Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization Heyday
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Website www.burfordcapital.com/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Prior to its acquisition by Burford, Mr. Gerchen co-founded and was CEO of Gerchen Keller Capital, which grew to $1.3 billion in assets under management in three years.
Before co-founding Gerchen Keller, Mr. Gerchen was a portfolio manager at Alyeska Investment Group, a Chicago-based market neutral hedge fund, where he specialized in risk
arbitrage and event driven investing.
He has also worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Company in the Industrials and Natural Resources Groups, focusing primarily on the transportation, metals and mining, paper and forest products, and regulated power industries.
Mr. Gerchen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University and received his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Association of Law and Business.
