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Serhan Secmen

Senior Managing Director and Head of US CLO Investments and Global CLO Management, Napier Park Global Capital

  • Industry start
    2005
  • Year joined
    2008

Serhan Secmen is a senior managing director and head of US CLO investments and global CLO management at Napier Park Global Capital, a leading global alternative credit platform acquired by First Eagle Investments in 2022. Serhan has played a key role in developing the firm’s proprietary analytics systems and shaping strategies for analyzing CLOs and other structured products. He has been with Napier Park since its 2013 spinout from Citi Capital Advisors, which he joined in 2008. Earlier in his career, Serhan was a CLO trader at Lehman Brothers and a project manager in Texas focused on special-project financing. He has participated in investor roundtables hosted by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch Ratings, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Serhan earned a BS from Bogazici University in Turkey, an MS from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.