Tom was a founding partner of GoldenTree Asset Management in 2000 (“GoldenTree”) who from 2009 to 2014 was co-head of the business that managed the firm’s CLOs and separately managed accounts focused on leveraged loans which aggregated approximately $4.5 billion. In addition to portfolio construction and management, Tom was responsible for managing a team of analysts dedicated to the bank loan business and was integrally involved in the marketing effort related to obtaining new loan SMA mandates and the issuance of new CLOs. From the second half of 2012 through the end of 2013, Tom assisted with the management of the investment research function in GoldenTree’s London office. In 2014, Tom assumed industry coverage for investments across all parts of the capital structure in companies in the retail industry. He further served as a mentor to the firm’s investment research staff working to further enhance the professional development of the firm’s research analyst ranks. Tom was also integrally involved in the marketing of all of the firm’s investment products to investors globally. At the firm’s inception, Tom was responsible for investments in a large number of industries including gaming, lodging & leisure, auto supply, consumer products, retail, restaurants, food, movie exhibition and building products and was also previously responsible for the firm’s direct investments in companies with limited access to traditional financing markets. Tom was a member of the firm’s Cyclical Group since that group’s formation, having previously been responsible for the firm’s investments in the automobile, truck manufacturing and truck parts industries.
Prior to joining GoldenTree in 2000, Tom was at Bear Stearns for 16 years. As a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s High Yield Bond Department, he covered companies in the gaming, lodging, restaurant and leisure industries as well as companies in the auto supply and capital equipment industries. Tom was a member of the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed-Income Research Poll team of gaming analysts for the five years prior to joining GoldenTree, occupying the Second Team position. Tom spent his first eight years at Bear Stearns in the Corporate Finance Department before joining the High Yield Bond Department in 1992.
Tom received a B.S. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and an M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1984.