Senior Management
Aaron Peck
Managing Director & Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager, Alternative Credit Solutions
Phone: 312-523-2363
Email: apeck@monroecap.com
Office Location: Chicago
Joined the team: 2012
Education
- University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, B.S. in Commerce
- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, M.B.A. with Honors in Finance
Experience
- Deerfield Capital Management, Chief Investment Officer
- AEG Investors, LLC, Senior Director
- Black Diamond Capital, Research Associate – Leveraged Finance
- Salomon Smith Barney (Citigroup), Vice President – High Yield
Hometown: Falls Church, VA
Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Movie: Fargo
Full Bio
Mr. Peck is a Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Monroe Capital’s Alternative Credit Solutions. He is responsible for deal origination, structuring, and portfolio management, as well as overseeing the Alternative Credit business and its team. As part of the Alternative Credit business, Mr. Peck co-leads the firms’ investments in real estate, specialty finance and corporate special situations. He joined the firm in 2012 and is a member of Monroe’s Investment Committee. Mr. Peck has over 30 years of experience in credit, lending, alternative credit, high yield and distressed credit. Prior to Monroe, Mr. Peck was Co-Chief Investment Officer at Deerfield Capital Management and was responsible for the investment teams at Deerfield which managed over $10 billion in AUM in bank loans, middle market credit, mezzanine debt, credit default swaps, commercial real estate loans, asset-backed securities, and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities. 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 and opportunistic finance at several investment firms including AEG Investors, Black Diamond Capital, Salomon Smith Barney (Citibank), and ESL Investments. Mr. Peck earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting 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.
News
Coronavirus Liquidity Crunch: Opportunistic Credit May Fill a Void by Aaron Peck and Kyle Asher
May 14, 2020