Vice Chairman & Director, NMFC
Joined: 2008
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Robert Hamwee, Managing Director, CEO and Director of NMFC, joined New Mountain in 2008. Mr. Hamwee is primarily dedicated to the credit business and serves as NMFC’s Chief Executive Officer and co-portfolio manager of the private credit strategies. Prior to joining New Mountain, he was President of GSC Group (“GSC”), where he was responsible for managing GSC’s control distressed debt funds. He was with Greenwich Street Capital Partners, the predecessor to GSC from 1994 to 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Hamwee was with The Blackstone Group from 1992 to 1994, where he worked on a wide range of assignments in the Restructuring and Merchant Banking Departments. Mr. Hamwee has chaired numerous creditor committees and bank steering groups and has been a lead director for many corporate boards, including Purina Mills, Envirosource, and Viasystems. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a B.B.A. degree in Finance and Accounting in 1992.
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