Andrew Dym
Mr. Dym has an over 40-year career developing and investing in special situations, private equity, emerging asset classes, private credit, and asset-based investments across a wide variety of asset classes. Mr. Dym’s experience spans asset management, principal investing, lending, rating agency, and financial guaranty industries. His vast asset experience and knowledge includes a broad and diversified range of consumer and commercial asset classes and securities, cash flow streams, and operating businesses with a focus in the asset-based lending and specialty finance spaces.
As Chief Risk Officer and member of the Innovatus Investment Committee, Mr. Dym reviews and analyzes all proposed investments across all strategies ensuring adherence to the firm’s philosophy and investment strategy. He further has responsibility for managing the liability side of the balance sheet; chairing relationships with rating agencies, investment banks, and other financial institutions to structure and execute the most efficient investment structures. Mr. Dym utilizes his deep industry network within the financial and asset management community to source investments for the Fund. As CRO, he is also responsible for surveillance of the underlying positions of the portfolio, ensuring risk parameters are met and investment results are consistent with the investment thesis. Mr. Dym also leads firm wide efforts regarding recruiting, compensation of staff, and diversity initiatives.
From 2008-2016, Mr. Dym was a Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners in its Asset Based Value Strategy. In this role he worked closely alongside David Schiff, the Partner, Co-Founder, and Portfolio Manager of the Manager, in originating, structuring, and negotiating investments in several start-up and early-stage operating businesses, specialty finance and fintech platforms, and in a variety of asset-based risk positions. From 2005-2008, Mr. Dym served as Global Head of Structured Finance and Capital Markets and Member of the Executive Committee of financial guarantor, CIFG Services Inc. From 1994-2005 Mr. Dym held senior management positions at JPMorgan Securities, including Group Co-Head for North American Term Asset-Backed Securities, Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Conduits, and Principal Investments. From 1992-1994, he was a member of the Asset Finance Group at financial guarantor, Financial Security Assurance where he was responsible for originating, structuring, and analyzing various structured principal finance opportunities. From 1987-1992, Mr. Dym was an early member of the Asset-Backed Securities Group at Standard & Poor’s Rating Agency where he was responsible for (i) the research and publishing of rating criteria for many of the first securitized asset classes, (ii) the assignment of ratings on debt securities secured by a variety of consumer and commercial asset classes, and (iii) the ongoing monitoring and surveillance of outstanding ratings assigned by the Group.
Mr. Dym serves on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies including FCA HoldCo LLC (national independent auto finance platform), CarFinance.com LLC (consumer fintech platform), Excelsior Capital Partners (investor in commercial and industrial loans and pools of small balance commercial real estate loans), and Guerdon LLC (modular construction business).
Mr. Dym received a B.S., Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany, and holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dym was previously licensed to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in New York State.