Evan Ratner

Evan is a portfolio manager and the head of research at Chatham Asset Management.
Ratner has had a 30-year career in finance, beginning as a financial analyst in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking group focusing on financial institutions. He then joined DLJ/Credit Suisse, where he worked 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, 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 joining Chatham in 2009.

Ratner earned an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1991 and a B.A. in economics from Columbia College in 1985. In addition to his board service for MMC, he is a director of R.R. Donnelley & Sons.