New York Forum 2024

Ms. Benza serves as Investment Manager for the General Electric Pension focused on the private markets. She previously worked for Abbott Capital, where she was most recently a Principal and a member of the Investment Committee. Before joining Abbott, she was a Vice President with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, an Associate with THL Partners, and a Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst with Merrill Lynch. Ms. Benza received a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from NYU Stern and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Thomas Cockburn is Senior Director, Corporate Credit at CDPQ. Mr. Cockburn has responsibility over origination and execution of private credit opportunities in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, he is engaged in the development and monitoring of the private debt investment strategy and portfolio.

Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Cockburn worked for Power Corporation of Canada, a diversified holding company with a focus on financial services, where he was responsible for mergers & acquisitions as well as corporate finance activities for the holding’s portfolio companies. Prior to this, he spent 8 years at GE Capital, successively in real estate M&A and in leveraged finance roles. During his tenure at the company, he was involved in the creation of Mubadala GE Capital, a structured finance joint venture between Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala and GE Capital. He later joined Mubadala GE Capital’s investments team as a Vice-President and was responsible for executing leveraged and structured finance transactions in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to his time at GE Capital, he started his career in investment banking at Desjardins Securities.

Mr. Cockburn holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science - Finance, both from HEC Montréal.

Anna Dayn is a Managing Director and US head of New End, a family-office-anchored strategic advisory and capital formation firm in private markets. At New End, Anna partners and invests in high-growth companies, sponsors and investment platforms to provide business development and access to institutional capital.

Anna has over 20 years' experience in funding, designing and implementing private equity investment programs. Before New End, Anna established the North American platform of XTP, a leading cost analysis platform serving institutional investors. Anna previously served as the head of Private Equity at Cardano, a UK pension consultancy, where she oversaw a private equity program spanning $2bn of invested capital. Prior to that, Anna worked at Capital Dynamics and NM Rothschild.

Anna has served on the limited partner advisory boards of several private equity funds across North America and Europe, is a published author, media commentator, and a frequently featured speaker at investment industry conferences. She sits on the Executive Board of WAVE, the Women’s Association for Venture and Equity, and serves on the New York Steering Committee for PEWIN, the Private Equity Women’s Investor Network.
Anna received an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences, both at the University of Pennsylvania.

New End is a global institution that underwrites and invests principal capital in the opportunities originated by the team. Core activities extend to private equity, private debt, and real assets. New End partners and invests alongside asset managers, providing valuable support on strategic initiatives, including new step-out offerings and capital raising. New End has helped launch numerous first-time teams and supports emerging and established managers with capital formation and business development.

New End is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Montreal, Zurich, Paris, and Milan.

Mr. Griffin founded MGG Investment Group and is the Managing Partner, CEO and CIO of the firm. In this capacity, Mr. Griffin is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm, including the investment process from origination through portfolio monitoring as well as the strategic vision for the firm.

Mr. Griffin has experience in every industry and has been investing across the capital structure for multiple decades and through several financial cycles at all times with a focus on premium risk adjusted returns. Post investment, he remains active on numerous boards of directors, currently including KLDiscovery, (NYSE: KLDI), XL Fleet (NYSE: XL), Tastes on the Fly, and GenCanna Acquisition Corp.

Prior to launching MGG, Mr. Griffin was a Managing Director with Highbridge Principal Strategies (now HPS Partners), where he was a senior member of the Specialty Lending Platform and a member of the Highbridge Credit Committee. In addition, Mr. Griffin was part of Fortress Investment Group in charge of originating and underwriting investment opportunities for the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund. His experience also includes the Head of Private Investing for Octavian Funds, American Capital, (one of the first publicly traded BDC’s), and at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin’s Investment Banking Division.

The M&A Advisor in May 2015 named Mr. Griffin a winner of its 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders Award. The Hedge Fund Journal, in association with Ernst & Young, in December 2016 named Mr. Griffin one of 50 “Tomorrow’s Titans.”

Mr. Griffin earned his BSBA in Finance from Georgetown University and currently sits on the McDonough School of Business Board of Advisors.

Vincent Indelicato is the Global Co-Head of Restructuring and a Partner in the Corporate Department of Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm.

