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Hector Negroni, Founder & CEO
Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit, CIO of the FCO strategy and a member of the FIO investment committee. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. His efforts have provided financing for tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure and essential government services. Prior to forming Foundation, he was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs and before joining Goldman, he worked at Société Générale, Lazard Fréres and Citigroup in a variety of leadership roles. Hector sits on the advisory boards of NAST’s National Institute of Public Finance and the Milken Institute Program for Excellence and Equity in Public Finance. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters and is active with a number of charities focused on children’s and veteran’s concerns.

Email: hnegroni@foundationcredit.com

Steven Pinkos, President
Steven Pinkos is President of Foundation Credit and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee. Steve is responsible for overseeing firm operations, administration, business development and strategy. Prior to joining Foundation, Steve was at Goldman Sachs, where he spent over twenty years in leadership roles across the Global Credit and Mortgage franchises within the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) unit of the Global Markets Division. At Goldman, he was also a member of various credit sales management, risk, electronic trading and business operating committees. Steve received his MBA from the University of Chicago and BME in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and currently serves on the College of Engineering’s Advisory Board.

Email: spinkos@foundationcredit.com

Sudar Purushothaman, Partner & FCO Portfolio Manager
Sudar Purushothaman is a Partner, Portfolio Manager for the FCO strategy and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee.  Sudar’s responsibilities include developing and executing investment strategies, as well as risk management and analysis for the FCO strategy.  Prior to joining FCO in 2012, Sudar spent four years as a trader at Goldman Sachs on the municipal desk, focusing on high yield and high grade bond trading. Sudar received his Bachelors of Science from Stanford University and his Masters in Applied Mathematics from New York University.

Email: spurusho@foundationcredit.com

Todd Neufeld, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer.
Todd Neufeld is the COO, CFO and CCO of Foundation Credit and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee. Todd is responsible for overseeing Foundation’s financial, operational, compliance and technology matters. Todd has over thirty years of experience in financial services, including over twenty years at both equity and credit hedge funds, primarily responsible for non-investment related functions. Todd has served as COO, CFO and/or CCO for numerous funds, including Peace Bridge Partners, Herring Creek Capital Management and Wyper Capital Management, and was the Director of Operations for GoldenTree Asset Management. Prior to joining his first hedge fund, Todd was a Managing Director at ING Furman Selz Asset Management (and its predecessor, investment banking firm Furman Selz), where he had multiple financial and operational roles over 11 years. Todd began his career at Ernst & Young, where he audited firms in the banking, brokerage, and mutual fund industries. Todd earned a Bachelor in Accounting degree from the George Washington University and an MBA in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU. Todd is also a CPA.
Robyn Huffman, Senior Advisor
Robyn A. Huffman is a Senior Advisor to Foundation Credit. Prior to joining Foundation in 2015 as its General Counsel and CCO, Robyn was a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at Goldman Sachs, where she spent sixteen years managing legal and regulatory matters for Goldman’s fixed income business in the U. S. At Goldman, she had diverse product-level responsibilities as well as regulatory and compliance duties. Prior to her tenure at Goldman, Robyn was a partner in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where her practice focused on debt financings for state and local government capital projects, municipal asset securitizations, debt restructuring and complex project finance transactions with a municipal component. Robyn earned both her BA and JD from the University of Illinois, where she was a member of the Law Review.

Email: rhuffman@foundationcredit.com

Hector Negroni, Founder & CEO
Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit, CIO of the FCO strategy and a member of the FIO investment committee. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. His efforts have provided financing for tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure and essential government services. Prior to forming Foundation, he was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs and before joining Goldman, he worked at Société Générale, Lazard Fréres and Citigroup in a variety of leadership roles. Hector sits on the advisory boards of NAST’s National Institute of Public Finance and the Milken Institute Program for Excellence and Equity in Public Finance. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters and is active with a number of charities focused on children’s and veteran’s concerns.

Email: hnegroni@foundationcredit.com

Sudar Purushothaman, Partner & FCO Portfolio Manager
Sudar Purushothaman is a Partner, Portfolio Manager for the FCO strategy and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee.  Sudar’s responsibilities include developing and executing investment strategies, as well as risk management and analysis for the FCO strategy.  Prior to joining FCO in 2012, Sudar spent four years as a trader at Goldman Sachs on the municipal desk, focusing on high yield and high grade bond trading. Sudar received his Bachelors of Science from Stanford University and his Masters in Applied Mathematics from New York University.

