Sheru Chowdhry is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at DSC Meridian Capital, an opportunistic credit investment firm focused on generating returns across the credit cycle.

Prior to launching DSC Meridian Capital, Mr. Chowdhry was Head of Credit Research and Portfolio Manager at Paulson & Co. and managed the Paulson Credit Opportunities Funds. He was the first credit hire at Paulson & Co. in 2004, and was promoted to Partner in 2007, to Head of Credit Research in 2009 and to Portfolio Manager in 2015. During his tenure, he oversaw a team of 15 credit professionals and represented Paulson & Co. on several creditor committees and Boards of Directors.

Prior to Paulson & Co., Mr. Chowdhry was a Vice President at DebtTraders Inc. and focused on high yield and distressed securities research. Mr. Chowdhry started his career in 2000 in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at J.P. Morgan as an Associate.

Mr. Chowdhry has an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Bombay. He currently serves on the NY Tri-State Board of Pratham, one of the largest non-for-profit in India, that seeks to provide quality education to underprivileged children in India.

Mr. Aluf Medina has covered high yield and distressed debt securities and equities in developed economies over the past 15 years. Prior to joining DSC Meridian, he worked as a Managing Director and Partner at Southpaw Asset Management, Scottwood Asset Management, Eos Partners, and on the sell side at DebtTraders. Prior to this, he was a banker in the mergers and acquisitions department of Lehman Brothers.

Ceki is a graduate of Bogazici University (BSc.) and has an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Prior to DSC Meridian, Jay Blount was Director of Business Development and Investor Relations at TVR Capital Management, an equity market neutral hedge fund focused on the energy sector. Prior to joining TVR, Mr. Blount spent eight years at Paulson & Co., an event-driven hedge fund, where he was Director of Business Development and Investor Relations. Prior to joining Paulson, he was a management consultant at Casey Quirk & Associates.

Mr. Blount graduated from Yale University with a BA in History.

Prior to joining DSC Meridian, Mr. Breckenridge was a Managing Director at Marathon Asset Management (2002-2016), a $13 billion special situations fixed income investment manager. Over his fourteen-year tenure, Mr. Breckenridge was tasked with leading investment analysis and strategy in industries of stress and transformation globally. Mr. Breckenridge led investments for Marathon in banks, non-bank financials, telecom, technology, infrastructure, media, homebuilders, chemicals, energy and general industrials. In his role, Mr. Breckenridge managed complex, multi-jurisdictional restructurings in North America, Latin America  and Europe. Mr. Breckenridge also oversaw the investment analysis and purchase negotiations for several portfolio purchases of distressed assets, as well as the purchase of companies from Chapter 11 §363 sales.

Prior to Marathon Asset Management, Mr. Breckenridge was a Director of Research at DebtTraders (2001-2002), a high-yield and distressed debt trading boutique, where he developed research products and hired the team of analysts. Previously, Mr. Breckenridge was a Vice President of Fixed Income Research in Societe Generale’s High Yield Group (2000-2001).  Matthew started his career at Merrill Lynch Asset Management as a Vice President in the Tax Exempt Fixed Income Group (1996-2000), with a concentration in analyzing and investing in high yield and distressed tax exempt bonds.

Mr. Breckenridge earned a B.S. in Accounting from Rutgers University.

Greg Buhay joined in March 2021 as our Head Trader. Before joining the DSC Meridian team, Mr. Buhay spent his entire 15-year career managing credit products, first in credit sales at Lehman Brothers where he focused on structured products, CLOs, and credit derivatives. He then transitioned into credit trading at Barclays from 2009 onward. As a credit trader, Greg gained direct experience trading and committing bank capital into deeply distressed, process driven, bankrupt companies, as well as managing a portfolio of inventory positions across a spectrum of public and private issuers. Greg has a very robust network and deep relationships among the credit investor universe as well as other sell side contacts.

