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Jon Dorfman

Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer, Napier Park Global Capital


  • Industry start
    1984
  • Year joined
    2007

Jon Dorfman is managing principal and chief investment officer of Napier Park Global Capital, a leading global alternative credit platform and a First Eagle Investments company. Jon was a founding partner of Napier Park upon its 2013 spinout from Citi Capital Advisors (CCA), where he had been co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer. He joined CCA in 2007 when parent Citigroup acquired Carlton Hill Global Capital, the specialized asset management firm Jon co-founded in 2005. Previously, Jon spent 20 years in Morgan Stanley’s fixed income division in the US, Tokyo and London, holding numerous senior management positions including co-head of the global investment grade credit group and head of global credit derivative and asset swap trading group. An industry innovator, Jon served as an International Swaps and Derivatives Association committee member responsible for the first standardized credit default swap contract. Jon earned a BSE, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.