400 Capital Management Announces New Hires

NEW YORK, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 400 Capital Management ("400CM"), a structured credit investment manager that recently entered its fifth year managing the Firm's credit focused funds, announced today new additions to its investment and operations team. 

"The opportunity set in the credit markets and the growth of our business has enabled us to attract highly experienced investment and operations professionals, and these new additions further our goal of building a differentiated institutional asset manager in the structured credit sector," said Chris Hentemann, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of 400 Capital Management.

Hentemann, a 23-year veteran of the securitized credit markets, established 400 Capital Management in October 2008.  The firm actively invests in the credit markets and focuses specifically on residential and commercial mortgage and consumer asset-back securities.

The new additions include Chi Lee, who joined as a director for structured credit and CLO strategies. Lee is responsible for the sourcing, analysis, and structuring of CLO's, structured credit and related derivatives opportunities.  Prior to joining 400CM, Chi held roles at Navigant Consulting, UBS Securities, Prudential Securities and Bank of America Securities where he developed and advised on credit derivative structuring, modeling and analysis.

Kara Bingham Regan is the new director of legal and compliance.  Previously, Kara was Chief Compliance Officer at Sire Management Corporation, a New York investment management firm.

Edward Lee joined the firm as a director for residential credit and whole loan trading and is responsible for sourcing and structuring loan and mortgage origination and trading opportunities.  Before 400CM, Ed spent several years trading residential whole loans for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Yehuda Graber is the new director for enterprise analytics development and is responsible for design and integration of the firm's various proprietary and third-party analytic, operations and accounting systems.  Prior to joining 400CM, Yehuda designed and implemented proprietary and third-party analytic systems for Royal Bank of Scotland.

ABOUT 400 Capital Management LLC
400 Capital Management is a structured credit asset management company, founded in 2008 by Chris Hentemann who was previously Global Head of Structured Products at Banc of America Securities. The firm's flagship fund, the 400 Capital Credit Opportunities Fund, invests across residential and commercial mortgage backed securities and other asset backed debt. In addition to the flagship fund the firm manages separate accounts for its investor base, which includes institutional investors, high net worth individuals, family offices, foundations and insurance companies. 400 Capital employs 19 people, is based in New York City and currently manages approximately $700m.

SOURCE 400 Capital Management