Over the last decade, Vincent has played a lead role on some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases in the United States, including Caesars Entertainment, Westinghouse Electric, MF Global and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

He currently serves as lead restructuring counsel to the National Basketball Association and thirteen of its member teams in the high-profile chapter 11 cases of Diamond Sports, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and actively represents some of the largest private credit managers in the world, including, Apollo, Ares, Benefit Street, Blue Owl and KKR.

Amir Madden is Senior Portfolio Manager on the Alternative Credits team at APG Asset Management US. He has over 25 years of investment experience. Amir is currently responsible for the selection and monitoring of external managers with a focus on the US markets. Before joining APG US, Amir Madden was a Portfolio Manager and Investment Committee Member at GAM USA working on the Alternative Investments Solutions (AIS) team. His responsibilities include overseeing private credit, event driven and US equity investments and managing both diversified and strategy focused portfolios for clients. Prior to joining GAM in August 2002, he spent two years at JP Morgan Private Bank in the multi-manager investment advisory group performing manager due diligence, having previously worked at Jennison Associates LLC. Amir Madden holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from Hofstra University and a BBA in International Finance and Marketing from the University of Miami. He is based in New York.

APG is one of the largest pension services providers in the Netherlands. APG manages €569 (year-end 2023) on behalf of Dutch pension fund clients, investing globally in the public and private markets. As a long-term investor, APG aims to achieve both financial and societal returns for the funds served so that their 4.6 million participants can enjoy a good pension in a livable world. APG has offices in Amsterdam, Heerlen, and Brussels, and asset management subsidiaries in New York (APG US), Hong Kong and Singapore (APG Asia).

Kevin Magid is President of Audax Private Debt, a leading debt capital partner based in New York. He joined Audax Group in 2000 and established and has led Audax Private Debt since its inception. Kevin is responsible for overseeing all facets of Audax’ debt business, including origination, underwriting, and portfolio management as well as setting the business’ strategic direction. For over 37 years, Kevin has invested in or raised senior debt, high yield debt, junior debt and equity financing for companies and private equity sponsors in a wide range of industries.

Prior to joining Audax Private Debt, Kevin spent over 13 years as a leveraged finance professional and served as a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance/Merchant Banking Group of CIBC World Markets Corp. Kevin started his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and also worked at Wasserstein Perella and Kidder Peabody, principally in a leveraged finance role.

Kevin received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.

Doug Porter joined Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) in 2012 and is a Managing Director and Head of Alternative Credit. Doug is responsible for the Alternative Credit portfolio design and implementation of making private credit fund investments and co-investments across the direct lending, infrastructure debt, commercial real estate debt, asset-based lending, and specialty finance sectors. Prior to joining MainePERS, Doug worked for three years in portfolio management at Acadia Trust. He holds a B.S. from the College of Charleston Honors College and an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson. He is also a CFA Charterholder.

Archit joined IMCO in 2021 and is a Portfolio Manager within Global Credit. Archit has over 8 years of credit experience investing across leveraged loans, private debt, high yield bonds, and investment grade. Prior to joining IMCO, Archit worked as a Senior Principal in the private debt team at British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) where he was responsible for underwriting and executing leveraged loan transactions. Archit holds an MBA from York University’s Schulich School of Business, BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Gabriel Yomi Dabiri leads Polsinelli’s national Private Credit and Cross-Border Finance practice. Gabriel also serves as Office Managing Partner of Polsinelli’s New York office.

Gabriel advises lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on senior, mezzanine and subordinated loans, unitranche facilities, first lien/second lien facilities, and cash flow, ABL, subscription line and capital call facilities. Gabriel also negotiates complex intercreditor and subordination arrangements on behalf of his clients and supports clients on various debt restructurings and bankruptcies, including negotiating debtor-in-possession facilities and advising clients in connection with sovereign-debt crises. He leverages his market expertise in both “buy-and-hold” credit strategies and broadly syndicated finance transactions to guide clients on a variety of deals, from the routine to cutting edge.

Gabriel is dual-qualified, admitted to practice law as an attorney in New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales, and has deep and extensive experience supporting clients on sophisticated cross-border deals.

Prior to joining Polsinelli, Gabriel worked for a Magic Circle law firm in London, Singapore and New York, advising clients on domestic and cross-border capital markets and banking and finance transactions, and for leading global law firms in Manhattan, advising premier international financial institutions and corporate borrowers on upper middle and middle market leveraged finance deals.