Ms. Sembos has 23 years of experience in the financial services industry across business strategy, mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory, credit analysis and portfolio management. Prior to joining CIFC, Ms. Sembos spent over 17 years at Credit Suisse and held numerous leadership positions, including Head of Strategy, Chief of Staff and Americas Chief Operating Officer of Global Credit Products in the firm’s Global Markets business. Previously, Ms. Sembos spent 10 years in Portfolio Management at Credit Suisse and served as Director of Research, Deputy Portfolio Manager for EMEA and Portfolio Manager for Global Emerging Markets. She started her career as an investment banking analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions and the Financial Institutions Group. Ms. Sembos earned her PhD in Management Studies and Finance and her Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London, U.K. She is a CFA Charterholder and member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society New York, where she currently serves as the Alternative Investments Group Chair and as mentor for the Young Leaders Group. Ms. Sembos is also Pod Leader at Declare, mentoring professional women and helping them navigate their careers, and a member of the Hellenic American Association for Professionals in Finance, where she previously served on the Board of Directors.

Ms. Richards has over 20 years of experience in alternative asset management. Prior to CIFC, Ms. Richards was co-founder and general counsel of an alternative asset manager and adviser focused on investing in Latin America. Ms. Richards was General Counsel of Brookfield Asset Management’s Private Funds Group for four years where she was responsible for the structuring, marketing, fundraising and closing of private equity, real estate and infrastructure funds, as well as joint ventures. Ms. Richards also played a critical role in the development of three global corporate platforms—Fund Operations, Conflicts Management and Compliance. Prior to joining Brookfield, Ms. Richards worked with Kirkland & Ellis LLP where she represented a wide range of private investment funds, in their fund-raising efforts, operations and transactions, as well as certain institutional investors. Ms. Richards started her career at Shearman & Sterling LLP where she also focused on asset management. Ms. Richards holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

Bernie McCabe, Head of Human Resources holds 26 years of experience in Human Resources including nearly 3 years at LBC Credit Partners. Prior to joining CIFC, through the acquisition of LBC, Mr. McCabe served at The Bancorp Bank as Chief Human Resource Officer for 6 years and previously as Head of HR at American Modern Insurance Company a division of Munich Re America. He began his career at Vanguard and has held positions in HR management at CIGNA and ACE USA. Mr. McCabe holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in Human Organization Science from Villanova University.

Ms. Redmond has over 17 years of experience in investor relations and marketing. Prior to joining CIFC, she spent four years as an Associate Vice President at OFS Capital Management where she managed their marketing and investor relations across OFS’s public and private funds. Prior to OFS, Ms. Redmond spent over seven years at Palisade Capital Management, most recently as an Assistant Vice President where she led relationship management across both the firms traditional and alternative strategies. Ms. Redmond began her career at Aetos Alternatives Management, where she spent nearly five years on the business development and client services team. Ms. Redmond graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in Finance and International Business.

Mr. Hager has 26 years of experience focused in accounting, taxation, financial reporting, and fund operations. Prior to joining CIFC, Chad held the position of Senior Controller at Diameter Capital Partners LP, where he was responsible for fund accounting, tax and regulatory compliance. Prior to Diameter, he spent a decade as CFO for Wilson Capital Management LLC, a boutique long/short equity hedge fund manager, and before that as Controller/CCO at Second Curve Capital. Mr. Hager started his career in public accounting, providing audit, tax, and advisory services to a variety of industry groups before focusing on the fund space as a Manager in the Alternative Investment Group at Marcum LLP. Mr. Hager holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Hofstra University, and has been a licensed CPA in the State of New York since 1999.

Mr. Errico is the Head of Settlements & Deal Administration at CIFC and has 27 years of experience in operations, change management and business process re-engineering specializing in CLOs and other Loan products. Prior to joining CIFC, Mr. Errico held various management level roles at Deutsche Bank over 14 years including Head of Global Loan Services, DB’s third party loan servicing provider, specializing in CLOs, distressed debt and agency services. Prior to that, Mr. Errico was Head of Global Loan Consulting responsible for all change management across DB’s loan operations group globally. Most recently, Mr. Errico was part of DB’s Business Engineering team which was responsible for all business process engineering across Operations. Mr. Errico holds a B.B.A in Finance from the University of Miami, FL.

