Daniel Chapman

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Biography

Mr. Daniel Chapman is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer at Argentem Creek Partners. He is responsible for leading emerging markets investment firm Argentem Creek and management of the funds. He has more than 30 years of experience successfully negotiating and navigating businesses through major financial crises over decades of market volatility with a track record of outperforming major benchmarks. He leads the Investment Committee and the Management Committee and serves on the Compliance Committee. He marked the beginning of his career in 1989 at Manufacturers Hanover Trust where he was involved in Mexico's sovereign debt restructuring under the first application of the Brady Plan, which is largely recognized as one of the earliest debt restructurings of scale on record. He is based in New York. Prior to founding Argentem Creek in 2015, he was responsible for all emerging markets' risk-taking activity within high-yield, structured, and distressed corporate credit at Black River Asset Management. In this role, he oversaw a global team responsible for analyzing, sourcing, trading and investing in emerging markets credit. Prior to joining Black River in 2004, he was with JP Morgan New York for fifteen years, most recently as a Managing Director responsible for the distressed debt trading business. In 1989, he joined Manufacturers Hanover Trust, which through a series of mergers became the current JP Morgan Chase, where he worked as an analyst and went on to establish the corporate credit trading desk in 1990. As the company underwent a series of mergers to become JPMorgan, he managed various parts of the corporate credit business in emerging markets, most recently in the area of distressed corporate debt. He managed both proprietary risk as well as a client flow book. He was also responsible for managing sourcing efforts, directing credit analysts in the development of analytics, and working with legal counsel to develop strategies and manage legal issues related to workouts. He graduated from the University of Buffalo in 1989 with a Bachelor's degree in Business.