Leveraged Loans: Roaring Back

Mark Attanasio

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Crescent Capital Group

Mark Attanasio is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Crescent Capital Group LP and Chairman and Principal Owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. Mr. Attanasio holds positions on several not-for-profit boards, including Heal the Bay, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Harvard-Westlake School. In addition, Attanasio served on the President′s Leadership Council at Brown University for a decade and is currently a member of Major League Baseball's Executive Council, Labor Policy Committee and is Chairman of the Investment Committee. He received an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

Lauren Basmadjian

Managing Director, Co-Head of Liquid Credit and Head of US Loans & Structured Credit

Carlyle Group

Lauren Basmadjian is a Managing Director, Co-Head of Liquid Credit and Head of US Loans & Structured Credit within Carlyle’s Global Credit platform. She is based in New York and sits on the Investment Committees for all of Carlyle's US Loan and CLO investing activities. Ms. Basmadjian joined the Carlyle Group in 2020 after 19 years at Octagon Credit Investors, where she was a Senior Portfolio Manager and member of the Investment Committee. Prior to becoming a Portfolio Manager, Ms. Basmadjian managed Octagon's workout efforts and also oversaw the leisure & entertainment, retail, consumer products, business services, food & beverage and technology industries. Before joining Octagon, Ms. Basmadjian worked in the Acquisition Finance Group at Chase Securities, Inc. She graduated Cum Laude from the Stern School of Business at New York University with a B.S. in Finance and Economics.

Roberta Goss

Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Bank Loan and CLO Platform

Pretium Partners

Roberta Goss is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Bank Loan and CLO Platform at Pretium, where she is responsible for building and leading the Firm’s Crown Point CLO business, as well as managing investments across the Firm’s other corporate credit portfolios. Ms. Goss joined Pretium in 2019 and has over thirty years-experience managing high yield, leveraged loan and CLO investments. She joined Pretium from DFG Investment Advisers where she ran their $4 billion CLO platform. Ms. Goss spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as the co-head of the high yield and bank loan business for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Earlier in her career she worked on a proprietary desk in London managing high yield and leveraged loan investments for Saudi International Bank (an affiliate of JP Morgan). Ms. Goss is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. She received a BComm from Mount Allison University.

Cade Thompson

Partner

KKR & Co

Cade Thompson joined KKR in 2011 and is a Partner on the KKR Capital Markets team. Prior to joining KKR, he was a senior member in the Americas financing group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he focused on leveraged finance capital markets and distribution. Previously, Mr. Thompson held positions with Banc of America Securities and Wachovia Securities. He received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.

Jeannine Amodeo

Leveraged Finance Reporter

Bloomberg LP

Jeannine Amodeo is a leveraged loan reporter at Bloomberg News. Amodeo joined Bloomberg in 2013 to build coverage of the institutional leveraged loan market after many years as a senior salesperson in loan syndications and trading. She was a director in loan sales at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where she sold and traded leveraged loans to fund buyouts and film financings. She was also a vice president at Deutsche Bank for over thirteen years where she structured and pitched deals to clients, and syndicated loans for U.S. and multi-national firms. She holds the position of Vice President on the board of Deutsche Bank Alumni. She holds a MBA in finance from Fordham University, NYC, and a B.S. in finance from St. John's University, NY.

Lisa Lee

Corporate Finance Reporter

Bloomberg

Lisa Lee is a corporate finance reporter at Bloomberg News. Lee joined Bloomberg in 2016 and has deep experience in credit markets. Prior to Bloomberg, she was a senior correspondent for Reuters LPC, covering some of the most complex debt stories in the leveraged loan market. She was also a columnist at Reuters Breaking views and for Dow Jones where she opined on M&A, private equity and financial institutions. Prior to entering journalism, she was a leveraged finance banker at GE Capital and an M&A associate doing cross-border transactions in Korea. She has also spent time working as a research aide for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on international trade policy. She has a MBA degree from Columbia Business School and BA from Yale University.

Davide Scigliuzzo

Senior Reporter

Bloomberg News

Davide Scigliuzzo is a senior reporter with Bloomberg News in Los Angeles, where he covers the intersection of credit markets, private equity and investment banking. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2018, he wrote about debt markets in the U.S., Latin America and the CEEMEA region for Thomson Reuters. He holds a M.A. from the The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.