Mr. Boothby has 24 years of experience in credit, business development, and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Boothby spent four years as Managing Director at Seix Investment Advisors where he was responsible for raising assets across investor segments throughout North America. Prior to his time with Seix, Mr. Boothby was a Vice President at Palisade Capital Management where he was responsible for raising assets from single and multi-family offices as well as endowment and foundation clients. Previous to Palisade Capital Management, Mr. Boothby was a Vice President in the Private Client Group at Roosevelt Investment. Prior to Roosevelt Investment, Mr. Boothby spent over two years with Aviva Investors as a Director focused on sourcing and developing clients in North America and introducing alternative and traditional solutions to clients focused in the family office and hedge fund of fund channel. Prior, Mr. Boothby spent two years with Ram Capital Resources as a Director of Marketing and Client Development. Mr. Boothby spent over four years with Saddle River Capital Management as a Vice President focused on sales and marketing. Mr. Boothby began his career with Morgans Independent Advisors based in London as an Independent Financial Consultant. Mr. Boothby received a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from the University of Liverpool.

Mr. Hughes has over 25 years of sales, marketing and business development experience. Prior to joining CIFC, Mr. Hughes served as Head of Global Distribution at Muzinich & Co. Prior to joining Muzinich & Co. in 2008, Mr. Hughes served as Relationship Manager, Global Markets at Raiffeisen Zentral Osterreich AG and Head of Pension Fund and Investment Consultant Relations at FTSE Russell. He began his career in sales at Thomson Reuters. Mr. Hughes graduated with Honors from Loughborough University with a BSc in Economics.

Ms. Thomas is the Chief Accounting Officer at CIFC and has over 22 years of experience in accounting and financial reporting. Prior to joining CIFC in January 2013, Ms. Thomas spent four years at iStar Financial Inc. where she was responsible for financial reporting and accounting policy. Prior to that, Ms. Thomas was a Manager in the assurance and advisory services practice of Ernst & Young, LLP where she served clients in the real estate and financial services industries. Ms. Thomas holds a B.S. degree from St. John’s University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA and the NYSSCPA.

Mr. DiRocco has 42 years of experience in financial services. Mr. DiRocco joins CIFC after serving as the Chief Operating Officer and founding member of Reef Road Capital Management. Prior to Reef Road Capital Management, Mr. DiRocco’s career includes the CFO and COO functions at Citadel Investment Group and Paloma Partners LP respectively, throughout both firm’s major growth periods. Mr. DiRocco also served as COO of credit fund Bell Point Capital and equity fund Balance Asset Management. He built and ran Shearson Lehman’s international stock loan, prime brokerage and repo businesses as well as founding London Global Securities, an international financing and securities lending intermediary. Mr. DiRocco has built broker dealers in five different countries as well as two technology firms and has been internationally recognized for his contributions to securities industry. Mr. DiRocco received a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, graduating summa cum laude.

With over 24 years as a technologist, Mr. Heimer has a diverse background in Information Technology. He has led and developed technology initiatives to support floor operations for broker dealers on the NYSE & PHLX and architected low latency algorithmic trading infrastructures within premiere data centers. Prior to working in financial services Mr. Heimer was the principal for a managed services provider, worked in higher education as a network engineer and has a diverse background in broadcast engineering for his roles at FOX, NBC, and ABC affiliates. He holds a M.S. degree in Telecommunications and Network Management from Syracuse University and a B.S in Communication from Millersville University in addition to several professional technology certifications.

Ms. Wicker has 16 years of experience in regulatory compliance. Prior to joining CIFC, Ms. Wicker was Chief Compliance Officer & Associate General Counsel at Sound Point Capital Management, LP. Prior to Sound Point, she was Deputy Chief Compliance Officer & Associate General Counsel at GoldenTree Asset Management LP. Prior to GoldenTree, she held senior compliance roles at Permal Group and Brookfield Investment Management. Ms. Wicker started her career at Goldman Sachs, supporting the Fixed Income Trading and Sales desks. Ms. Wicker holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the New York State bar.

