CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Christopher Pucillo
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Solus Alternative Asset Management
Christopher Pucillo founded Solus Alternative Asset Management in July 2007. Solus replaced Stanfield Capital Partners as investment manager of its hedge fund portfolios, which had been managed by Mr. Pucillo since January 2002. Mr. Pucillo joined Stanfield in 2000 as head of trading, became a portfolio manager in 2002, and became head of hedge fund strategies in 2004. Prior to joining Stanfield, Mr. Pucillo was with Morgan Stanley from 1996 until 2000. While at Morgan Stanley he acted as Head of High Yield Loan Trading and was instrumental in launching their leveraged loan effort. Mr. Pucillo was one of the four founding members of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (1995) and served as an Executive Committee Member until 2000. Mr. Pucillo began his career at Bankers Trust where he was responsible for the structuring and negotiation of leveraged buyouts. In 1993, he helped establish BT Securities' high yield loan trading business. 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.