Email: spurusho@foundationcredit.com

Hector Negroni, Founder & CEO
Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit, CIO of the FCO strategy and a member of the FIO investment committee. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. His efforts have provided financing for tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure and essential government services. Prior to forming Foundation, he was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs and before joining Goldman, he worked at Société Générale, Lazard Fréres and Citigroup in a variety of leadership roles. Hector sits on the advisory boards of NAST’s National Institute of Public Finance and the Milken Institute Program for Excellence and Equity in Public Finance. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters and is active with a number of charities focused on children’s and veteran’s concerns.

Email: hnegroni@foundationcredit.com

Danford Peterson, Co-Portfolio Manager and CIO of FIO
Danford Peterson is a Co-Portfolio Manager and CIO of FIO and a member of the FIO Investment Committee. Danford has 2 decades of experience on domestic infrastructure needs as a researcher, banker, structurer and investor developing solutions for billions in infrastructure projects at Goldman Sachs, PIMCO, Jefferies and FCO. Danford joined Foundation in 2014 as a Portfolio Manager for FCO. Prior to joining Foundation, Danford built and managed the Relative Value Public Finance desk at Jefferies, overseeing capital investment and risk management in both the taxable and tax-exempt public finance markets. Prior to Jefferies, Danford co-headed the public finance group at PIMCO where he was a member of the Americas Portfolio Committee, responsible for investment recommendations and strategy initiatives for their multi-billion dollar portfolio. Danford started his career at Goldman Sachs where he spent 11 years as an investment banker in public finance and, later, as a portfolio manager. Danford’s interest in infrastructure began when, as an engineering student, he collaborated with the Federal Highway Administration and Navy Research Laboratory on a smart bridge girder system. Danford received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Bates College and his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College.

Email: dpeterson@foundationcredit.com

Andrew Prindle, Co-Portfolio Manager and Head of Origination of FIO
Andy Prindle is a Co-Portfolio Manager of FIO and the Head of the FIO origination team . Prior to joining Foundation in 2018, Andy spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs in the Public Sector and Infrastructure Group of Investment Banking focused on advising, originating, structuring, and executing municipal infrastructure project finance. His experience includes over $25 billion in transactions in the transportation, social infrastructure, higher education, military housing, utility and water sectors nationally, ranging from new construction financings and P3s to privatization and acquisition financings Andy received his BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Email: aprindle@foundationcredit.com

J. Timothy Romer, Partner
Tim Romer is a Partner of Foundation Credit and a member of the FIO Investment Committee. Tim has over 35 years of experience in the U.S. infrastructure, municipal and project financing completing over $75 billion in government related infrastructure projects in the transportation, water, power, social, smart and sustainable infrastructure sectors. He also has been active in public private partnerships and government privatizations including the first US water P3 concession, the largest U,S. transit P3 and several federal privatizations. Tim has executed a variety of debt and equity products and has provided M&A advisory services for infrastructure assets. Tim spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs and served as head of the Western Region Public Sector & Infrastructure Group and co-head of the U.S. P3 practice. Prior to that, Tim worked at Merrill Lynch & Co. for 15 years, including serving as co-head of the Western Region Public Finance Group and also was CFO of a private software company for 3 years. Tim received his BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Email: tromer@foundationcredit.com

Hector Negroni, Founder & CEO
Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit, CIO of the FCO strategy and a member of the FIO investment committee. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. His efforts have provided financing for tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure and essential government services. Prior to forming Foundation, he was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs and before joining Goldman, he worked at Société Générale, Lazard Fréres and Citigroup in a variety of leadership roles. Hector sits on the advisory boards of NAST’s National Institute of Public Finance and the Milken Institute Program for Excellence and Equity in Public Finance. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters and is active with a number of charities focused on children’s and veteran’s concerns.

Email: hnegroni@foundationcredit.com

Robyn Huffman, Senior Advisor
Robyn A. Huffman is a Senior Advisor to Foundation Credit. Prior to joining Foundation in 2015 as its General Counsel and CCO, Robyn was a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at Goldman Sachs, where she spent sixteen years managing legal and regulatory matters for Goldman’s fixed income business in the U. S. At Goldman, she had diverse product-level responsibilities as well as regulatory and compliance duties. Prior to her tenure at Goldman, Robyn was a partner in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where her practice focused on debt financings for state and local government capital projects, municipal asset securitizations, debt restructuring and complex project finance transactions with a municipal component. Robyn earned both her BA and JD from the University of Illinois, where she was a member of the Law Review.

