Ara Cohen

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Biography

Mr. Ara Cohen is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Portfolio Manager & Co-Chairman at Knighthead Capital Management. Mr. Cohen serves as a Board Member of the Professional Fighters League. He also serves as Co-Chairman at Knighthead Annuity & Life Assurance Company. He was a principal at Redwood Capital Management from early 2001, shortly after the firm's founding by Jonathan Kolatch, a former partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Cohen subsequently helped build the firm from a small start-up to a multi-billion dollar fund. From 1998 until 2001 he was a Principal of King Street Capital Management L.L.C., a hedge fund focusing on distressed securities. He was the first investment professional to join King Street after its founding three years prior by the two general partners. From 1995 until 1998, he was a principal of Tamarix Capital Corporation, an international merchant banking firm focused on making investments in companies experiencing difficulties due to a lack of capital, financial expertise or managerial focus. He began his career in 1993 at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company where he served principally as an analyst for The 1818 Fund, L.P. and The 1818 Fund II, two private equity partnerships sponsored by the firm with over $800 million of committed capital. He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1993.