James Soltesz is an Investment Manager of Saratoga Investment Advisors, LLC, the Company’s investment adviser, and is responsible for the underwriting, trading and portfolio management of the firm’s third-party CLO security business.
Prior to Saratoga, he was a Structured Products Analyst for the Mariner Leveraged Credit Team at Mariner Investment Group. In his role, he was responsible for the trading and portfolio management of a $400MM CLO debt and equity portfolio investing across the capital structure in both the primary and secondary markets. He also assisted in CLO structuring, on-going fund surveillance, and portfolio analytics. Prior to Mariner, he was an analyst at Business Development Corporation of America (“BDCA”) where he provided investment and analytical support for the fund’s CLO equity fund. Mr. Soltesz began his career on the structured products trading desk at Cohen & Company capital markets.
Mr. Soltesz holds an MBA & BS from Georgetown University.
