Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
Steven Shenfeld is President of MidOcean Credit Partners. Prior to joining MidOcean, he was a general partner<br />
and founder of MD Sass Macquarie Financial Strategies, an asset management private equity fund for MD Sass, a<br />
$6 billion investment management organization. Shenfeld was previously a general partner with Avenue Capital<br />
Group LLC, a multi-billion dollar distressed debt and credit investment platform. He was also a managing director for<br />
Banc Boston Robertson Stephens and Bankers Trust, supervising various business units including Leveraged Finance,<br />
High Yield Capital Markets and Global Finance Sales and Trading. Shenfeld has a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A.<br />
from <strong>the</strong> University of Michigan Business School.<br />
Mark Shenkman is President and Chief Investment Officer of Shenkman Capital Management Inc., which he<br />
founded in 1985. With 40 years of investment experience, he is considered a pioneer of <strong>the</strong> high yield bond market.<br />
Shenkman was previously president and chief investment officer of First Investors Asset Management. Before that,<br />
he was co-manager and vice president of <strong>the</strong> High Yield Bond Department at Lehman Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Kuhn Loeb, where he<br />
established one of Wall Street’s first departments dedicated to high yield securities. He also managed <strong>the</strong> first highyield<br />
bond mutual funds at Fidelity Management and Research Company. Shenkman is co-author of a textbook, High<br />
Yield Bonds: Market Structure, Portfolio Management and Credit Risk Modeling (1999). He is vice chairman of <strong>the</strong> board of<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Connecticut Foundation and chairman of its Investment Committee. Shenkman received a B.A. from<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from The George Washington University.<br />
Gregg Sherrill is Chairman and CEO of Tenneco Inc., a $4.6 billion manufacturer of emission-control and ride-control<br />
components and systems. With 21,000 employees and 80 facilities in 23 countries, <strong>the</strong> company serves all major vehicle<br />
manufacturers and replacement-market customers worldwide. Prior to joining Tenneco in 2007, Sherrill was with Johnson<br />
Controls Inc., a leading automotive equipment and systems supplier. He served most recently as president of <strong>the</strong> Power<br />
Solutions group, <strong>the</strong> company’s global automotive battery business. Revenues grew to $3.5 billion during his tenure, and<br />
operations expanded in North America, Europe and Asia. Previously, he was group vice president and managing director<br />
of Europe, South Africa and South America for <strong>the</strong> firm’s Automotive Systems Group. Sherrill’s background includes 22<br />
years with Ford Motor Company, where he held a range of engineering and manufacturing positions. Sherrill holds a B.S.<br />
from Texas A&M University and an M.B.A. from Indiana University’s Graduate School of Business.<br />
Gary Shilling, a registered investment advisor, is President of A. Gary Shilling & Company Inc., an economic<br />
consulting firm that also publishes Insight, a monthly report of economic forecasts and investment strategy. The author<br />
of several books (and an avid beekeeper), Shilling has been a Forbes magazine columnist since 1983 and appears<br />
regularly on radio and television business shows. Institutional Investor magazine has twice ranked him as Wall Street’s<br />
top economist. He has served on <strong>the</strong> staffs of <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Bank of America. Before<br />
establishing his own firm in 1978, Shilling was senior vice president and chief economist of White, Weld & Co. Earlier he<br />
set up <strong>the</strong> Economics Department at Merrill Lynch at age 29, and served as <strong>the</strong> firm’s first chief economist. He received<br />
a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.<br />
Maria Shriver is a Best-Selling Author and Journalist and has been California’s First Lady since 2003. She has used<br />
her voice to advocate on behalf of women, <strong>the</strong> working poor, <strong>the</strong> intellectually disabled and families struggling with<br />
Alzheimer’s. She has created numerous programs and initiatives under <strong>the</strong> banner of WE – WE Prepare, WE Build,<br />
WE Garden, WE Invest, WE Educate, WE Act, WE Connect – that have been successful in motivating people to unite<br />
across gender, economic and party lines. She has also launched <strong>the</strong> largest statewide volunteer matching network at<br />
CaliforniaVolunteers.org, which hosts a database of more than 45,000 service opportunities. Shriver also serves on <strong>the</strong><br />
advisory board of <strong>the</strong> Sargent Shriver Peace <strong>Institute</strong>. She has been a network news correspondent and anchor for CBS<br />
and NBC, winning Peabody and Emmy awards. She is <strong>the</strong> author of six New York Times best-selling books. Shriver is a<br />
graduate of Georgetown University.<br />
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