Evan Ratner

Evan Ratner is a portfolio manager and the head of research at Chatham Asset Management, and is currently a director of Accelerate360, a leading distribution company. Mr. Ratner has had a 30-year career in finance, beginning as a financial analyst in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking group focusing on financial institutions. Mr. Ratner then joined DLJ/Credit Suisse, where he would work for 18 years in investment banking, high yield research, and distressed research, most recently as a Managing Director and Head of Distressed Research. In this capacity he hired and trained nearly all members of the distressed research team and ran the vendor finance business for four years. After Credit Suisse purchased DLJ in 2000, Mr. Ratner continued to head the distressed team until leaving for an event driven hedge fund, Darmel Management, in mid-2002 where he was the Distressed Portfolio Manager. He returned to Credit Suisse the following year and resumed his role as the head of Distressed Research before leaving to join Chatham in 2009. Mr. Ratner earned an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1991 as well as a B.A. in economics from Columbia College in 1985.