CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Jack Ross
Principal & Co-Founder, Waterfall Asset Management
Jack Ross is a Principal of Waterfall Asset Management. Mr. Ross has more than 28 years of experience in the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) industry and helped pioneer the ABS market during the 1980's and 1990's. He structured some of the earliest asset securitizations while at Drexel Burnham Lambert and later co-founded Merrill Lynch's ABS Group. Mr. Ross subsequently managed International Real Estate Debt at Merrill Lynch and later founded Licent Capital, a specialty broker/dealer for intellectual property securitization. Mr. Ross began his career as a CPA with Laventhol & Horwath and received a B.S. from the University of Buffalo in 1978 and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
Waterfall Asset Management, LLC is a specialty credit manager founded in 2005. Waterfall's strategies focus on the opportunities in distressed high-yield asset-backed securities as well as residential and small balance commercial mortgage non-performing loans. As of 12/31/13, Waterfall had $2.8 billion of assets under management spread across various comingled funds and separately managed accounts.
