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Mr. Pittson is the President and Chief Investment Officer of OFSAM (the parent company of OFS), which he co-founded in 2001. Mr. Pittson has over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, senior and mezzanine lending, structured finance, loan workouts and loan portfolio management. Prior to founding OFSAM, Mr. Pittson spent the majority of his career at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and its affiliates. During 1997 and 1998 Mr. Pittson managed CIBC World Markets’ U.S. loan portfolio as the head of U.S. Credit Capital Markets, where he was central to the development and execution of a fundamental restructuring of CIBC’s loan origination activities.
From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Pittson was also a member of various core operating committees at CIBC including the U.S. Credit Committee, the New Initiatives Committee, the Global Finance Committee, the U.S.A. Management Committee and the U.S. Underwriting Committee. As a founding manager of CIBC’s leveraged buyout business in the mid 1980s, Mr. Pittson focused on building the middle market, agented transaction business. Mr. Pittson holds a B.S. in Economics and Finance from Rutgers University. | 