Ray is Partner and Head of Capital Markets and Lending at Pensam. He is responsible for sourcing, structuring, negotiating and executing on whole-loans, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments. Ray is also responsible for building relationships with sponsors to help provide innovative capital solutions that are tailored to their unique funding needs. Additionally, he leads Pensam’s efforts to build close relationships with senior lenders, including debt funds, commercial banks and life companies.
Ray spent the formative years of his career on Wall Street having worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenerette, and Raymond James. He has been involved in the issuance of over $6 billion of high yield securities, the issuance of over $3 billion of private and public equities, arranged bridge commitments and senior loan facilities, advised on over $7 billion of global M&A transactions and advised on several merchant banking transactions. Previously, Ray was also SVP Finance and Treasurer of a publicly traded company.
Ray attended NYU in New York City.