Mike Cassetta

Michael Cassetta has 20 years of experience investing across the capital structure. He most recently ran non-sponsor originations and capital markets activity for the private credit funds of AllianceBernstein. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein, Mr. Cassetta was a Managing Director and Investment Committee member of Gordon Brothers Finance Company (which was the largest portfolio company of BKC), where he sourced and structured several private debt transactions and managed a liquid portfolio of bank loans and bonds. Prior to Gordon Brothers Finance Company, Mr. Cassetta ran a special situations-oriented portfolio at Citadel, and, prior to that, he was a member of the distressed debt group at Davidson Kempner.  In both roles, he sourced, analyzed and invested in various debt and equity special situations. Prior to business school, Mr. Cassetta worked in private equity at Heartland Industrial Partners, where he worked closely with two platform investments on strategy, financing and acquisition programs and began his career in the Acquisition Finance group at Chase Securities (predecessor to JPMorgan Chase) focusing on financing solutions for financial sponsors.

Mr. Cassetta received his B.S. in Accounting from Bentley University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with honors.