Silar management team, pretty impressive.
Robert L. Leeds
rleeds@silarcapital.com
Senior MD, CEO
Prior to founding the Investment Manager, Mr. Leeds spent two years as a Managing Director at Drawbridge Special Opportunities, a Fortress Investment Fund. His primary responsibilities at Drawbridge included developing and implementing the Rediscount Lending Business. He joined Fortress in April of 2004 and was elected to the partnership in December of that year. Prior to his departure, Fortress had a built a successful rediscount lending business, having made loans and acquired assets in numerous asset classes including consumer, residential, and commercial areas. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Leeds was a Managing Director at Nomura Securities located in New York. His responsibilities included all areas of the residential whole loan trading business, including capital commitments, operations, and finance. Additionally, he spent a brief period running the ABS group. Under his leadership, Nomura built a profitable conduit that acquired and securitized over $25 billion in loans. Prior to joining Nomura, Mr. Leeds spent 13 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He spent his first 7 years in institutional sales covering regional dealers, money center banks, and mortgage banks. He spent his last 6 years at Goldman on the mortgage trading desk where he was active in capital commitments, pricing, and advising clients on multi-billion dollar loan transactions. Mr. Leeds graduated from Hamilton College in 1985. He resides in New York City with his wife and two children.
Gary S. Fragin
gary.fragin@silarcapital.com
MD, COO
Prior to joining the Investment Manager Mr. Gary S. Fragin has had a long career on Wall Street. He spent 16 years at Oppenheimer and Co. where he was a General Partner, Head of Trading, Executive VP and a member of the Executive and Management committees. Mr. Fragin served as a member of the Upstairs Traders Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. After leaving Oppenheimer he became a General Partner of Steinhardt Partners and COO and CAO of the Steinhardt Organization. Mr. Fragin also served as Managing Partner of Osborn Partners, and CEO of Fragin Asset Management, and is a member of the Ziopharm Oncology Board of Directors. He holds a BE from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Columbia.
Min Choi
mchoi@silarcapital.com
MD, Asset Valuation
Prior to joining the Investment Manager, Mr. Choi spent two years as a Vice President at Drawbridge Special Opportunities, a Fortress Investment fund. He was involved in all phases of the deal transactions with specialization on structuring transactions, building complex quantitative financial models and asset management. He combined his analytics and industry knowledge to create a comprehensive asset management tool, SAFE (www.safefundings.com). Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Choi was an associate at Nomura Securities located in New York. His responsibilities included developing valuation and management tools for the fixed income division. Mr. Choi brings an expertise in quantitative analytics/structuring and practical industry knowledge in various asset classes, gained through his academic and work experiences. Mr. Choi received a BS in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MS in Financial Engineering from New York University.
Gregory Fragin
greg.fragin@silarcapital.com
MD, Investor Relations, Legal Counsel
Prior to joining the Investment Manager, Mr. Fragin worked in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil Gotshal and Manges LLP from 2003 to 2006. He has extensive experience counseling debtors and creditors in complex transactions both in and out of chapter 11. His practice included analyzing debt and corporate structures as well as credit analysis. Mr. Fragin holds a JD from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a member of the New York State Bar as well as the Bar for the Southern District of New York
Jenelle Harrison
jharrison@silarcapital.com
Collateral and Cash Management
Jenelle Kanhai-Harrison joined Silar Advisors, LP with 10 years experience in the consumer lending industry. Mrs. Harrison came from Sterling Financial Services, a subsidiary of Sterling National Bank, where she was Senior Loan Administrator directly responsible for the monitoring of rediscount and borrowing based loans. She dealt directly with lenders with regards to fundings, collections, portfolio management and reconciliations. Jenelle is scheduled to receive her B.A in Business Administration from Pace University, in 2007.
Steve Yacubic
syacubic@silarcapital.com
Controller
Steven Yacubic joined Silar Advisors in March of 2007, bringing with him over 8 years of experience on Wall Street. Mr. Yacubic started his career in 1999 at Solomon Smith Barney, in their Managed Account Operations group. From there Mr. Yacubic spent 2 years at Lord Abbett & Co., as a Portfolio Administrator, where his responsibilities included all operational and accounting functions for multiple equity portfolios. The period between 2002 and 2004 were spent as a freelance operations and accounting consultant for various major investment banks in the New York area. In 2004 Mr. Yacubic joined Alternative Investment Solutions as an AVP in their accounting/administration group. While there Mr. Yacubic worked extensively with the following products; equities, all classes of fixed income, bank debt, options, F/X, futures, forwards, CDS, and Total Return Swaps. During his tenure there Mr. Yacubic supervised a group that was responsible for all back and middle office functionality for various hedge funds with collective A.U.M. of 1.2 billion dollars. Mr. Yacubic is a 1998 graduate from Oswego University, with a B.S. in Finance.
Rich Aquilone
raquilone@silarcapital.com
Director, Silar Mortgage, LLC
Mr. Aquilone joined Silar Advisors, LP to Co-head Silar Mortgage, LLC, focusing on the acquisition of Distressed Residential (Scratch & Dent) and Hard Money loans. Mr. Aquilone has over 10 years experience in the distressed residential mortgage industry having held Director positions at GRP Financial Services and UBS Investment Bank where he was responsible for the acquisition of Distressed Residential Loans. Mr. Aquilone holds a BS in Accounting from William Paterson University, a MS in Accounting from St. Peter’s College and an MBA in Business Management from St. Peter’s College.
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