Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

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