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Leadership

Crayhill cultivates a results-oriented environment that is conducive to critical thinking and creativity.

Josh Eaton
Co-Founder

Shamafa L. Khan
Head of Marketing & IR

Carlos Mendez
Co-Founder

Joe Thomas
Chief Financial Officer

Scott Beardsley
Chief Operating Officer

Daniel Shlomi
General Counsel

Crayhill investment professionals possess decades of experience designing alternative financing solutions able to withstand challenging credit environments.

Investment Team

Our collective credit expertise is focused on harnessing the fundamental performance of the assets we finance.

We employ a highly quantitative approach to evaluating the portfolios of loans, leases and receivables that back our investments in order to generate a cycle-tested view of the projected performance of such assets. We invest in our ability to manage large data sets, extract relevance and derive realistic stress scenarios.

We draw on our deep understanding of the capital needs and growth cycle of specialty finance platforms and other asset heavy counterparties to develop the best capital solutions for our borrowers. It is our team’s experience and reputation in structuring and underwriting such asset-based private credit solutions that make us a preferred capital provider to the marketplace.

Careers at Crayhill

Culture

Our investment team seeks to promote sound reasoning and continuous recalibration of our risk-taking initiatives.

The key tenets of our team’s approach to idea generation include:

Focus on accuracy over confirmation where objectivity and truth seeking are rewarded
Accountability based on mutually derived goals and targeted outcomes
Openness to a diversity of ideas

Crayhill has assembled a purpose-built team of investment professionals that possess the multi-disciplinary skillsets and diversity of experiences and viewpoints required to successfully execute its asset-based private credit strategy.

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Diversity

We believe that our diverse workforce makes us more thoughtful investors, a stronger team, and a better firm.

We actively promote diversity and inclusion at Crayhill, and we are proud of our long-term conviction in building and maintaining a diverse firm.

38%

Women

38% of Crayhill team members identify as women.

20% Women in Leadership

63%

Minorities

63% of Crayhill team members identify as a minority.

60% Minorities in Leadership

Veterans

6% of Crayhill team members are veterans.

20% Veterans in Leadership

As a team, we are able to learn from differing perspectives, encourage one another to think outside the box, and improve our investment process based on cognitive diversity. Identity diversity enhances our team culture, brings a global perspective to our opportunistic investments, and reinforces our core values.

We are one team aligned around a shared purpose of fostering a diverse & inclusive team environment, which we strongly believe strengthens our ability to source and structure sound investments for our clients, and provide flexible and scalable capital solutions for our counterparties.

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Stefan Hoefer

Managing Director | Origination, Underwriting, and Execution of Investments

Mr. Hoefer is a Managing Director at Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Mr. Hoefer was a senior analyst on the multi-strategy team at BBT Capital, where he focused on investing across the capital structure. Prior to joining BBT Capital, Mr. Hoefer was a senior analyst at Magnetar Capital from 2012 to 2016 where he played a substantial role in making several private markets investments and was part of Magnetar’s Event Driven Credit team. He was also a senior analyst at Providence Equity from 2011 to 2012 on their multi-strategy team. Prior to his role at Providence Equity, Mr. Hoefer spent six years at Anchorage Capital, where he was a senior analyst focused on distressed debt, equity, private equity & CDS investments. Prior to Anchorage, Mr. Hoefer spent two years as an associate at Compass Partners, a London based private equity firm, and two years at Lehman Brothers’ Merchant Banking Group.

Mr. Hoefer received an MBA degree from ESADE (Barcelona, Spain) in 2001, and a law degree from Universitaet zu Koeln (Cologne, Germany).

Jihane Hassad

Director | Origination, Underwriting, and Execution of Investments

Ms. Hassad is a Director at Crayhill Capital Management focused on origination, underwriting and execution of investments.

Among her responsibilities at the firm, she is focused on the TMT investment programs. Prior to joining Crayhill, Ms. Hassad was a Vice President in the Credit Markets Division at Macquarie Group where she was focused on credit underwriting and financing solutions for FinTech companies and credit funds. Ms. Hassad joined Macquarie in 2011 and spent 4 years on the Securitized Debt trading desk where she played a key role in implementing trading strategies for residential and esoteric asset backed securities.

Ms. Hassad has a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University. Ms. Hassad also received a Master’s degree in Engineering and Applied Science from École Centrale Paris, France’s leading engineering school.

Daniel Shlomi

General Counsel

Mr. Shlomi is General Counsel of Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Mr. Shlomi was an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP from 2012 to 2022. At Akin, Mr. Shlomi focused on commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, sale, development and financing of real estate and real estate-based assets. He advised a variety of clients in the real estate industry, including investment funds, home office and individual investors, REITs, commercial developers and institutional lenders. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Shlomi was an associate at Duval & Stachenfeld LLP.

Mr. Shlomi received a J.D. degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 2011 and a B.S. in Business Administration, Real Estate Finance Concentration, from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business in 2007. Mr. Shlomi is member of the New York and California Bars.

Sloan Sutta

Managing Director | Origination and Execution of Investments

Mr. Sutta is a Managing Director at Crayhill Capital Management focused on origination and execution of private structured credit transactions.

