Jim is a Product Specialist focused on supporting the business development efforts of Nuveen’s alternative investments platform which consists of private credit and CLO investment strategies. Jim joined Nuveen in October 2020.

From 2019 to 2020, Jim was Head of Institutional Sales at Park Avenue Institutional Advisers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guardian Life Insurance Company focused on managing below investment grade credit strategies for institutional and wealth management clients.

From 2007 to 2019, Jim was a Managing Director at Barings with responsibilities consisting of institutional sales and marketing of the firm’s investment platform, helping to launch a mutual fund platform for wealth management clients, and restarting Barings’ private credit platform and served as an originator and portfolio manager of private equity backed senior loans.

From 2003 to 2007, Jim was Managing Director at PNC Bank and focused on marketing PNC’s corporate and investment banking platform to institutional clients with a focus on syndicated loans and asset securitization products.  Previously served as an originator in PNC’s private credit group.

From 2000-2003, Jim was Managing Director at Bank of America with responsibilities consisting of structuring syndicated loan and bond financings for private equity backed buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and refinancings.

Jim earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Louisiana State University and M.B.A in Finance from University of Chicago.