to the local needs of businesses working across multiple jurisdictions and adept at supporting complex corporate, funding and operational structures.

Jim joined in early 2023 and looks after Pure’s financial control, FP&A, tax, treasury, non-construction procurement and leveraged funding activities.

Jon is a Partner and Portfolio Manager with key responsibilities for the firm's European bank loan and US corporate credit strategies. In his role, Jon manages the firm's European CLO products as well as the firm's Income Plus and Multi-Asset strategies. 

Jon has 21 years of professional experience in the global credit markets spanning analyst, trading and portfolio management roles. Prior to joining Palmer Square, Jon was a Senior Analyst at Hermes Investment Management, a London-based asset manager. At Hermes, Jon's focus was credit research coverage of the auto, basic material, and industrial sectors. Before that, Jon was a portfolio manager for a multi-strategy credit fund at BCM & Partners, LLP, having spent several years before that as a credit analyst at BCM and an associate at Citigroup. Jon started his career as a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control in Dallas.

Jon earned an MBA from London Business School, a Master’s degree in Economics from Southern Methodist University as well as Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Management Science. He is also a CFA® charterholder.

Jonathan is a co-founder of Conduit Real Estate, a UK and European debt and special situations capital advisory business established in 2020.

ConduitRE has worked with the majority of leading Private Equity funds, investment managers and capital providers has closed in excess of 6 billion Euros of deals since inception. 

Jonathan previously worked for a London-based pan-European investment manager and was responsible for capital raising across their equity and debt strategies, as well as debt origination on behalf of a sovereign wealth fund, and earlier in his career was responsible for international clients and investment strategy at a leading global agency business.

Jonathan holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from Johns Hopkins University.

• Mr. Horowitz is a Partner in the Fortress Credit Funds Business and Head of Structured Liabilities
• Prior to joining Fortress in 2022, Mr. Horowitz was a Managing Director and portfolio manager in the Chief Investment Office of J.P. Morgan where we was responsible for $45bn of CLOs and consumer ABS
• Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Horowitz was a Managing Director in the CDO business at Morgan Stanley as Head of U.S. CDO Capital Markets and co-head of U.S. CDO Structuring and Origination
• Mr. Horowitz received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Josy Mazzucchiello is the Head of European CLO and Structured Credit Investing at Partners Group, based in London. He is also a member of the European Liquid Credit Investment Committee. He has 12 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Fitch Ratings, Societe Generale and Unicredit. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics from La Sapienza University, Italy, and a Masters Degree in Finance from IE Business School, Spain. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Managing Director, joined CVC in 2018. Kevin is a member of the Liquid Credit team and is based in London.

Prior to joining CVC, he worked at Goldman Sachs as an Associate.

Kevin has a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics.

Kieran Page is Head of Structured Credit & Mortgages at Legal & General Institutional Retirement ("LGRI"). 

Kieran continues to lead on LGRIs investments in US and European private credit loans through CLO and additionally BSL CLO. Additional areas of focus include the expansion of LGRIs investments across structured credit and oversight of LGRIs mortgage investments.

Based out of London, Mr. Page joined LGRI approaching 7 years ago and prior to this was in the Structured Finance team at Commerzbank focussing on structuring and investment in ABS securitisations.

Matthew has 22 years’ experience of buy-side credit experience in CLOs and leveraged finance. Matthew joined Pearl Diver in 2009, he heads Pearl Diver’s EMEA business, is a voting member of the investment committee and is co-head of the credit division.

Prior to joining Pearl Diver, Matthew was a Credit Analyst with Alcentra where he covered Publishing, Media, Leisure and Gaming, Restaurants and Environmental Services. His experience covers analysing and investing in CLOs, investment origination, fundamental company level credit analysis and corporate restructurings.

Matthew holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales, Swansea.

Michael Htun is Head of CLOs and Structured Credit at Kartesia, where he leads the firm’s structured credit strategy and oversees all activity across the CLO platform. He brings extensive buy-side and sell-side experience, having held senior positions across trading, portfolio management, structuring, and credit analysis.

Before joining Kartesia, Michael served as Head of European CLO Trading at BNP Paribas, where he managed a four person trading desk responsible for market making across the CLO capital structure. Under his leadership, the desk delivered its strongest annual performance on record in 2023. Before that, he was a Portfolio Manager at Cairn Capital, overseeing all CLO tranche investments across special opportunities and UCITS strategies and successfully steering the portfolios through the volatility of the COVID-19 period to generate robust returns.

Michael’s earlier roles include Vice President positions at NatWest Markets (CLO structuring) and RBC Capital Markets (ABS & CLO trading), as well as positions at Fitch Ratings and Halcyon Capital Management, where he gained foundational expertise in CLO structuring and credit analysis.

He is an active contributor to industry dialogue. Michael regularly speaks at leading conferences, including the Opal European CLO Summit, DB Leveraged Finance Conference, S&P European Structured Finance Conference, and the FIS Buy Side Innovation Summit. He also publishes a monthly CLO market update shared widely across the industry.

Michael holds a BSc in Economics, Finance & Management (2:1 honours) and an MSc in Mathematical Trading & Finance (Distinction).

