Robert S. Koenigsberger, Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Koenigsberger has over 20 years investment experience in emerging markets fixed income securities. Since 1998, he has been the Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Gramercy Advisors LLC. He is also a Director of Arco Capital Corporation Ltd. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers from 1995-1998 where he managed the Sovereign Debt restructuring business. He was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch from 1992-1995 where he traded emerging market debt securities in New York, London and Hong Kong. From 1987-1991, he was Vice President at CR-P Associates, a financial advisory firm with offices in Central and South America that was directly involved in sovereign debt restructurings, debt buy-backs, and debt-equity swap transactions in Latin America.
MBA in Finance at Wharton
MA in International Studies at University of Pennsylvania
BA in Political Science and History at University of California, San Diego
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Jay A. Johnston, Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Johnston has over 25 years investment experience in emerging markets fixed income, global fixed income as well as high yield and mortgage backed securities. He is a Co-Managing Partner of Gramercy since 1999 and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Arco Capital Corporation Ltd. Prior to joining Gramercy, Mr. Johnston was Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income Sales at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. from 1998 to 1999, where he was responsible for a 13-person sales group. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Johnston was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the Emerging Markets Group. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Johnston worked in institutional fixed income, emerging market and high yield sales at a variety of institutions including ING Baring Securities, Inc., Oppenheimer & Company, Inc. and Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. From 1983 to 1984, Mr. Johnston was a Portfolio Manager at Patterson Capital Corporation responsible for managing a $1.3 billion portfolio of mortgage backed securities for a variety of U.S. Savings and Loans.
BS in Finance at University of Florida (Honors)
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Scott G. Seaman, Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Seaman has over 23 years of business management experience. Prior to joining Gramercy in June 2002, Mr. Seaman was the Chief Operating and Financial Officer of J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management’s Hedge Funds Group and Real Estate Investment Group, from 1999-2002, with responsibility for business growth and operational integrity. Previously, during 1998 he was Manager of the Emerging Markets Strategic Planning Group at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. responsible for building a global office network. From 1992-1997, Mr. Seaman was head of Emerging Markets Business Analysis and Development, J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. where he was instrumental in building new products and managing a complex control structure. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc., he was a Vice President in the J.P. Morgan & Co., Audit Group where he specialized in management consulting to new and rapidly growing sales and trading businesses from 1986 to 1992. Prior to that, he was a Senior Audit Analyst at Ernst & Whinney from 1984-1986.
CPA
MBA in Finance at New York University – Stern Graduate School of Business
BS in Accounting at Long Island University - CW Post Center School of Professional Accountancy (Summa Cum Laude)
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Robert L. Rauch, Partner, Director of Research
Mr. Rauch oversees research and the corporate restructuring activities of Gramercy. He has been or is currently involved as a leading creditor or advisor in the restructuring of numerous companies in Asia and Latin America including Accel, Alestra, Asia Pulp and Paper, Dina, Durango, Essar Steel, Iusacell, Mechala, Medefin, San Luis, Satmex, SIDEK, Synkro, and Transtel. Prior to joining Gramercy in January 2001, Mr. Rauch worked as a consultant to hedge funds managed by Van Eck Global and Farallon Capital Management, specializing in the analysis of emerging markets special situations. From 1994-1999, he was President of The Weston Group, where he was responsible for overseeing the firm’s securities research and brokerage activities focusing on Latin America. Mr. Rauch also served as an advisor to various issuers and note holders in the restructuring of corporate debt arrangements, and was an advisor to Mexico’s VVA. In the early 1990s, Mr. Rauch worked as a Vice President with Lehman Brothers and CS First Boston in their emerging market fixed income trading groups. In the second half of the 1980s, he was a Vice President and trader with First Interstate Bank’s loan syndications group, where he was responsible for structuring and syndicating loan facilities to highly-leveraged American and Asian corporations. In 1980, he began his career with Swiss Bank Corporation in several credit and corporate finance roles.
MM in Finance and International Business at Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Management
BA in Political Economy at Williams College
Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute
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