Alfredo ("Dino") DeAngelis has over 25 years experience in corporate and structured finance across origination, structuring and trading as well as in restructuring and bankruptcy advisory and turnaround management. Alfredo also has significant expertise and experience in structuring and trading, having developed and traded numerous derivatives and structured finance products throughout his career. Prior to joining Gapstone, Alfredo was a Director at Merrill Lynch and head of a large structured finance principal business, including Emerging Markets Structured Finance and Infrastructure and where he was responsible for structuring and trading activity across its securities, direct lending, derivatives trading, and reinsurance platforms. Alfredo’s team was responsible for numerous landmark cross-border transactions such as the Nikkei Remittance (Banco do Brasil) transaction which was awarded the Deal of the Last 20 Years by Latin Finance. Alfredo had also been a founding member of Merrill Lynch’s Structured Credit Arbitrage group which focused on securitization and asset repackaging strategies, through its proprietary secutities, derivatives, direct lending, and reinsurance vehicles. Alfredo started at Merrill Lynch as a VP in its Structured Solutions Group, a cross-disciplinary team assembled by senior management to create innovative solutions for Merrill Lynch’s strategic clients around the globe. This group was responsible for numerous first-of-its kind transactions from which separate businesses were built. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1999, Alfredo was a Vice President of AIG Trading Group where he was a senior member of the Structured Transactions Group focusing on structured finance and derivative products in commodity and financial future flows and in debt restructurings in the Global Emerging Markets. While at AIG Trading Group, Alfredo spent a few years in Hong Kong including during the Asian crisis of 1997-8 developing hedging and capital financing products for distressed companies in the region. Alfredo joined AIG Trading Group as a quant to assist in developing a risk arbitrage trading desk for commodity, forex, and interest rate derivatives, which he became co-head. Prior to joining AIG Trading Group, Alfredo was a portfolio analyst with Fidelity Investments in the Global Bond Division where he ran asset allocation, security selection, and currency overlay strategies for its bond and balanced portfolios. Alfredo is a Certified Restructuring and Insolvency Advisor (CIRA) and also Certified in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV). Alfredo received his B.A. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T. and completed his requirements at M.I.T. for a PhD as a Research Fellow of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Alfredo has lived and worked in the USA, Asia, Europe and in the Middle East.
John J. McCormack has extensive experience (25+ years) covering Latin American and Caribbean corporates from a fixed-income perspective in a variety of industries, including bottling, construction, paper, and steel. From 1997 to 2009, he served as a Senior Managing Director for The Weston Group LLC, where he was involved in analyzing and implementing restructuring strategies for creditors and issuers in several Latin American restructurings, including Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo, Altos Hornos de Mexico (“AHMSA”), Consorcio G Grupo Dina, Bestel, the Sidek Creditor Trust, PYCSA Panama, S. A., Innovative Communication Corporation, Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation, and Cap Cana, S.A. Prior to joining Weston in 1997, he was an Equity Analyst for UBS Securities in New York specializing in the consumer sector, where he covered a variety of consumer-focused corporations in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile, including Cifra (currently Walmart de Mexico), Grupo Gigante, and Controladora Comercial Mexicana in Mexico as well as Pao de Acucar, Lojas Americanas, and Lojas Renner in Brazil. Mr. McCormack was a major source of valuation expertise in the Initial Public Offering of Disco, an Argentine retailer. From 1984 to 1993, he was Vice President in charge of Latin American Sales for Emerson Electric Co., marketing electromechanical power transmission products to industrial accounts in the region, including bottling plants, paper mills, oil refineries, and power plants. Mr. McCormack received his Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Columbia Business School in 1995 and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Mr. McCormack’s valuation expertise has been sought in several high profile legal cases involving Latin American corporations.
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