David Schiff
Founding Partner
Mr. Schiff has an over 25-year career developing and investing in private equity, credit and real estate markets while focused on creating value for investors in special situations, emergent asset classes, private credit and asset-based investments. He has a vast depth of knowledge, expertise and experience within the investment segment and is known for his highly creative, disciplined and risk-sensitive approach to investing. Since 2016, Mr. Schiff is a founding partner of Innovatus Capital Partners LLC, serves as CEO and is Chairman of the Investment Committee. [...] more
Andrew Dym
Founding Partner
Mr. Dym has an over 30-year career developing, assessing risk of, and investing in special situations, private equity, emerging asset classes, private credit, and asset-based investments across a wide variety of industries, asset classes, and situations. Since 2016, Mr. Dym is a Founding Partner of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, serves as President and Chief Risk Officer and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. [...] more
Andrew Hobson
Partner
Mr. Hobson has an over 30-year career. building and leading teams of finance executives that intensely focus on the imperative of value creation while working hand-in-glove with operating executives to solve problems, develop and execute on value creating strategies selflessly and creatively. He has deep experience in leading and structuring transactions in capital structures across varying economic cycles. Since 2016, Mr. Hobson is a Partner of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. He oversees all accounting and finance functions for the firm. [...] more
Joseph Schottland
Partner
Mr. Schottland has nearly two decades of experience as a trusted advisor and senior executive helping companies across multiple industry sectors and geographies develop company and business unit growth and survival strategies, drive commercial and operational performance improvement, and navigate comprehensive restructurings and workouts both in and out of court protection. [...] more
Ravi Bhagavatula
Partner
Mr. Bhagavatula has over twenty-five years of experience in deal sourcing, deal execution, asset management, operations consulting and C-level management. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in February 2019, Mr. Bhagavatula was a Founder and Managing Partner at Excelsior Capital Partners for eight years, a portfolio company of the Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Based Value Strategy that invests in distressed debt, special situations, and specialty lending across commercial real estate and operating companies. Together with David Schiff and Andy Dym, Mr. Bhagavautla evaluated and invested in over $1 billion of distressed and special situations at ABV. From 2007 to 2009, he served as a Managing Director in the Special Assets Group at Republic Financial Corporation, and from there, advanced to becoming a Principal at Marlin Equity Partners. [...] more
Amy Cohen
Head of Marketing and Investor Relations
Ms. Cohen has over twenty years of experience working in the capital markets in positions across marketing, investor relations, trading and structuring. Ms. Cohen’s strategy expertise spans credit (corporate, structured, distressed and asset-based), equities, converts and real assets. She has successfully raised assets for alternative investment managers in both private equity and hedge fund vehicles. She has a deep investor network across institutional, high net worth, family offices, pension and endowment/foundation investors. [...] more
Joseph Azulay
Mr. Azulay has 7 years of experience in accounting in the private equity and asset management industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in March 2019, Mr. Azulay was a Director at Hedgeserv, a global, independent fund administrator, primarily focused on private equity, credit, and listed equity funds. From 2012 to 2013, Mr. Azulay was a Senior Audit Assistant at Deloitte [...] more
Keith Bergen
Mr. Bergen has over twenty years of experience in the asset management industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in September 2018, Mr. Bergen held several positions including Controller of Alternative Investments at Third Avenue Management LLC, a registered investment adviser where he was responsible for all aspects of accounting and operations for the alternative funds business. [...] more
Georgia Carreira
Ms. Carreira has over 15+ years in commercial real estate asset management, acquisitions, and loan origination across core, core plus and value add real estate investments in all primary asset classes (retail, office, multi-family, industrial) for global institutions and private investors. [...] more
Michel Ciambra
Mr. Ciambra has over thirty years of experience in trade finance, EM direct lending, private debt, special situations and fixed income. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in June of 2017, Mr. Ciambra was a Managing Director at Cordiant Capital, where he focused on emerging markets direct lending and led the macro investment committee and all direct non IFI origianations. [...] more
Jim Curran
Mr. Curran has over ten years of experience in accounting for the real estate and private equity industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in February 2019, Mr. Curran held several accounting positions in real estate investment companies, most recently with GTIS Partners, where he oversaw several funds and separate account vehicles’ accounting and finance functions. In his role as Controller, he coordinated fund level audits and tax returns, [...] more
