Michael Gatto

Biography

Mr. Gatto was one of the first employees of Silver Point and helped grow the business from $120MM of assets under management in 2002 to approximately $8.5 billion currently.  Silver Point was ranked the #1 and #2 hedge fund in Institutional Investor’ Alpha: The Hedge Fund Report Card in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

After joining the Firm in April 2002, he became the Firm’s first non-founding partner in January 2003. Mr. Gatto helped build out and runs several businesses for Silver Point. Today, he is the head of the Firm’s Restructuring group, where he oversees a team responsible for driving and negotiating in and out-of-court corporate restructurings, the head of the Firm’s C&I business, which engages in purchasing distressed loans backed by hard real estate assets and the head of Silver Point’s principal lending business which focuses on lending to middle market companies. Prior to joining Silver Point, Mr. Gatto worked at Goldman Sachs as a senior member within the Special Situations Investing Business, specializing in investing in debt of distressed companies. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Gatto designed and taught credit training programs for loan officers of North American and European Financial Institutions. Prior to this, he was a loan officer and director of Global New Entry Training at Citibank. Mr. Gatto received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Economics. He is also a CFA Charterholder and has served on several Boards, which have included specialty retailer Party City, and most currently a board member of New Cotai Holdings, a Macau gaming company and Chairman of the Board of Quinn Industries an Irish Industrial company.

Teaching

Spring 2018

Distressed Value Investing (MBA)

Spring 2017

Distressed Value Investing (MBA)

Spring 2016

Distressed Value Investing (MBA)