ArrowMark Financial Corp.

The primary investment objectives of ArrowMark Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: BANX) are income generation, capital preservation and providing total risk-adjusted returns.

 

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Board of Directors

Sanjai Bhonsle
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Bhonsle was elected Chairman & CEO of ArrowMark Financial Corp., formerly StoneCastle Financial Corp., in February 2020. He also serves on the Board of Directors of StoneCastle-ArrowMark Asset Management, LLC.

Mr. Bhonsle joined ArrowMark in October 2012 and serves as Partner and Portfolio Manager for ArrowMark's leveraged loan investments and collateralized loan obligation funds. Prior to joining ArrowMark, he founded MB Consulting Partners in 2009, where he specialized in financial and operational restructuring advisory to stressed and distressed middle-market companies. With more than 10 years of restructuring experience, he has led several assignments across various industries. Sanjai was a Senior Portfolio Manager at GSO Capital Partners, a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group, and member of the Investment and Management Committee (2005-2009). Prior to joining GSO Capital Partners, Sanjai was an Assistant Portfolio Manager for RBC Capital Partners’ debt investment group and was a member of the Investment Committee (2001-2005). He also led the group’s restructuring efforts related to distressed investments and represented the firm’s interests on creditor committees. From 1999-2001, Sanjai was a Senior Investment Analyst at Indosuez Capital Partners. Sanjai received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and an MBA from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.
 

John Emrich
Chair, Audit Committee
Mr. Emrich has significant experience in the investment management and financial services industry. Mr. Emrich served as a financial analyst or portfolio manager for over 13 years for various investment advisory firms. Prior to such positions he also performed business valuations and appraisal analyses at KPMG Peat Marwick, an accounting firm.  Mr. Emrich was appointed Chair of the Audit Committee in February 2020. 
Emil W. Henry Jr.

Mr. Henry is the CEO and Founder of Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm focused on infrastructure investment opportunities. Prior to founding Tiger Infrastructure Partners, he was Global Head of the Lehman Brothers Private Equity Infrastructure businesses, where he oversaw global infrastructure investments. In 2005, Mr. Henry was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions by the President of the United States. Until his departure in 2007, he was a key advisor to two Treasury Secretaries on economic, legislative and regulatory matters affecting U.S. financial institutions and markets. Before joining the Treasury, Mr. Henry was a partner of Gleacher Partners LLC, an investment banking and investment management firm, where he served as Chairman of Asset Management, and Managing Director, and where he oversaw the firm’s investment activities. Mr. Henry began the formative part of his career at Morgan Stanley in the mid-1980s in that firm’s merchant banking arm where he executed management buyouts for Morgan Stanley’s flagship private equity fund. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

 

Melissa Marano Thompson
Nominating and Governance Committee

Ms. Marano Thompson is a seasoned investor and risk manager with a background spanning over 30 years in leveraged finance and private equity. Since 2013, she has been a financial consultant. Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Marano Thompson worked as a portfolio manager of Ivy Hill Asset Management, a division of Ares Capital Corporation and served as a Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at First Light Financial Corporation, a middle market finance company. Previously, Ms. Marano Thompson was a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management, Mezzanine Group, focusing on bank debt investments. Prior to joining Oaktree Capital Management, Ms. Marano Thompson was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at GSO Capital Partners, where she managed approximately $4.5 billion in assets across their CLO platform. Ms. Marano Thompson also had prior roles at RBC Capital, Credit Agricole Indosuez (Indosuez Capital) and was credit trained at Chemical Bank. Ms. Marano Thompson received her B.B.A., in finance, cum laude, and her MBA in finance from Hofstra University.

Karen Reidy
Ms. Reidy is a founding Partner and co-manages ArrowMark’s collateralized loan obligation and specialty finance investments and research analyst team. Prior to founding ArrowMark, Ms. Reidy served as Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Janus Capital, managing $10 billion for two strategies: Janus Balanced Fund and Janus Core Equity Fund, as well as institutional separate accounts (2000-2005). Ms. Reidy was also the Assistant Portfolio Manager of the Janus Fund (1998-2000). She joined Janus Capital as an equity analyst in 1995. Prior to Janus Capital Group, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC in the audit and mergers and acquisitions departments. Ms. Reidy graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.