Hildene Capital Management, LLC distressed hedge funds distressed distressed investing distressed asset distressed debt distressed high yield hildenecap hildencap structured finance structured products hedge funds trust preferred trust preferred securities trups bank investing investing in banks cdo clo abs cdo distressed cdo distressed clo distressed abs distressed abs cdo brett jefferson marathon asset management john scannell michael nichol

Mr. Jefferson 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 where he 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. Mr. Jefferson has 13 years of experience in the structured finance market and 5 years experience in the option arbitrage industry. Mr. Jefferson's 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.