People: THL Credit Inc (TCRD.O)

TCRD.O on Nasdaq

15.49USD
20 May 2013
Price Change (% chg)

$-0.07 (-0.45%)
Prev Close
$15.56
Open
$15.53
Day's High
$15.63
Day's Low
$15.41
Volume
240,548
Avg. Vol
244,219
52-wk High
$16.08
52-wk Low
$12.20

Search Stocks

Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

James Hunt

60 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer

Sam Tillinghast

49 Co-President, Chief Risk Officer

W. Hunter Stropp

41 Co-President

Terrence Olson

45 Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Treasurer

Stephanie Sullivan

39 Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Secretary

Keith Hughes

65 2009 Lead Independent Director

David Downes

72 2009 Independent Director

Nancy Hawthorne

61 2009 Independent Director

John Sommers

73 2009 Independent Director

David Southwell

51 2009 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

James Hunt

Mr. James K. Hunt is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Hunt is also the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of THL Credit Advisors, the Company’s investment adviser. Since May 2007, Mr. Hunt has also been the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of THL Credit Group, L.P., an investment advisory firm affiliated with the Company. Mr. Hunt was Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Bison Capital which he co-founded in 2001. Previously, he was President of SunAmerica Corporate Finance and an Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Investments, Inc. (subsequently, AIG SunAmerica) through 2000. He was President and CEO of the Anchor Pathway Funds and SunAmerica Series Trust with assets exceeding $11 billion. Mr. Hunt joined SunAmerica in 1990 from the Davis Companies, a private equity investment firm, where he was responsible for acquisitions. Prior to that he worked at Citicorp for 14 years, where he held a leveraged lending, credit and finance positions, culminating in the role of Senior Credit Officer and Vice President / Area Head for the Far West U.S. leveraged lending group. At Citicorp, Mr. Hunt also had responsibilities for various workout transactions and the Western asset based lending group. Mr. Hunt serves on the board of directors of Lender Processing Services, Inc. (NYSE: LPS). Mr. Hunt is a former Chairman and member of the board of directors of Financial Pacific Leasing, LLC, formerly Lead Trustee for Falcon Financial (Nasdaq: FLCN), a former member of the boards of directors of Primus Guaranty Ltd, LLC. (NYSE: PRS), CLS Worldwide Services, LLC, GTS Holdings, Inc., Helinet Aviation Services, LLC, Metagenics, Inc., Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (NYSE: FIS) and Mobile Storage Group. Mr. Hunt earned his BBA in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Sam Tillinghast

Mr. Sam W. Tillinghast is Co-President, Chief Risk Officer of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Tillinghast is also the Co-President and Chief Risk Officer of THL Credit Advisors, the Company’s investment adviser, and Co-President of THL Credit Group, L.P., an investment advisory firm affiliated with the Company. Mr. Tillinghast was formerly the head of the Private Placement Group for AIG. Mr. Tillinghast joined AIG with the acquisition of SunAmerica Inc. in January 1999, and integrated the private debt investment groups of SunAmerica, AIG and American General (acquired by AIG in 2001). Mr. Tillinghast was responsible for the initiative to build a mezzanine and high-yield private placement team. By 2006, Mr. Tillinghast was responsible for a $28 billion private debt portfolio. While at SunAmerica, where he joined in 1988, Mr. Tillinghast was Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Corporate Finance and his investment experience included corporate bonds, securitizations, leveraged loans, CDOs, portfolio acquisitions, and equipment leasing. He is a board observer at Food Processing Holdings, LLC, and Charming Charlie, Inc., and a former member of the board of directors of Falcon Financial, LLC. Mr. Tillinghast received his BS in finance at the University of South Alabama and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

W. Hunter Stropp

Mr. W. Hunter Stropp is Co-President of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Stropp is also the Co-President of THL Credit Advisors, the Company’s investment adviser, and the Co-President of THL Credit Group, L.P., an investment advisory firm affiliated with the Company. Mr. Stropp served as a Vice President and Investment Manager in the Private Equity Group of GE Asset Management Inc. from 2000 to 2007. Mr. Stropp previously served in various investment and business development positions at Koch Industries, Inc. Mr. Stropp serves on the board of JDC Healthcare Management, LLC, is a board observer at OEM Group, Inc., and has served on the boards of directors of SiVance, LLC, Octane Fitness LLC, HB&G Building Products, Inc., Homegrown Natural Foods, Inc. and Coast Crane Company, Inc. Mr. Stropp began his career as a consultant at Arthur Anderson LLP. Mr. Stropp holds BA’s in economics and political science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Terrence Olson

Mr. Terrence W. Olson is Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Treasurer of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Olson is also the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of THL Credit Advisors, the Company’s investment adviser, and the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of THL Credit Group, L.P., an investment advisor affiliated with the Company. Prior to February 2008, Mr. Olson spent ten years at Highland Capital Partners, or Highland, a venture capital firm, where he served as Director of Finance and was responsible for the financial, tax and operational matters for Highland’s funds as well global activities in Europe and China. Before joining Highland, Mr. Olson was a Senior Manager at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he worked with public and private companies in the financial services and technology sectors between 1989 and 1998. Mr. Olson holds a BS in accounting from Boston College.

