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Churchill Asset Management expands finance and operations team

Churchill Asset Management (Churchill), a majority-owned affiliate of Nuveen focussed on originating, underwriting and managing middle market senior loan investments, has added Marissa Short and Robert Lin to its finance and operations team, which is led by Shai Vichness, Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer.

The appointments are effective immediately.
 
“The collective talent, leadership and industry experience that Robert and Marissa bring will greatly enhance our ability to deliver a growing array of investment options to our investors and to meet the needs of our expanding platform. On behalf of all of us at Churchill, I welcome them both to our team,” says Vichness.
 
Short joins Churchill as Vice President of Finance with thirteen years of financial service experience. Prior to Churchill, she was a senior manager in the Wealth and Asset Management Practice at Ernst and Young LLP, where she was responsible for the planning, implementation and completion of financial statement audits for top tier SEC and non-SEC clients.
 
Lin joins Churchill as Vice President of Operations, having worked most recently at Ivy Hill Asset Management, a wholly-owned portfolio company of Ares Management. At Ivy Hill, he was responsible for surveillance, analytics and financial modelling of CLOs, leveraged facilities and a public business development company. Prior to Ivy Hill, Lin worked at American Capital, where he developed analytics and conducted surveillance on various types of loan funds.
 
Churchill is part of the Nuveen Private Markets platform that oversees more than USD60 billion of investments on behalf of TIAA and other institutional investors. The firm is led by a senior investment team that has worked together for over a decade and has deep experience in middle market lending, averaging over 25 years of experience. To date, the Churchill team has collectively invested over USD8.8 billion in middle market senior loans across more than 550 transactions.
 

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