Driven by a passion for innovation and strategic thinking, Michael joined Kartesia for its strong marketreputation, award-winning performance, and its culture that empowers entrepreneurial initiative. He isproud to contribute to the firm’s continued growth and to help shape Kartesia’s expanding presence inthe structured credit space.

Pak Sum is a Partner at Pearl Diver Capital and is responsible for quantitative analytics of CLO’s including structuring, modelling and pricing. 

Pak Sum joined Pearl Diver Capital in 2015 after graduating from Imperial College, London with an MSc in Mathematics & Finance.

Paul Roos joined Whitebox in 2012 and is a Partner and Head of Structured Credit. Mr. Roos also oversees the firm’s CLO Management Program and has 27 years of industry experience.  Since joining Whitebox, Mr. Roos has developed the firm’s CLO investment strategy and broadened the scope of the Structured Credit platform.

Prior to joining Whitebox, Mr. Roos served Portfolio Manager and Trader at Highland Capital Management, L.P, focusing on the firm’s Structured Products portfolio. Mr. Roos received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and an MBA with an emphasis in finance from the City University of New York - Zicklin School of Business in 2004.

Mr. Zable is Senior Managing Director, Global Head of CLOs and Liquid Bank Loans at Guggenheim Investments. He joined the firm in 2025. Prior to his role at Guggenheim, Mr. Zable was with Blackstone where he was most recently Global Head of Liquid Credit Strategies, which included the firm's Global CLO business, leveraged loan and corporate bond strategies. Mr. Zable joined Blackstone in 2007 as part of GSO Capital Partners. He began his career at JP Morgan where he focused on leveraged finance in New York and London. Mr. Zable received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and MBA from The Wharton School.

Savvas joined Prytania as a senior investment analyst in June 2022. Previously, Savvas was an investment analyst at Altum Capital Management for six years, covering the structured credit market. Savvas holds a BSc in Mathematics from King's College London and an MSc in Quantitative Finance from Bocconi University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Shiloh Bates, CFA joined Flat Rock Global in 2018 and is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer.  Prior to joining Flat Rock Global, Mr. Bates was a Managing Director at Benefit Street Partners where he worked on corporate acquisitions. Prior to that, Mr. Bates was the Head of Structured Products at BDCA Advisor, where he was responsible for investments in CLOs and leveraged loans.

During his 20-year career, Mr. Bates has worked for several CLO managers and is a frequent panelist at CLO conferences. He wrote the book, CLO Investing with a focus on CLO Equity and BB Notes.

A life-long learner, Shiloh has a BA from Virginia Tech in Political Science, an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, an MA in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MA in Statistics from Columbia University.  He was also a specialist in psychological warfare in the US Army Reserves.

Steve joined Jefferies in 2022 to head up European CLO & ABS Secondary Trading and has nearly 13 years of experience in sell-side trading. Prior to Jefferies, he was Head of European CLO Trading at Citi.

He has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick in MMORSE (Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics & Economics).

Sushila Nayak, a partner in Dechert’s global finance practice, brings a wealth of experience in complex, multidisciplinary financings, advising financial institutions, asset managers and alternative lenders on structured credit, corporate finance and debt financing transactions. Dual-qualified in New York and England and Wales, Ms. Nayak’s work spans the issuance and restructuring of structured finance products, derivatives transactions and debt issuances across Europe and the United States.

Based in Dechert’s London office, Ms. Nayak has extensive experience with collateralized loan obligations, representing leading arrangers and managers on CLO transactions, securitizations involving a broad range of esoteric assets (including trade receivables, commodities receivables, music and television rights, tax liens and renewable energy-backed loans) and private debt transactions for borrowers and lenders. Ms. Nayak also counsels technology and other companies on trade finance matters, including receivables financing, vendor financing and supply chain financing.

Till Schweizer serves as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Fasanara Capital, where he spearheads the development of the firm's European Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) platform. He joined Fasanara in late 2025 following an 18-year tenure at Partners Group, where he acted as Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for the European Penta CLO series. Schweizer is an alumnus of the University of St. Gallen, holding both a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance.

Tom is a Director in RBC’s Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”) group, focussing on origination and execution of real estate finance transactions across the UK and Europe. RECP provides flexible capital solutions from RBC’s balance sheet for senior, mezzanine, loan-on-loan and whole loan transactions across the US, Europe, UK, and Australia.

 Prior to joining RBC, Tom was part of LaSalle Investment Management’s Debt Investment and Special Situations group and previously spent time at a boutique advisory firm focussed on raising private capital for clients. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Oxford and is a CFA Charterholder.

Mr. Tristram Leach is Partner, Head of Investments - Europe and Co-Head of the European Credit & Hybrid Business, based in London. Mr. Leach joined Apollo in 2015 in Global Corporate Credit and elevated to co-leading the broader European Credit business in 2023. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Leach was a Partner at Cheyne Capital Management, initially working on the Total Return Credit Fund before elevating to Portfolio Manager of the Cheyne Long Short Credit Fund, which he directly managed from 2011 onwards. Mr. Leach graduated from The London School of Economics & Political Science with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and Government.