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Jonathan Ludwig is currently a Vice President engaged in a number of early stage ventures. He
is building a social ratings and feedback app, Smirk. He is also designing the
core protocol and token model for Pack Technologies, a decentralized expert
network. Lastly, he is using his deep experience in credit analysis and investing
to help startups focused on automated and AI-driven investing with product
research and development. Previously, Ledwig worked as a senior analyst
in Barclays’ Distressed and
Special Situations Trading group , a part of the Fixed Income Credit Trading
business. Ludwig is responsible for analyzing distressed, stressed, or recovering
credits and other special situations across sectors and where he was
responsible for making investment recommendations in securities of distressed,
stressed or recovering credits. He was a generalist working across sectors and
across the entire capital
structure. He was previously an Prior to Barclays he was investment banker
at Evercore and Bank of
America Merrill Lynch, advising on restructuring and
capital raising transactions.
Example transactions include the merger of Verso Paper and NewPage
Holdings and related exchange offers, Sara Lee’s corporate reorganization and
the spin-off of D.E. Master Blenders 1753, and CorEnergy’s conversion to an
infrastructure REIT. Before that, Ludwig he also traded a variety of securitized
products on Citi’s Mortgage Trading mortgage trading desk. He has a B.S. (cum laude) from Cornell
University, where he majored in Computer Science and Electrical Engineeringcomputer science and electrical engineering,
and an M.B.A. ( with Honors) honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of
of Business.

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