Ken Kencel - President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management

Jul 7, 2024

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Ken Kencel is the President & CEO of Churchill Asset Management, a $50 billion dollar platform serving over 700 institutional clients. He shared valuable insights on the growing private credit market, the evolution of the industry, his first job at Drexel, working at Carlyle and then going out on his own to start Churchill from scratch. We also discuss the nuances of the art of the covenent and finish with Ken’s desert island discs.

Ken started his career in M&A at Drexel Bernham Lambert, founded the high yield finance business at Chase Securities, and was head of leveraged finance at RBC as well as Indosuez Capital. He was president and CEO of Churchill Financial group, which was sold to Carlyle where he served as a Managing director before starting Churchill Asset Management. Ken graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown and has a JD from Northwestern.

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