Robert McCarthy is a partner responsible for sourcing and managing special situations investments for the Spinnaker Capital funds in Asia and Eastern Europe, a member of the Global Investment Committee, and chairman of the boards of directors of the Spinnaker Capital Funds. Prior to joining Spinnaker in 2000, he was a founding director of the emerging markets division of Morgan Grenfell in 1990. Thereafter he became a director of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and managed the debt backbook of the emerging markets division, and then as a director of Deutsche Bank he ran the illiquid debt proprietary trading book of the emerging markets proprietary trading division until the spring of 1999. From 1987-1990 he traded Latin American bank loans at Libra Bank in New York. He holds an MBA from Yale School of Management, and a master’s degree in Medieval History from Columbia University.