Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 1, 2015

Interview with the Co-President: CIFC Corp. (CIFC)

Steve Vaccaro
Steve Vaccaro is Co-President of CIFC Corp. and has 37 years of experience in corporate lending and asset management. He previously served as legacy CIFC’s Co-Chief Investment Officer and was named Chief Investment Officer of CIFC upon its merger with Deerfield Capital Corp. Mr. Vaccaro spent 25 years at JPM where he began his banking career and where he received his credit training. At JPM, Mr. Vaccaro's roles included Managing Director and Co-Head of the firm's media group. Mr. Vaccaro's experience at JPM also included merchant banking, including mezzanine and equity co-investing, and roles as a credit supervising officer in the bank's corporate banking department, member of the bank's credit audit group and Team Leader in the firm's land transportation and global automotive corporate lending groups. Mr. Vaccaro holds a B.A. in economics from Cornell University. Profile
TWST: What led to the formation of CIFC?

Mr. Vaccaro: CIFC was formed in late 2005 by a group of us who had worked for a number of years together at J.P. Morgan. The nonbank market for