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Brett Jefferson, President / Chief Investment Officer, Hildene Capital Management, LLC
Mr. Jefferson is a founding member and the Chief Investment Officer of Hildene Capital Management, LLC and oversees all firm investment decisions and strategies. Prior to founding Hildene, Mr. Jefferson was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Marathon Asset Management. Mr. Jefferson was responsible for CDO, CBO, and CLO investments in the Marathon Structured Finance Fund. In addition to investment decisions, Mr. Jefferson served as the resident expert in the structuring of CDOs, CBOs, and CLOs. The primary focus of the CDO issuance platform was to create an efficient financing program for Marathon’s various investment strategies.

Mr. Jefferson has 10 years of experience in the structured finance market and 5 years experience in the option arbitrage industry. Mr. Jefferson skills include modeling, structuring and reverse engineering transactions as well as pricing, trading and evaluating secondary positions. He previously worked in the Structured Credit Products groups at Salomon Smith Barney and Chase Securities, in addition to working at two smaller regional firms in a similar capacity. In the option arbitrage industry, Mr. Jefferson worked for O’Connor and Associates, Chicago Research and Trading (CRT) and was an independent market maker. Mr. Jefferson earned his Masters of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996 and his B.A. from Syracuse University in 1988.