Chimera Investment Corporation Культура компании

Mr. Matthew J. Lambiase, also known as Matt, has been the President and Chief Executive Officer at Chimera Investment Corporation since August 2007. Mr. Lambiase served as a Managing Director of Structured Products at Annaly Capital Management, Inc. since June 2009 and served as Head of its Business Development. Mr. Lambiase served as an Executive Vice President of Structured Products and Member of the Investment Committee at Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC). He served as Executive Vice President of Structured Products at Annaly Capital Management, Inc. He joined these companies in June 2004. Prior to this, Mr. Lambiase served as a Director in Fixed Income Sales at Nomura Securities International, Inc. Over his 11 year employment at Nomura, he was responsible for the distribution of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities to a wide variety of institutional investors. Mr. Lambiase also served positions at Bear, Stearns & Company as a Vice President in Institutional Fixed Income Sales and a Mortgage Analyst in the Financial Analytics and Structured Transaction Group. He has been a Director of Chimera Investment Corporation since August 2007. He has a Bachelors degree in Economics from The University of Dayton.

Mr. Robert Colligan, CPA has been the Chief Financial Officer at Chimera Investment Corporation since May 16, 2013 and also served as its Secretary and Chief Accounting officer until August 12, 2015. Mr. Colligan has been in accounting and finance for over 20 years. He serves as Managing Director of Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company. He served as Controller of Starwood Capital Group for five years. At Starwood Capital Group, he focused on financial reporting, treasury, tax, operational and strategic initiatives. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Colligan served as Managing Director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Vice President of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in financial reporting, strategy and investor relations roles. He began his career in both audit and national tax at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served from 1993 to 1999. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Colligan holds a Masters in Taxation from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Villanova University.

Mr. Choudhary Yarlagadda has been the Chief Operating Officer at Chimera Investment Corporation since August 2015. Mr. Yarlagadda served as a Managing Director and Head of Structured Products for Annaly Capital Management, Inc. Prior to joining Annaly, he served as a Director in Structured Credit Products at Credit Suisse and also a Vice President in the Fixed Income Mortgage Group at Nomura Securities International, Inc. Mr. Yarlagadda has an MS from the Florida Institute of Technology and BS from the National Institute of Technology.

Mr. Phillip John Kardis, II, is a Partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates LLP). Mr. Kardis has been the Chief Legal Officer of Chimera Investment Corporation since September 2015 and also serves as its Corporate Secretary. His areas of expertise include derivatives, structured products, finance, global capital markets, asset securitization, mortgage banking, consumer credit, private equity and venture capital. Mr. Kardis has a broad range of experience in assisting clients with complex corporate, securities and financing transactions, especially transactions involving mortgage REITS and financial assets (such mortgage loans, servicing rights, auto loans and SBA Loans), including public offerings (debt and equity), private placements, private equity, asset-back secured lending, joint ventures and other investment vehicles, mergers and acquisitions, asset-backed securitizations, going private transactions, REIT conversions and debt offerings. He has represented several Wall Street investment banks, mortgage and specialty auto finance companies, REITs, broker-dealers and a variety of technology companies. Mr. Kardis also advises companies on compliance with Regulation AB and is a frequent speaker on Regulation AB matters. He has acted as a Counsel on public offerings of common and preferred stock offerings for a mortgage REIT, public residential mortgage-backed securities offering for a mortgage REIT and private placements of small-balance commercial mortgage backed securities. Mr. Kardis has represented sellers on numerous mortgage loan purchase agreements and sales of servicing rights, purchaser of mortgage servicing operations in an asset sale; the purchaser in the acquisition of several mortgage companies; and the investor in a private equity investment in an early stage real estate services company, two mortgage companies in public conversions into REIT and the IPO of a mortgage company, formation of a private equity REIT and of a mortgage REIT using an UPREIT structure, lender on revolving credit facilities backed by mortgage servicing rights totaling more than $2 billion, revolving mortgage loan repurchase facilities totaling more than $2 billion and a borrower on a four-year term commercial paper backed revolving credit facility. Prior to this, he practiced in the Washington office of a leading structured finance firm. Prior to entering private legal practice, Mr. Kardis held several positions in government and industry including Senior Advisor and Acting Director at the Trade Compliance Center of the U.S. Department of Commerce and senior positions with Rockwell International and the United State Senate, Committee on the Budget. In addition, he served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Kardis is a Member of United States Courts of Appeal for the Federal and Fourth Circuits, United States Court of International Trade and United States Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice in Bar of District of Columbia and Bar of Virginia. Mr. Kardis received a B.A. degree, Magnum Cum Laude, Special Honors in Zoology & Philosophy from George Washington University in 1985 where he was awarded the Charles E. Gauss Prize, Top Philosophy student; Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Epsilon Delta, Sigma Chi. He also received an M.A. degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University in 1987, an M.A. degree in Economics from George Mason University in 1993 and a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996 where he was given the American Jurisprudence Awards in Constitutional Law and Torts and the Corpus Juris Secundum Award in Torts.