Prior to joining Crayhill in August 2018, Mr. Sutta was a Managing Director at Sculptor Capital Management (formerly Och-Ziff Capital Management) where he was responsible for the private structured credit business within Sculptor’s U.S. Structured Credit team. Prior to joining Sculptor in July 2015, Mr. Sutta was a Managing Director at Garrison Investment Group where he was responsible for specialty finance, real estate, and structured credit investment opportunities within the Financial Assets team. Prior to joining Garrison in 2008, Mr. Sutta was an Associate in the Asset Finance Capital Markets group at Credit Suisse focused on execution of esoteric asset backed securities issuance transactions. Mr. Sutta received a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Scott Beardsley

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Beardsley is the Chief Operating Officer at Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Mr. Beardsley was a Partner and Head of Treasury & Operations at BlueMountain Capital Management, a $20 billion multi-strategy alternative asset manager, where he spent 17 years after joining at inception of the firm in 2003. Up until his departure, Mr. Beardsley was responsible for all portfolio finance, liquidity management, counterparty relationships, PnL & valuations, and operations activities.

Mr. Beardsley also chaired the Trade Oversight Committee and was a member of the Partner, Valuation, Risk & Compliance committees at BlueMountain. Prior to joining BlueMountain, he started his career with roles at GlobeOp Financial Services and Paloma Partners. Mr. Beardsley earned an M.B.A from Clarkson University and a B.S. in Finance from Castleton University.

Joseph Thomas

Managing Director | CFO & CCO

Mr. Thomas is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Crayhill Capital Management LP.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Mr. Thomas was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Dune Capital Management LP, an investment management firm that launched as a spinoff from Soros Fund Management in late 2004. Mr. Thomas spent ten years at Dune advancing his career from Controller to CFO and CCO. Prior to joining Dune in 2005, Mr. Thomas spent over three years at SS&C GlobeOp Financial Services, a fund administrator that provides middle and back office financial services to hedge funds and investment managers. At SS&C GlobeOp, Mr. Thomas was a Director overseeing the financial operations of twenty master-feeder hedge funds. Mr. Thomas managed a team of thirty accounting and finance professionals. Prior to joining SS&C GlobeOp, Mr. Thomas worked as an Assistant Controller for Hamilton Partners Limited, a hedge fund and broker dealer. Prior to joining Hamilton, from August of 1985 to July of 2000, Mr. Thomas worked in senior accounting roles of commodity firms at Marco International Corp., Imperial Commodities, Wego Chemical and Mineral Corp. and Bozzo USA Trading Inc.

Mr. Thomas received a B.B.A. in accounting from Adelphi University in 1985 and an M.B.A. in finance from Adelphi University in 1997.

Joshua P. Eaton

Managing Partner | Co-Founder

Joshua Eaton is a Co-Founder and a Managing Partner of Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to founding Crayhill in July 2015, Mr. Eaton was a Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income Group of Magnetar Capital, where he focused on illiquid, structured credit and asset-based investment opportunities. Prior to joining Magnetar in 2012, Mr. Eaton was a Managing Director in the Structured Finance Group at Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P., where he developed and advised on asset-based and capital solutions for banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill in 2010, Mr. Eaton spent over five years at Dune Capital Management LP, an investment management firm he helped launch as a spinoff from Soros Fund Management in late 2004. Prior to Dune, Mr. Eaton spent seven years as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where his practice focused on corporate and financial transactions. Mr. Eaton received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1997, a degree in French studies, with honors, from Université de Caen, France in 1994, and a B.A. in Business Administration, Finance Concentration, from the University of Washington in 1992. Mr. Eaton is member of the New York Bar.

Shamafa L. Khan

Managing Director | Head of Marketing & Investor Relations

Ms. Khan is a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations and Marketing at Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Ms. Khan was a member of the Global Business Development Group at Babson Capital Management (now Barings), where she held various positions, the last of which was on the Institutional Sales team where she was responsible for client relationships and capital raising for a suite of fixed income strategies. She also served as a product specialist for Babson’s alternative investments platform, developing and implementing marketing strategies for new fundraising initiatives. Prior to joining Babson, Ms. Khan was on the Global Capital Introductions team at UBS Securities and prior to that was also a part of the alternatives research team at UBS.

Ms. Khan received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and a minor in Economics from Columbia University.

Carlos Mendez

Managing Partner | Co-Founder

Mr. Mendez is a Co-Founder and a Managing Partner of Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to founding Crayhill in July 2015, Mr. Mendez was a Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income Group of Magnetar Capital, where he focused on illiquid, structured credit and asset-based investment opportunities. Prior to Magnetar, Mr. Mendez was a Managing Director and Head of the Structured Finance Group at Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P., where he structured new issue origination and asset-based finance solutions for specialty finance companies and banks. Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill, Mr. Mendez was Co-Founder and Principal of ICP Securities, LLC, where he oversaw a capital markets business focused on structured credit in new issue origination, sales and proprietary trading for asset-backed securities and structured products in New York and London. Mr. Mendez received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Latin American Studies from the United States Naval Academy. He also holds a graduate certificate in Program Management from the University of Washington.