Investment Opportunities & Working Capital Solutions in Time of Crisis
Join us for a panel on Investment Opportunities & Working Capital Solutions in Time of Crisis to learn from our expert panelists while they provide an overview of what they are seeing today as we are move through the early stages of the impact from COVID-19. Each of the panelists will have an opportunity to speak about their strategy, performance expectations and their teams while they discuss their observations surrounding today's current events. Each panelist will provide investors and asset class managers with insight into their thought processes around risk mitigation and potential opportunity coming out of the current environment. As the dust begins to settle in their respective niches, our experts that have a long track record in the following areas of Trade Finance, Distressed Asset Management, Merchant Cash Advance, Medical Receivable Litigation Finance will talk about how they are thinking about capturing the opportunities.
- What is the maximum gain / loss that can be reasonably expected on your existing investments?
- What are the chances of reaching either extreme?
- How will interest rates affect the investment performance?
- How will this economic downturn affect investment performance?
- How will this current market environment impact your business and your investing opportunities?
- How do you find distressed debt opportunities?
- How do you extract value when banks or traditional lenders cannot?
- What's your main risk in this economic turmoil?
- How does/will the Coronavirus affect this strategy?
- How much capital can be managed in this strategy?
Event Recording
Investment Opportunities & Working Capital Solutions
Speakers
Shalako Wiener
- Title
- Client Sourcing and Finance, Legal and Risk Management @
- Company
- BankUnited
- Role
- Moderator
Shalako has extensive experience in C&I banking, Alternative Finance, Corresponding Banking, consumer product, legal, medical and fintech services industries in the US, Europe and Latin America. He is dedicated to leading teams, sourcing business from existing clients and new client acquisition. He has held senior leadership roles catering to corporate clients across industries and advising clients on various corporate and investment banking products in large firms (BankUnited, Sabadell, Mercantil). Expert in creating the best cost and time efficiencies structures through around companies cash conversion cycles. Solid knowledge of international business law, trade finance, corporate finance, credit risk, portfolio growth and management, budget and process optimization, and new market development.
Elliot Goldberg
- Title
- President @
- Company
- 1931 Funding LLC
- Role
- Panelist
Manager and Owner of 1931 Funding, LLC and an independent Registered Investment Advisor. Elliot was born in New York City in 1952 and grew up in Rockland County, New York. He Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1974 with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. After college, Mr. Goldberg worked for General Electric in New York City as a software systems analyst and then for Alexander and Alexander, an insurance brokerage firm, as a database development analyst. Mr. Goldberg started Goldata Information Services, Inc., a computer consulting firm, in 1975. He married in 1980 and moved to the western suburbs of Philadelphia, founded Goldata Computer Services, Inc. and built it into a successful computer software company. In 2004, Mr. Goldberg started managing third-party assets in addition to his own focusing on helping clients meet their financial goals. In 2009, he diversified into alternative investments. He currently lives and works in Gladwyne, PA and is married with 2 children and 2 grandchildren.
Rafael Serrano
- Title
- Managing Director @
- Company
- Safe Harbor Equiity
- Role
- Panelist
Rafael Serrano is the managing director of Safe Harbor Equity He has managed hundreds of transactions involving a variety of performing and non performing commercial and residential mortgage loans, defaulted debt instruments, and distressed real estate assets. From 2001 to 2005 Mr Serrano served as a business management and strategic consultant to British Aerospace Systems (BAE Systems, Inc with responsibilities throughout South America. Prior, he served as a Corporate National Accounts Manager with WorldCom, Inc. From 1992 to 1999 he was the founder and CEO of MTU a provider of commercial vehicle fleet servicing and maintenance. Throughout his professional career, Mr Serrano has been an active participant in the acquisition, development and reposition of residential and commercial real estate properties He attended Florida International University.
Michael Griffin
- Title
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer @
- Company
- HedgeAct
- Role
- Panelist
Michael E. Griffin has held executive level positions in the alternative investment management industry for the past 30 years. As the founder and CEO of HedgeACT, he is actively involved in the sourcing, research and due diligence of niche alternative strategies for the firm's wealth management clients. As an executive director for a British merchant bank hedge fund subsidiary, Michael was responsible for investor relations, operations, credit, finance and sourcing over $750 million in investor capital deployed in a fixed income arbitrage strategy. Leveraging his knowledge and experience, Michael subsequently founded a hedge fund administration firm which administered $35 billion in assets across more than 300 hedge and private equity fund clients.Michael's experience and deep understanding of alternative fund strategies, structures and operations give him a unique perspective in building unique alpha generating products.
Enrique Musi
- Title
- Business Strategist and US Markets Developer @
- Company
- eFactor Network
- Role
- Panelist
An economist with more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry.His career started in Banco de México in Macroeconomic Analysis. After that, he moved to international corporative and investment banking, like Citibank, Bank of America, and Barclays Capital, where he reached positions of Managing Director. He has launched other businesses in the industrial branch of the beverage sector. He has also worked as an economic advisor and consultant for Mexican Multinational companies, like Grupo Alfa and Cemex USA. For the past year, he has advised and assessed the general administration of E Factor Network for their expansion towards the United States.
About
Safe Harbor Equiity
Safe Harbor Equity is an opportunistic private equity firm that strategically acquires, originates, manages and repositions performing and nonperforming asset-backed real estate mortgages up to $20 million.
With a proven track record of success navigating the complexities of the distressed debt space, Safe Harbor Equity seeks to preserve investor capital while targeting IRR’s of 20% or higher by leveraging highly sophisticated, bleeding-edge analytical techniques, coupled with decades of collective experience, to provide its investors superior returns that are uncorrelated with market volatility.
Leveraging its extensive contacts in the secondary markets for residential and commercial real estate loans; the investment banking and private equity communities, and the commercial and residential real estate sectors in general, Safe Harbor Equity leverages its extensive network to source deals and seize upon unique opportunities wherever they may arise.
BankUnited
BankUnited, N.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BankUnited, Inc., is one of the largest independent depository institutions headquartered in Florida, providing a broad range of consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. BankUnited operates convenient banking centers throughout Florida and New York, along with 24-hour digital access. As of December 31, 2020, BankUnited N.A. has $35 billion in total assets.
HedgeAct
HedgeACT is an investment platform that provides institutions, family offices, wealth advisors and suitably qualified investors access to its proprietary suite of curated specialty alternative investment strategies.HedgeACT's mission is to identify, research and provide due diligence on niche alternative investment strategies. We identify and source unique risk-adjusted return strategies that historically have provided true alpha and are not correlated to the broader asset classes.
eFactor Network
E Factor Network, Its a FINTECH company that provides a MARKET PLACE through WEB SaaS that connects Corporate Enterprises, with their Suppliers, and Clients with financial institutions for short term Working Capital financing electronically.
1931 Funding LLC
1931 Funding, LLC is a company that provides short-term cash advances to small businesses (Merchants) to help them fund their growth. It does this through a network of Funding Firms.