Mr. Sanofsky is a Managing Director at CIFC with a primary focus on the structuring, marketing, and execution of CLOs, loan accumulation facilities, and structured credit funds/accounts. Prior to joining CIFC, Mr. Sanofsky was at RBS Securities Inc. where he was responsible for financing, structuring and distributing new issue U.S. CLO transactions and leveraged loan warehouse facilities. Prior to joining RBS Securities Inc., Mr. Sanofsky was an attorney at Dechert LLP where he advised financial institutions, asset managers, hedge funds and institutional investors in a variety of structured finance transactions, which included broadly syndicated and middle-market CLOs, as well as rated and unrated leveraged loan warehouse facilities. Mr. Sanofsky holds a B.S. in Finance from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Mr. Cohen has 35-years’ experience in operations and multi sector growth and distressed investing with the past 18 years dedicated to private credit, junior debt, and special situations. He is a Managing Partner of LBC Credit Management, a manager of ten middle market private credit funds, which he co- founded in 2005 and sold to CIFC Asset Management in 2021. Prior to LBC, he was an operating partner for LLR Partners, a middle market private equity firm and co-founded and was the Chairman and CEO of Globalcom Telecommunications which he sold to Comcast Corporation in 1997, where he served as Division President and CFO. Early in his career, Mr. Cohen worked in public accounting, real-estate, and the healthcare industries. Throughout his career, he has been a board member for many companies across diversified industries and is currently serves on the board for Cedar Electronics Corp and Diversified Maintenance Services representing LBC. Mr. Cohen has also served on numerous charitable boards, has been honored for his professional and charitable achievements and is a current member of the Board of Trustees for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Lay Employees Retirement Plans. He is a graduate of the Drexel University Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting.

Mr. Bard has 13 years of engineering experience and been with CIFC since 2018. Previously, he spent four years as a Systems Engineer for a publicly traded asset manager who held contracts with two publicly traded BDCs. Mr. Bard started his career at a technology consulting firm that focused on clients in the financial sector. Mr. Bard holds a B.B.A. from Iona College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Mr. Surendran has 20 years of experience building software and analytics applications for structured products, mortgage and e-commerce domains. Prior to joining CIFC, he led the data and analytics effort for SPG Trading desks at Morgan Stanley, with cutting edge work on nlp and ml to extract information from deal docs. He built various risk, pnl and pre-trade analytics models for ABS, CLO and Leverage Loan desks at Morgan Stanley. Prior to his 12 years at Morgan Stanley, he worked at UBS, Ameriquest Mortgage Services, eBay and i2 Technologies. Mr. Surendran loves to build on scale and passionate about using technology to solve business problems. He completed his engineering training from REC Calicut.

Mr. Pitt is the Chief Operating Officer at the CIFC London office and has 22 years of experience in Investment Banking and Asset Management middle office and operations. Prior to joining CIFC, Mr. Pitt was COO at Centricus Asset Management and has also held senior operational positions at Rhodium Capital Management, Citi Capital Advisors and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Pitt holds a BA in Economics and Public Policy from Leeds Metropolitan University Business School.

Mr. McGann has 24 years of experience in accounting, operations, and financial reporting. Prior to joining CIFC, Mr. McGann held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Capstone Investment Advisors LLC. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Guggenheim Investment Management LLC and Guggenheim Corporate Funding LLC, where he was responsible for the accounting and finance functions of Guggenheim Partners’ structured credit division. Prior to his role at Guggenheim Investment Management, Mr. McGann performed various accounting and finance roles within Guggenheim Partners, as well as having worked as an audit senior at Deloitte. Mr. McGann holds a B.S. in Accountancy from Northern Illinois University. Mr. McGann is a licensed CPA in the State of New York, and is a member of AICPA and NYSSCPA.

Ms. Kanekar has over 20 years of experience providing complex tax consulting, structuring and compliance services for hedge funds, private equity funds, and the investment strategies and products they employ. Prior to CIFC, she worked at credit focused investment firms, the Blackstone Group, Angelo Gordon, Cross Ocean Partners, and Silver Point. She specializes in credit, including distressed debt & special opportunities, and hedge/private equity asset classes. In addition, she has worked with public accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen, in senior positions. While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, she was awarded the Chairman’s Award for being a team lead for the design and development of the curriculum for Learning & Education – Structuring and Strategy: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds. Ms. Kanekar holds a B.Com degree from University of Pune, India, graduating first class with distinction.

Ms. Ewing has 35 years of experience in risk management, lending, and portfolio management. Ms. Ewing spent over 18 years at JPM where she began her banking career and where she received her credit training. At JPM, Ms. Ewing was a Vice President of Client Credit Management where she monitored clients’ credit quality, led the annual risk review process for select portfolio sub sectors, structured and negotiated new loans and amendments and coordinated credit infrastructure improvement projects. Ms. Ewing holds a B.A. in Business Economics and American History from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.