Robert S. Koenigsberger
Founder, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner, Gramercy
Mr. Koenigsberger is the firm's Chief Investment Officer and a Managing Partner. He founded Gramercy in 1998 with a vision for the firm to become a global institutional investment management firm focused on emerging markets.
Robert has over 24 years of investment experience dedicated to emerging markets with a specialization in fixed income securities. In 2010, he led Gramercy's efforts in conceiving, organizing and facilitating the successful restructuring of Argentina's debt, the first private sector led restructuring of a sovereign default.
Prior to founding Gramercy, Mr. Koenigsberger was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers from 1995 to 1998, where he managed the bank's Sovereign Debt restructuring group. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated for three years where he traded performing and distressed emerging market debt securities in New York, London and Hong Kong. From 1987 to 1991, he held the position of Vice President at CR-P Associates, a financial advisory firm with offices in Central and South America that led sovereign debt restructurings, debt buy-backs, and debt-equity swap transactions in Latin America.
Mr. Koenigsberger received a B.A. in Latin American Political Science and History of Latin America from the University of California, San Diego (with Honors), an M.A. in International Studies with a concentration in Latin America from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
