MCCP’s team has over 350 years of collective underwriting and investment management experience and has provided in excess of $500 billion of capital to companies across industries.
Ashok Nayyar — Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer
- 30+ years of bulge-bracket and leveraged finance experience
- Worked on transactions which have raised in excess of $300 billion in leveraged loans, bridge loans, high yield bonds and mezzanine financing
- Founder & Senior Managing Director, Cyan Partners, LP
- Co-Head, Global Leveraged Finance, Morgan Stanley
- Member, Investment Banking Management and Global Capital Markets Management Committees, Morgan Stanley
- Co-Head, North American Leveraged Finance, Citigroup
- Member, Debt Capital Markets Management Committee, Citigroup
- M.B.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Columbia University
Michael Zimmerman — Managing Director & Co-Founder
- 35+ years of experience in investment banking and investment management
- Senior Managing Director, Cyan Partners, LP
- President of Tower Capital, LLC
- Global Head, Private Equity Group, Citigroup
- Managing Director, Financial Entrepreneurs, Citigroup / Salomon Brothers
- Managing Director, Financial Sponsors and Private Finance, CS First Boston
- M.B.A., Columbia University Graduate School of Business; B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fadi Bousamra — Senior Managing Director & Chief Strategist
- 29 years of investment management experience
- 20+ years Chief Investment Officer of a public pension plan
- Committed $4 billion in private investments
- B.A., Belmont University
Barry Best — Managing Director
- 25+ years experience in investment banking, specializing in leveraged finance, private capital markets and M&A
- President, AEG Capital, LLC, a Chicago-based middle market investment bank
- Managing Director, AEG Partners and its private equity affiliate Access Value Investors
- Head of Private Capital Markets, Sagent Advisors
- Director, Salomon Brothers/Citigroup, Financial Entrepreneurs Group & Private Placements Group
- M.B.A., University of Chicago; B.A., University of Illinois
Richard Carratu — Managing Director
- 35+ years of investing and managing leverage lending debt and equity investments
- Originated and invested in over $2.1 billion in middle market debt senior and junior debt and equity transactions
- Managing Director and Investment Committee Member, Prospect Capital Management focused on private equity sponsors
- Managing Director, Global Financial Sponsors and Structured Finance Groups, GE Capital Corporation
- Chief Financial Officer and Portfolio Manager, Joseph Littlejohn & Levy (now JLL Fund)
- Senior Manager, Audit and M&A Advisory, Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
- M.B.A., Columbia University; B.S. Accountancy, Long Island University, CW Post Center, School of Professional Accountancy
Purvang Desai — Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer
- 20+ years of accounting and auditing experience
- Vice President, Private Equity Services, Citigroup
- Senior Manager, Investment Management Group, Deloitte – New York
- CPA (inactive) and Chartered Accountant
- B.Com in Financial Accounting, Bombay University
Mark Field — Managing Director & Vice Chairman
- 40+ years of experience in fixed income and high yield sales and trading
- Co-Head, High Yield, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities
- Co-Founder, Principal and President, Summit Securities Group
- Head, Fixed Income and Executive Committee Member, Schroders
- Head, High Yield, Salomon Brothers
- M.S. in Finance, University of California at Los Angeles; B.S.B.A., University of Denver
Jeffrey Kelly — Managing Director
- 30+ years experience in mezzanine and private equity investment, acquisition finance, private equity sponsors, mergers & acquisitions and as operating executive
- Managing Director, Cyan Partners, LP
- President and CEO, Penn 80 Milton
- Managing Director, Mezzanine Debt and Private Equity, AIG Vantage Capital
- Managing Director, Financial Sponsors, RBC Capital Markets
- Managing Director, Acquisition Finance and Emerging Telecom Groups, JPMorgan Chase
- Director, Financial Entrepreneurs, Citigroup / Salomon Brothers
- Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, CS First Boston
- M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Whit Marshall — Managing Director
- 30 years of leveraged finance and investment banking experience
- Head of North American Leveraged Finance, Morgan Stanley
- Member of Investment Banking and Capital Markets Capital Commitment Committee, Morgan Stanley
- Managing Director Healthcare Services Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
- Managing Director Leveraged Finance, Citigroup
- M.B.A., Columbia University; B.A., Colby College
Joe Nelson — Managing Director
- 25+ years in investment management, primarily in broadly syndicated loans and CLOs
- Head of Loans, Insight Investment
- Member, Corporate Loan Committee, Insight Investment
- Portfolio Manager and member of founding team, CIFC Asset Management
- Member, Investment Committee, CIFC Asset Management
- M.B.A., MIT; B.A., Stanford University
TJ O’Donnell — Managing Director
- 10+ years of leveraged finance and investment management experience
- Associate, Praesidian Capital
- Analyst, Nomura Securities
- B.S. in Finance, Villanova University
Jonathan Tunis — Managing Director & General Counsel
- 20+ years of leveraged lending / legal experience
- Worked on over 60 financing transactions raising in excess of $10 billion
- Co-Founder & Managing Director, Cyan Partners, LP
- Vice President, Leveraged Finance, Morgan Stanley
- Senior Associate, Banking, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Member, New York State Bar
- J.D., Columbia University School of Law; B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Michael Tamasco — Managing Director
- 25+ years of business development and investment management experience
- Head of Business Development, Nassau Asset Management
- Managing Director, Global Institutional Sales, Seix Investment Advisors
- President, Steadfast Alcentra Global Credit Fund
- Global Co-Head of Distribution, Co-Head of Rothschild Asset Management US, Rothschild Group
