Aaron Peck

Mr. Peck is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Monroe Capital.  He is the Portfolio Manager for the Opportunistic Credit strategies and co-head of the Specialty Finance vertical; and is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Monroe Capital Corporation’s publicly held business development company (NASDAQ:MRCC), and is responsible for portfolio management. He joined the firm in 2012 and is a member of Monroe’s Investment Committee.  Mr. Peck has over 25 years of experience in credit, lending, high yield, distressed credit and public company operations and investor relations.  Prior to Monroe, Mr. Peck was Chief Investment Officer at Deerfield Capital Management and was responsible for the investment teams at Deerfield including syndicated and middle market loan teams which managed over $5 billion in assets. Mr. Peck was also chief portfolio manager for Deerfield’s publicly-traded specialty finance mortgage REIT and in that capacity, was the key point of contact for all institutional and retail investors, investment banking research analysts, lenders and investment bankers. Prior to Deerfield, he worked in leveraged credit at several investment firms including AEG Investors, Black Diamond Capital, Salomon Smith Barney, and ESL Investments. Mr. Peck earned his M.B.A. with Honors from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Commerce from The University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce.