Eric Soderlund

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Mr. Eric Soderlund is a Co-Founder and serves as Portfolio Manager and Managing Partner at Corre Partners. Mr. Soderlund has been involved in the financial industry for 23 years in various roles across investment management, risk and operational management, trading and credit underwriting. Most recently, Eric was at Trafelet Delta Funds, where he was a Partner and served as both Head of Risk Management and Senior Trader since 2003. During this period, Eric was an active participant in the investment process at Trafelet where he led detailed reviews of the portfolio on an individual position and macro exposure basis. Eric was responsible for equity and credit trading as well as generating and implementing the firm's macro and hedge positions focused on strategies in volatility, interest rates, sector indices, foreign exchange and commodities. In addition, Eric was a key person on building out Trafelet's operational infrastructure, including leading a five-person team that built and oversaw the firm's proprietary real-time risk system. Before Trafelet, Eric worked for seven years as an equity derivative salesperson at Deutsche Bank and UBS. Eric began his career in 1991 as a credit analyst at National Westminster Bank, a period in which the bank was working through a large portfolio of distressed loans. He left NatWest in 1994 as a loan officer responsible for a loan portfolio exceeding $200 million in cable and media credits. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.