Stephanie Sullivan

Ms. Stephanie Pare Sullivan is Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Secretary of THL Credit Inc. Ms. Sullivan is also a Managing Director and the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of THL Credit Advisors, the Company’s investment adviser. Previously, Ms. Sullivan was a partner in the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP, where she worked from 1998 to 2010, primarily focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and the representation of early- and later-stage growth companies. She was also active in the firm’s mentoring and pro bono initiatives. Ms. Sullivan received her BA from Williams College and her JD from New York University School of Law.

Keith Hughes

Mr. Keith W. Hughes is Lead Independent Director of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Hughes has been a management consultant to domestic and international financial institutions since April 2001. He previously served as Vice Chairman of Citigroup Inc., a commercial banking firm, in New York City from November 2000 to April 2001. Additionally, his experience includes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Associates First Capital Corporation, a consumer and commercial finance firm, in Dallas from February 1995 through November 2000. He is a director of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., a financial industry technology and services provider. Mr. Hughes holds BS and MBA degrees from Miami University in Ohio.

David Downes

Mr. David K. Downes is an Independent Director of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Downes is currently the Independent Chairman of GSK Domestic Employee Benefit Trust (since 2006), the Chief Executive Officer and board member of Community Capital Management, an investment management company (since 2004), and the President of The Community Reinvestment Act Qualified Investment Fund, an investment management company; since 2004. From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Downes was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Lincoln National Investment Companies, Inc., a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation, and Delaware Investments U.S., Inc., an investment management subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation, President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Delaware Investment Family of Funds, President and Board Member of Lincoln National Convertible Securities Funds, Inc. and the Lincoln National Income Funds, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Retirement Financial Services, Inc., a registered transfer agent and investment adviser and a subsidiary of Delaware Investments U.S., Inc. From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Downes was President and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware Service Company, Inc. and from 1985 to 1992 held the roles of Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Vice Chairman and Director of Equitable Capital Management Corporation, an investment subsidiary of Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Downes was Corporate Controller of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. from 1977 to 1985. Prior to that, he held positions with Colonial Penn Group, Inc., and Price Waterhouse & Company. Mr. Downes was in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959. He currently serves as a director of Internet Capital Group, an information technology company (since October 2003); and oversees 64 portfolios as a trustee of various funds in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Downes has a BS from Pennsylvania State University.

Nancy Hawthorne

Ms. Nancy Hawthorne is an Independent Director of THL Credit Inc. Since August 2001, Ms. Hawthorne has served as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Clerestory LLC, a financial advisory and investment firm. Prior to that, from 1997 to 1998, Ms. Hawthorne served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Hawthorne, Krauss & Associates, LLC, a provider of consulting services to corporate management, and as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Continental Cablevision, a cable television company, from 1982 to 1997. Ms. Hawthorne also serves as a director for Avid Technologies, where she served as interim Chief Executive Officer from August 2007 through December 2007, is a director of the Metropolitan Series Fund, Inc., a family of mutual funds established by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and is on the Investment Committee at Wellesley College. Ms. Hawthorne has a BA from Wellesley College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John Sommers

Mr. John A. Sommers is an Independent Director of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Sommers is a Managing Principal of Income Research & Management, or IR&M, which he co-founded in 1987. IR&M is a fixed-income advisory firm for institutional and private clients, with $32 billion of assets under management. Prior to IR&M, he was Director of Fixed Income at the Putnam Companies, or Putnam (now Putnam Investments), an investment advisory firm, where he was responsible for over $20 billion in fixed income assets. Mr. Sommers joined Putnam in 1976 and actively managed fixed income portfolios until 1985, when he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Putnam Advisory Company, LLC, an investment advisory firm. Prior to his work at Putnam, Mr. Sommers was a Partner and Director of Fixed Income Sales and Trading at Loeb, Rhoades & Co., an investment banking and securities firm, and a Director at F.S. Smithers & Co., an investment banking firm, and an officer in the National Bank Division of the Irving Trust Company. Mr. Sommers has a BA from Bucknell University and an MBA from NYU.

David Southwell

Mr. David P. Southwell is an Independent Director of THL Credit Inc. Mr. Southwell is currently an Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. Mr. Southwell served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sepracor Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from October 1995 to May 2008, and served as its Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from July 1994 to October 1995. From August 1984 to July 1986 and from September 1988 until July 1994, Mr. Southwell was associated with Lehman Brothers, a financial-services firm, in various positions within the investment banking division, including in the position of Vice President. Mr. Southwell is also a director of PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, a director of Panel Intelligence LLC, a market research firm, a former director of Human Genome Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and serves on the Board Of Overseers of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Mr. Southwell has a BA from Rice University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Search Stocks