He earned a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Lauren Clark has over ten years’ experience in Administration and Operations within the financial service industry. Prior to joining DSC Meridian in 2021, Ms. Clark was the Office Manager at Iron Park Capital Partners, LP an alternative investment firm. In this role, she was responsible to assist with establishing the day-to-day operations and office functions of the firm. Prior to that Ms. Clark was at Duane Park Capital Management LP from 2017-2019 as the Office Manager in a similar capacity to Iron Park. Ms. Clark first joined the financial service industry as an Administrative Assistant at former long/short credit fund, Claren Road Asset Management from 2012-2017.

Ms. Clark earned a B.A. from California State University Monterey Bay in Visual and Public Arts.

Prior to joining DSC Meridian, Mr. Douty was an analyst for the special situations credit strategy at Sandell Asset Management and its subsequent reconstitution at 1798 Lombard Odier (2019-2022). In his role, Mr. Douty prepared investment theses across the capital structure from catalyst-driven performing credit to distressed credit to equities. Prior to Sandell Asset Management, Mr. Douty as an analyst at Duane Park Capital (2018-2019) where he covered companies predominately in retail, autos, and housing. Previously, Mr. Douty worked as an analyst at Octagon Credit Investors covering energy.

Mr. Douty earned a B.S. in Economics with concentrations Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to DSC Meridian, David Gulkowitz co-founded Milford Sound Capital in 2015, an opportunistic credit hedge fund, where he served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Gulkowitz was Chief Operating Officer at the multi-strategy hedge fund Hutchin Hill Capital from 2009 to 2015.

Prior to joining Hutchin Hill, Mr. Gulkowitz worked for six years at S.A.C. Capital in a variety of senior roles. From 2005 to 2009, he was Head Quantitative Trader for S.A.C. Select, a multi-strategy quantitative portfolio. Prior to that, he was Head of Margin Management, Head of Exchange-Traded Derivatives, Commodities and FX Operations, and Head of Fixed Income Operations at S.A.C. Capital from 2003 to 2005. Previously, Mr. Gulkowitz was a Financial Analyst in the Fixed Income Risk Management Group at Mizuho Corporate Bank (formerly Industrial Bank of Japan) in New York from 2000 to 2003.

Mr. Gulkowitz earned his Sc.B., summa cum laude, in Finance from Providence College in 1999.

Prior to joining DSC Meridian, Mr. Kesner was an analyst at GCM Grosvenor and Varde Partners where he originated and underwrote stressed and distressed credit investments across the aerospace, energy, chemicals and TMT sectors.  In these roles, Mr. Kesner participated in a number of restructurings and served on ad hoc creditor committees.  Previously, Mr. Kesner worked for private equity firm KRG Capital and investment banks Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital.

Mr. Kesner received an MBA with honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA with distinction from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Prior to joining DSC Meridian, Mr. Le Lion was an analyst at Claren Road Asset Management (2014-2018). In his role, Mr. Le Lion prepared the investment analysis for names in the energy, retail and tech sector and ranging from bankruptcy situations to equities. Prior to Claren Road, Mr. Le Lion worked as a distressed credit desk analyst at JP Morgan (2012-2014) where he covered companies predominately in shipping, mining, retail, media and also worked on distressed SIVs. Previously, Mr. Le Lion worked in Syndicated & Leverage Finance at JP Morgan (2010-2012).

Mr. Le Lion earned a B.S. in Finance from INSEEC University, Paris and did a study abroad at Emory University.

Ms. Luff joined us on January 4th, 2021, to become our Director of ESG Research & Engagement. Prior to DSC Meridian, Ms. Luff was Director of Sustainability and Impact at Inherent Group, LP, where she developed the firm’s ESG platform and led engagement with portfolio companies and investment stewardship. Prior to joining Inherent, Ms. Luff was Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Hess Corporation where she built the business unit, led strategy development, and integrated material ESG matters into operations. Previously, Ms. Luff was Senior Director of Strategic Health partnerships at Pfizer where she built and led the company’s Access to Medicines initiatives globally.

Ms. Luff earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Master’s Degrees from New York University and the New School.