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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Roman Rjanikov | Portfolio Manager | 2020 | Now |
Biography | Roman Rjanikov is co-Portfolio Manager of Polen Capital's U.S. High Yield, ESG Upper Tier and CLO Strategies. Roman originally joined DDJ Capital in 2007, which was subsequently acquired by Polen Capital in 2022. Prior to 2007, Roman spent four years as an Equity Research Analyst at MFS Investment Management where he covered a variety of industries. Prior to that, Roman served as a Senior Financial Analyst at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he spent six years in several office locations across the U.S., Switzerland, and Russia. Roman received an M. Sc. in Finance and Accounting from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and an M.B.A. (with distinction) from Harvard Business School. | ||
David J. Breazzano | Co-Founder | 2020 | Now |
Biography | David Breazzano is Head of Team for Credit at Polen Capital, where he serves as co-Portfolio Manager of the U.S. Opportunistic High Yield and U.S. High Yield strategies. In 1996, David co-founded DDJ Capital, where he built the boutique firm into a premier credit manager focused on high yield and special situation investing. In 2022, Polen Capital acquired DDJ Capital, which launched the firm’s Credit capabilities. Previously, David was Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments in the High Income group, where he directed the investment management of high yield and distressed assets. Prior to that, David spent five years at T. Rowe Price as a high yield analyst and portfolio manager. David earned his B.A. in political science and economics from Union College and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. David serves on the Board of Trustees of Union College and is an Emeritus Trustee at Cornell University. | ||
Michael Kirkpatrick | Vice President and Co-Head of Research | 2013 | 2020 |
Biography | Mike serves as a senior portfolio manager with lead portfolio management responsibility for the High Quality High Yield Strategy and the Full Market High Yield Strategy. Mike joined the firm as a leveraged finance research analyst covering financials and has been a senior portfolio manager of the firm since 2007. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Mike was a senior analyst with Oppenheimer Funds, Inc., covering the telecommunications and cable industries. He was previously vice president and co-head of research at BNY Capital Markets, Inc., where he held responsibility for the telecommunications and consumer related industries. Prior to that he was at Mendham Capital Group as a managing partner in high yield research, where he focused on consumer-related industries. Mike received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware, School of Engineering and an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University. | ||
James Fitzpatrick | founding Principal, Senior Portfolio Manager | 2011 | 2020 |
Biography | James Fitzpatrick is the founding principal of Princeton Capital. He has a long, rich history in investment management with a number of major institutions. Prior to founding the Firm, Jim served as Director of Investments for the YMCA Retirement Fund, where he managed over $1 billion in fund assets. He began his career as afinancial economist at Moody's Investors Services, and thereafter managed assets at Lionel D. Edie and Co., Citicorp -Pension Trust Department, and Smith Barney & Co. He has also been an advisor to several venture capital partnerships. Jim earned a BAin Economics from The College of William and Mary, and completed the curriculum requirements for his PhD degree in Economics at Columbia University. |
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