Fireside Chat with Michael Gatto

Join us for a conversation with the investor who wrote the book on credit.

Michael Gatto is one of the foremost minds in credit and distressed-debt investing. A partner at Silver Point Capital, a $30 billion credit-focused fund, he joined in 2002 as its first non-founding partner and helped grow the firm from just $120 million into one of the largest credit investors in the world. He built his mastery from the ground up, first as a loan officer and head of global training at Citibank, then through Goldman Sachs' famed Special Situations Group, before distilling 25 years at the frontier of the debt markets into the definitive book on the subject, The Credit Investor's Handbook. Today he also shapes the next generation of investors as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.
In this fireside chat, Michael Gatto will share what a career spent finding value where others see only risk has taught him: how to truly analyze a business, why the best opportunities often hide in distress and complexity, and what it takes to build conviction when the market is running the other way. Whether you are drawn to investing, finance, or simply the discipline of thinking clearly under pressure, this is a rare chance to learn from a master who has spent his life teaching others how it is done.