Credit: Manager Investment Insights

Moderator

Jeremy Bailys

Senior Director, Credit Investments

Jeremy Bailys is a Senior Director at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments Holding USA LLC). He joined the organization in August 2022 in the New York office. His primary responsibilities include origination, execution of investments and portfolio management.

Prior to joining PSP Investments, he spent 8 years at The Carlyle Group, where he was most recently a Principal in the Global Credit Group, and was responsible for structuring, financing and executing leveraged finance transactions for middle market financial sponsors. Prior to that, Jeremy began his career in investment banking at Wells Fargo Securities.

He holds a BSc and a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida.

Panelists

Megan Messina

Managing Director and Head of CLO Capital Markets

Ms. Messina leads Oaktree’s CLO capital markets efforts and is a managing director for the U.S. Senior Loans strategy.  Prior to joining the firm in 2022, Ms. Messina was a director and senior portfolio strategist at Symphony Asset Management where she led the development and distribution of the structured credit platform both internally and externally.  Prior thereto, Ms. Messina was a managing director and the Co-Head of Global Structured Credit Products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and before that was a director at Citi for their global CLO business.  In these roles, Ms. Messina oversaw primary issuance, secondary trading, and credit financing businesses in New York and London and was responsible for pitching, pricing and managing client relationships.  Additional investment experience includes roles at Citi as a director in Credit Derivatives trading, Salomon Smith Barney in their Retail Credit Markets group and in retail sales within the Taxable Fixed Income department at PaineWebber, Inc.  Ms. Messina received a B.A. degree from Fordham University.

Chris Moon

Managing Director, Credit

Chris Moon is a Managing Director, Credit at DigitalBridge Investment Management.  Mr. Moon is responsible for origination in the Americas and European regions and has over 20 years of experience in the Communications and Technology sectors including over 15 years of direct experience in sourcing transactions in digital infrastructure.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Moon was a Managing Director and founding member of the TMT Sector Lending Group at ING Bank and had responsibility for origination, structuring and underwriting leveraged transactions in North America and LatAm. Prior to ING, Chris was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division and a CPA at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Communications and Technology practice.

Mr. Moon received an MBA and MS in Tax and a dual Bachelor of Science in Finance and Computer Information Systems from Northeastern University. He is a CFA Charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Allison Pistone

Managing Director

Ms. Pistone is a Managing Director on the Real Estate Private Credit team.

Prior to joining Cerberus in 2020, Ms. Pistone spent six years at AllianceBernstein, where she was responsible for loan origination for the Commercial Real Estate Debt Fund. Ms. Pistone began her real estate investing career as an associate in the Real Estate Capital Markets Group at Barclays Capital.

Ms. Pistone graduated from Boston College and received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Merle Smith

Director

Merle Smith is a Director on the Investment Team. Prior to joining Brightwood, he was a Vice President and founding member of BNP’s Distressed Credit Trading Group, focusing on creating and sourcing investments in distressed debt both on the secondary and primary markets. Prior to this role Merle was a member of BNP’s Leveraged Finance Group where he focused on the execution of debt transactions for sponsor-backed private companies and large publicly held corporations. Merle began his career in middle market commercial banking working as an underwriter for several regional banks around New England. He graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor’s degree majoring in Political Science.