She also served on the firm’s Investment Committee. Most recently she served as Crestline Denali’s Managing Director and Chief Credit Officer where she was responsible for overseeing the firm’s entire credit function including new business underwriting and portfolio management. Before joining Churchill, Kelli spent eighteen years at Crestline Denali Capital, a CLO asset manager. Kelli Marti serves as Churchill’s Head of CLO Management and is responsible for the management and growth of Churchill’s middle market CLO platform, including day-to-day vehicle oversight, assisting in the sourcing of assets and trading strategy development, as well as participating in fundraising initiatives. Mat graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s dual degree program with a B.S., cum laude, in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A., honors, in International Relations from the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he has significant distressed debt experience both as an investor in the secondary market as well as through direct workouts of middle market loans. Mat has invested at all levels of the capital structure including senior secured loans, public and private mezzanine debt, as well as private equity co-investments. He also served as a vice president at Indosuez Capital, a middle market merchant banking and asset management business, where he worked closely with Churchill’s CEO, Ken Kencel. Previously, he was a credit portfolio manager at Loeb King Capital and Havens Advisors, as well as a senior vice president at Jefferies & Co. Mat is co-head of senior lending and oversees senior loan underwriting and portfolio management for Churchill Asset Management, an investment specialist of Nuveen. Jason graduated from Wake Forest University with two degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Analytical Finance and a Masters in Accounting, where he earned a scholarship for his graduate studies and passed the CPA examination. Prior to Weston Presidio, Jason worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Wachovia Securities, executing merger & acquisition transactions on behalf of private equity clients.
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Prior to Bison Capital, Jason was an investment professional at Weston Presidio, a Boston and San Francisco based middle market private equity firm focused on growth capital and leveraged buyout investing. Prior to joining Churchill, Jason was a Principal at Bison Capital, a Los Angeles based private equity firm focused on structured junior capital investments in lower middle market companies.
Jason is a member of the firm’s Operating Committee and is Investment Committee Chair for all six private equity and junior capital investment mandates, including limited partnership commitments to both buyout and growth equity markets, equity co-investments, structured capital investments, secondaries, and junior loan investments. Jason is responsible for leading all facets of the private equity and junior capital investment platform, including formulating and executing strategic initiatives, sourcing investment opportunities, firm management, and portfolio construction for six investment mandates that provide debt and equity capital into the U.S. He regularly appears as a guest commentator on private credit markets on Bloomberg, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ken was also a founder of the high yield finance business at Chase Securities (now JP Morgan Chase).
Prior to that he founded and was President and CEO of Churchill Financial Group, served as Head of Leveraged Finance for Royal Bank of Canada and was Head of Indosuez Capital, a leading middle market merchant banking and asset management business in partnership with Credit Agricole Group. (Carlyle’s publicly traded business development company). Previously, Ken served as a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, where he also served as President and a Director of TCG BDC, Inc. Throughout his over 35-year career in the investment industry, he has accrued a broad range of experience in leading private credit investment businesses. He also serves as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending, Inc., Churchill’s publicly registered business development company. Ken serves as President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management, an affiliate of Nuveen, the asset management arm of TIAA, a Fortune 100 financial services company.
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