David Schmuck
Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Schmuck is a founding partner of Pangaea Asset Management, LLC and member of the Pangaea Investment Committee. He is responsible for communicating to the Investment Committee managed portfolio guidelines. He is also responsible for communication with the firm’s investor base.

Previously he was Managing Director and CLO Portfolio Manager at GE Asset Management (“GEAM”), where he, as part of the bank loan team, was responsible for management of approximately $2.1 billion in collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) transactions. He had portfolio management responsibility for Antares Funding, LP, Nova CDO 2001, Mariner CDO 2002, Navigator CDO 2003, Navigator CDO 2004, Navigator CDO 2005 and Navigator CDO 2006. Mr. Schmuck joined GEAM in November 2005 when General Electric Capital Corporation (“GECC”), an affiliate of GE, acquired Antares Capital Corporation (“ACC”) and Antares Asset Management (“AAM”).

Prior to GEAM, Mr. Schmuck was a member of the Investment Committee for AAM and also Chief Financial Officer of ACC. Prior to the acquisition by GECC, ACC and AAM managed the following transactions: Antares Funding L.P., Nova CDO 2001, Ltd. (as Advisor), Mariner CDO 2002, Navigator CDO 2003, Navigator CDO 2004, Navigator CDO 2005.

Mr Schmuck worked for nearly 11 years at Heller Financial, Inc. prior to Antares. Most recently he served as Senior Director of Asset Distribution at Heller focused on asset-backed securitization transactions. Mr. Schmuck has been an active participant in the leveraged loan market since 1988.

Mr. Schmuck is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and received a B.S. degree in accounting from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and his Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.