Partner, Head of the Private Side Businesses
Silver Point Capital

Adjunct Professor
Columbia Business School
Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business

Michael Gatto was one of the first employees at Silver Point Capital, a credit-focused hedge fund. After joining the firm in April 2002, he became the first non-founding partner in January 2003, and helped grow the business from $120MM of investable capital in 2002 to over $20 billion. Today, he is the head of the firm’s Private Side Businesses.

From 1999-2002, Mr. Gatto worked at Goldman Sachs on the bank loan trading desk and then in the Special Situations Investing Business, where he focused on distressed credit.

Before joining Goldman, he designed and taught credit training programs for banks and investment banks. He taught at some of the world's leading financial institutions, including Citibank, CSFB, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), American Express Bank, Fleet, and Barclays, where he taught courses in global financial centers such as New York, Boston, London, and Singapore, as well as more remote locations, including Bangladesh, Manila, and Cairo. Before becoming a professional credit instructor, he was a credit analyst and Head of Global New Entry Training at Citibank.

Outside of Silver Point, Mr. Gatto is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, where he teaches courses on credit analysis and distressed value & special situation investing.

He received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.