- Senior Vice President, Lazard Asset Management
- B.A., Syracuse University
Brian Dohmen — Senior Advisor
- 20+ years in middle market credit and capital markets
- Founder, Altitude Capital Partners, a middle market investment management firm
- Head of direct lending and origination, Medley Management
- Managing Director, Freeport Financial
- Origination, Portfolio Management and Restructuring, Newport Realty LLC, General Electric and Heller Corporate Finance
- B.B.A. in Finance and Risk Management, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Dora Dragomanova — Tax Director
- 20+ years of tax experience
- Vice President of Tax, Private Equity, Fortress Investment Group, LLC
- Tax Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- CPA, State of New York
- M.S. in Real Estate, NYU; B.B.A. in Accounting, Baruch College
Peter Bourneuf — Vice President
- 10+ years of leveraged finance and portfolio management experience
- Vice President, BNP Paribas
- B.S. in Economics & French, Georgetown University
Alex Kotsubey — Director
- 15+ years of leveraged finance and investment management experience
- Vice President, Credit Suisse
- Senior Analyst, Brookfield Asset Management
- Analyst, Eos Partners
- Analyst, Phoenix Investment Adviser
- M.B.A., NYU Stern School of Business; B.A., University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Rishi Shrivastava — Director
- 15+ years of investment management and investment banking experience
- Senior Credit Analyst, GC Investment Management LLC
- Vice President, Cyan Partners, LP
- Associate, Fixed Income Capital Markets, BTIG LLC
- Analyst, Leveraged Finance and Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
- B.A. in Chemistry, Whitman College
Benjamin Steger — Director
- 20+ years in investment management, primarily in broadly syndicated loans and CLOs
- Managing Director, Canaras Capital Management
- Member, Investment Committee, Canaras Capital Management
- Portfolio Manager and Loan Trader, Canaras Capital Management
- Credit Analyst, INVESCO
- M.B.A., Columbia University; B.S., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®)
Nils Thompson — Director
- 8+ years of leveraged finance and investment management experience
- Analyst, Leveraged Finance, Nomura Securities
- B.A. in Economics, Bryant University
Galina Wolf — Director & Senior Controller
- 20+ years of accounting and auditing experience
- Vice President, Product Accounting, EnTrustPermal
- Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- CPA, State of New York
- B.S., Accounting and Finance, NYU – Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Michael Raymond — Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer
- 5+ years of leveraged lending / legal experience
- Associate, Finance, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Member, New York State Bar
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
- B.A., Michigan State University
Olivia Pesch — Corporate Counsel
- 4+ years of legal / M&A experience
- Over $1 billion in transactions
- Member, Connecticut State Bar
- J.D. Quinnipiac University School of Law, Tax Concentration with Honors
- B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute Chicago
Timothy Tidmarsh — Vice President & Controller
- 10+ years of financial service experience
- Senior Fund Accountant, Private Equity, Citco Fund Services
- AIS – Investor Relations Supervisor, BNY Mellon
- M.B.A., West Virginia University; B.S. in Economics, West Virginia University
Ignatius Agnello — Fund Controller
- 25+ years of accounting and auditing experience
- Director, Gen II Fund Services – New York
- Manager, SS&C Technologies – New York
- Fund Controller, Kohlberg & Company – New York
- Manager, Deloitte & Touche – New York
- Chartered Accountant & Certified Public Accountant (inactive)
- Bachelor of Commerce, Bombay University, India
Kyle Crowley — Vice President
- 6+ years of financial services experience
- Consultant, Financial Accounting, Valuations and Securitization, Deloitte
- Analyst, Structured Analytics and Valuation, Moody’s Analytics
- B.S.B.A. in Finance, Bryant University
Vikram Nayyar — Vice President
- 6+ years of financial services experience
- Analyst, Place Capital
- B.S. in Economics, Syracuse University
- B.S. in Television, Radio & Film, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Connor Osborne — Vice President
- 7+ years of financial services experience
- Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions, Fitch Ratings
- Analyst, Securities-Based Lending, Morgan Stanley
- B.A. in Economics, Syracuse University
Brent Weissman — Vice President
- 7+ years of leveraged finance and private equity sponsor coverage experience
- Vice President, Credit Suisse Financial Sponsors Group
- Analyst, Credit Suisse Leveraged Finance Capital Markets
- B.S. in Applied Economics and Management – Finance Concentration, Cornell University
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®)
Alden Stone — Associate
- 4+ years of financial services experience
- Associate, Debt Capital Markets, Piper Sandler & Co.
- Analyst, Canaras Capital Management
- B.S.B.A. in Accounting and Financial Management, Bucknell University
Andrew Wood — Associate
- 5+ years of leveraged finance and investment management experience
- Associate, Nassau Global Credit
- B.S. in Finance, Fairfield University Dolan School of Business
Michael Tufano — Portfolio Associate
- 5+ years of financial services experience
- Assistant Vice President, Corporate Treasury, Morgan Stanley
- Analyst, Treasury Operations, Barclays
- B.S.B.A in Finance, Bryant University
Paige Lampert — Senior Accountant
- 5+ years of financial services experience
- B.S. in Accounting, Rochester Institute of Technology Saunders College of Business
- MBA, Binghamton University School of Management
Orlando Ferrante — Senior Accountant
- 3+ years of financial services experience
- CPA, State of Connecticut
- B.S.A, University of Connecticut
Corrie Mola — Executive Assistant
- 15+ years of administrative experience
- Supported senior management at various Fortune 500 companies
Mariane Schloss — Executive Assistant
- 8+ years of administrative experience
- Senior Event Planner in the Hospitality Industry