Claes Ekstrom
Mr. Ekstrom has over twenty years of experience in asset-backed investing, mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance across healthcare and various other industries. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in January of 2016, Mr. Ekstrom was a member of the Perella Weinberg Partners' Asset Based Value Strategy Investment Team, where he focused on corporate, healthcare and consumer opportunities. [...] more
Ana Firmato
Ms. Firmato has over twenty years experience in corporate finance, with a focus on international banking products. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners as a full time consultant in April 2019, Ms. Firmato was a Managing Director in the Brazil office of Crecera Trade Finance (Latam Trade Capital) and was responsible for origination, execution and restructuring commodity finance structures in the Brazilian market. [...] more
Talita Gonsales
Ms. Gonsales has 8 years experience in strategic and financial advisory business. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners in May 2019, Ms. Gonsales was a Senior Manager at KPMG Corporate Finance in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 2011 until April 2019. [...] more
Jeffrey Holland
Mr. Holland has over 15 years of financial services experience, the last 12 focused on direct investments in special situations and distressed debt. Prior to joining Innovatus in July 2019, Mr. Holland worked at Excelsior Capital Partners, a portfolio company of the Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Based Value Strategy that invests in distressed debt, special situations and specialty lending across commercial real estate and operating companies. [...] more
Sarah Kaplan
Ms. Kaplan has over 13 years of experience in accounting for the real estate, private equity, and insurance industries. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in January 2020, Ms. Kaplan held several accounting positions at notable firms including Aon, Elliott Management Corporation, and GreenOak Real Estate Advisors, LP, where she oversaw accounting functions as Assistant Controller and Management Company Accountant. [...] more
Amit Khasgiwala
Mr. Khasgiwala has over 7 years of experience across investment banking, equity research, and engineering in the medical technology, life science, and healthcare services sectors. Prior to joining Innovatus in September 2017, Mr. Khasgiwala worked Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the healthcare investment banking group. In this position he developed strategic materials and analyses [...] more
Ashley Lim
Ms. Lim has over 1o years of experience in investment banking and finance across healthcare and other industries. Prior to joining Innovatus in April 2020, Ms. Lim worked at RBC Capital Markets within the healthcare investment banking group. In this position she advised and executed a variety of projects and transactions in the life sciences and medical technology sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings [...] more
Joshua Little
Mr. Little has over ten years of experience across legal, strategic and business affairs relating to asset management. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in August 2016, Mr. Little held several positions including Senior Managing Director of Business & Legal Affairs at Third Avenue Management, a registered investment adviser, and Member of the Board of Directors [...] more
Andrew Pelekis
Mr. Pelekis has five years experience in the capital markets with the last two years as lead arranger, monitoring a private investment fund with EM focus. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners in June 2017, Mr. Pelekis was an Associate at Cordiant Capital from 2015 till June 2017. [...] more
Sydney Proze
Ms. Proze has over five years of experience in legal and compliance, across asset management and banking industries. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in April 2020, Ms. Proze was a Director in the legal and compliance division of Morgan Stanley. [...] more
Patrick Séguin
Mr. Séguin has three years of experience in the capital markets. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners LLC in September 2018, Mr. Séguin was part of the Project Finance team for Private Fixed Income Investments at Sun Life Investment Management. He also previously worked at RBC, where he was a contact point for multiple mutual fund and hedge fund clients; providing custody and back office services. [...] more
Bradley Seiden
Mr. Seiden has over twenty-four years of experience in commercial real estate acquisitions, recapitalizations and asset management across core-plus and opportunistic real estate investments amongst all property types including office, retail, industrial, warehouse, garden-style multi-family, residential condominiums, limited service hotel, full service hotel, resort hotels, on-mountain land development, self-storage, medical office buildings, NYC condo structures (office/retail), [...] more
Thomas Wasko
Mr. Wasko has four years of experience in commercial real estate debt and equity transactions across all product types including office, retail, industrial, multi-family, residential condominiums, and hotels[...] more
Alessandro Willberg
Mr. Willberg has over twelve years of experience in the capital markets with the last six years focused on corporate lending spanning the emerging and frontier markets with deal origination and structuring across non-investment grade corporate lending, project and infrastructure finance, and structured credit. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners in June 2017 [...] more