Sam DeRosa-Farag

Mr. Sam DeRosa-Farag is a Managing Director & Portfolio Strategist at Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC.
Mr. DeRosa-Farag joined Morgan Creek in April 2009.
He has wealth of experience working as a strategist in the leveraged finance market and will be primarily responsible for leading Morgan Creek’s efforts in the credit sectors.
Prior to joining Morgan Creek, he was President of Ore Hill Partners LLC where he was a member of the Investment Committee.
While at Ore Hill, he was primarily responsible for new initiatives including structured products and risk management.
Prior to joining Ore Hill, he was a Managing Director of the Global Leveraged Finance Strategy and Portfolio Products Group and Co-Head of the High Yield Research Department of Credit Suisse.
He joined the firm from Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, which the firm acquired in November 2000, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Research.
Prior to joining DLJ in 1997, he was head of High Yield Portfolio and Strategic Research at Chase Securities.
He also developed and managed the High Yield Quantitative & Portfolio Strategies Group at CS First Boston, where he was employed for nine years.
Mr. DeRosa-Farag is a member of Institutional Investors All-American Fixed Income Research Team, ranked for Strategy and Economics from 1993 through 2007.
During this period, he was ranked 1 High Yield Strategist eleven years in a row.
Mr. DeRosa-Farag received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Cairo University.