Tom Ritchie '94
Managing Director
Credit Suisse Group

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"The Yale School of Management immensely broadened my professional horizons. Yale SOM both sharpened my finance skills and enhanced my understanding of how business organizations succeed. I continue to draw heavily on my Yale SOM experience. The school took me from being a narrowly focused analyst to a far more well rounded professional. Yale SOM gave me the tools to compete in what is an increasingly complex and global marketplace."

Tom Ritchie is a managing director at the Credit Suisse Group based in New York. He is head of North American financial institutions debt capital markets. Mr. Ritchie and his group are responsible for origination, structuring and execution of funding and capital transactions for North American banks, insurance, and specialty finance companies. The team advises the firm's largest financial institution clients on navigating the new regulatory landscape and serves as the interface between them and the capital markets. He also sits on Credit Suisse's asset-backed securities oversight committee.

Since joining Credit Suisse in 2000, Mr. Ritchie has held a number of positions in their fixed income division including derivative structuring and marketing. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in structured products sales. Mr. Ritchie began his career at the Boston Financial Group, a real estate investment bank, in 1990.

Mr. Ritchie serves on the advisory board of the Saint Joseph School, an open enrollment K-8 school located in the Bronx, New York.

He holds a BS from Cornell University and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management. Mr. Ritchie is married with three children and lives in Connecticut.