Lynn Hopton

Before founding HalseyPoint, Lynn was the Co-Head and Senior Managing Director of the Leveraged Debt Group at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (and its predecessor companies) for 18 years from April of 2000 through March 2018.

She was responsible for running the leveraged debt business of Columbia which had approximately $9 billion in assets under management at its peak, including over $8 billion in CLO vehicles. She also was the lead portfolio manager for all funds and chair of the credit committee.

Lynn previously worked as a Managing Director at AIG/ SunAmerica for 9 years where she was responsible for the management and trading of over $3 billion of assets across a variety of fixed income asset classes. She began her career as a banker covering private equity sponsors on the west coast for Security Pacific Merchant Bank.

Ms. Hopton received a BA in Economics with distinction from Northwestern University and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.