Email: rhuffman@foundationcredit.com

Danford Peterson, Co-Portfolio Manager and CIO of FIO
Danford Peterson is a Co-Portfolio Manager and CIO of FIO and a member of the FIO Investment Committee. Danford has 2 decades of experience on domestic infrastructure needs as a researcher, banker, structurer and investor developing solutions for billions in infrastructure projects at Goldman Sachs, PIMCO, Jefferies and FCO. Danford joined Foundation in 2014 as a Portfolio Manager for FCO. Prior to joining Foundation, Danford built and managed the Relative Value Public Finance desk at Jefferies, overseeing capital investment and risk management in both the taxable and tax-exempt public finance markets. Prior to Jefferies, Danford co-headed the public finance group at PIMCO where he was a member of the Americas Portfolio Committee, responsible for investment recommendations and strategy initiatives for their multi-billion dollar portfolio. Danford started his career at Goldman Sachs where he spent 11 years as an investment banker in public finance and, later, as a portfolio manager. Danford’s interest in infrastructure began when, as an engineering student, he collaborated with the Federal Highway Administration and Navy Research Laboratory on a smart bridge girder system. Danford received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Bates College and his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College.

Email: dpeterson@foundationcredit.com

Steven Pinkos, President
Steven Pinkos is President of Foundation Credit and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee. Steve is responsible for overseeing firm operations, administration, business development and strategy. Prior to joining Foundation, Steve was at Goldman Sachs, where he spent over twenty years in leadership roles across the Global Credit and Mortgage franchises within the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) unit of the Global Markets Division. At Goldman, he was also a member of various credit sales management, risk, electronic trading and business operating committees. Steve received his MBA from the University of Chicago and BME in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and currently serves on the College of Engineering’s Advisory Board.

Email: spinkos@foundationcredit.com

Andrew Prindle, Co-Portfolio Manager and Head of Origination of FIO
Andy Prindle is a Co-Portfolio Manager of FIO and the Head of the FIO origination team . Prior to joining Foundation in 2018, Andy spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs in the Public Sector and Infrastructure Group of Investment Banking focused on advising, originating, structuring, and executing municipal infrastructure project finance. His experience includes over $25 billion in transactions in the transportation, social infrastructure, higher education, military housing, utility and water sectors nationally, ranging from new construction financings and P3s to privatization and acquisition financings Andy received his BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Email: aprindle@foundationcredit.com

Sudar Purushothaman, Partner & FCO Portfolio Manager
Sudar Purushothaman is a Partner, Portfolio Manager for the FCO strategy and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee.  Sudar’s responsibilities include developing and executing investment strategies, as well as risk management and analysis for the FCO strategy.  Prior to joining FCO in 2012, Sudar spent four years as a trader at Goldman Sachs on the municipal desk, focusing on high yield and high grade bond trading. Sudar received his Bachelors of Science from Stanford University and his Masters in Applied Mathematics from New York University.

Email: spurusho@foundationcredit.com

J. Timothy Romer, Partner
Tim Romer is a Partner of Foundation Credit and a member of the FIO Investment Committee. Tim has over 35 years of experience in the U.S. infrastructure, municipal and project financing completing over $75 billion in government related infrastructure projects in the transportation, water, power, social, smart and sustainable infrastructure sectors. He also has been active in public private partnerships and government privatizations including the first US water P3 concession, the largest U,S. transit P3 and several federal privatizations. Tim has executed a variety of debt and equity products and has provided M&A advisory services for infrastructure assets. Tim spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs and served as head of the Western Region Public Sector & Infrastructure Group and co-head of the U.S. P3 practice. Prior to that, Tim worked at Merrill Lynch & Co. for 15 years, including serving as co-head of the Western Region Public Finance Group and also was CFO of a private software company for 3 years. Tim received his BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Email: tromer@foundationcredit.com

Todd Neufeld, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer.
Todd Neufeld is the COO, CFO and CCO of Foundation Credit and a member of Foundation’s Executive Committee. Todd is responsible for overseeing Foundation’s financial, operational, compliance and technology matters. Todd has over thirty years of experience in financial services, including over twenty years at both equity and credit hedge funds, primarily responsible for non-investment related functions. Todd has served as COO, CFO and/or CCO for numerous funds, including Peace Bridge Partners, Herring Creek Capital Management and Wyper Capital Management, and was the Director of Operations for GoldenTree Asset Management. Prior to joining his first hedge fund, Todd was a Managing Director at ING Furman Selz Asset Management (and its predecessor, investment banking firm Furman Selz), where he had multiple financial and operational roles over 11 years. Todd began his career at Ernst & Young, where he audited firms in the banking, brokerage, and mutual fund industries. Todd earned a Bachelor in Accounting degree from the George Washington University and an MBA in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU. Todd is also a CPA.