Michael A. Herzig
Managing Director

Mr. Herzig is a Managing Director in the Alternative Credit Strategies Group with responsibilities that include marketing and client service. In this capacity, he will also help direct the Product Development and Strategy Committee, which is charged with developing new fund products for the institutional market, and serve on the Company’s Management Committee. He has twenty years of investment industry experience. Prior to joining McDonnell in February of 2008, Mr. Herzig was a Managing Director and the Co-Head of Deutsche Bank’s (DB) CDO business in the Americas. In this role, he had oversight responsibilities for DB’s CLO underwriting and product placement, the hedging and risk management of its leveraged loan warehouse lines and also served as DB’s representative on the board of the Loan Securities Trading Association. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 1999, Mr. Herzig spent nine years at Merrill Lynch, where he was a senior marketer of structured credit and interest rate derivative products to institutional investors in the United States. In this position, he was instrumental in the marketing and education process for a variety of new product initiatives targeting the life insurance industry. Mr. Herzig received his B.A. in International Business and French from Lehigh University, graduating with honors.