CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Christopher Pucillo
Chief Investment Officer & Chief Executive Officer, Solus Alternative Asset Management
Christopher Pucillo founded Solus Alternative Asset Management in July 2007. Solus emerged out of Stanfield Capital Partners when Mr. Pucillo spun out the hedge fund business, which he had been managing since January 2002. Mr. Pucillo first joined Stanfield in 2000 as the Head of Trading. Prior to joining Stanfield, Mr. Pucillo worked at Morgan Stanley from 1996 until 2000. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Pucillo was the Head of High Yield Loan Trading and was instrumental in launching the bank's leveraged loan effort. Mr. Pucillo's credit trading experience began during his seven year tenure at Bankers Trust. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Pucillo worked on various phases of underwriting leveraged loans, including structuring and negotiation of leveraged buyouts. In 1992, in an overall effort to create additional liquidity in the leveraged loan market, Mr. Pucillo moved to the loan trading desk, where he ran Leveraged Loan Trading, and was one of the four founding members of the LSTA (Loan Syndications and Trading Association), which was created to expand the liquidity of the leveraged loan market. Mr. Pucillo received a BA in Economics from Lafayette College in 1989, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
