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Mr. Frank D.
Gordon is Chief Financial Officer at BlackRock Kelso Advisors LLC and Chief Financial Officer at BlackRock Kelso Capital Corp.
Prior to joining BlackRock Kelso Capital, Mr. Gordon was a member of BlackRock high yield team.
He was primarily responsible for the administration of structured finance entities managed at BlackRock, including compliance monitoring, legal affairs and financial and shareholder reporting.
He was instrumental in launching the Magnetite and BlackRock Senior Income series of CDOs.
Before joining the BlackRock high yield effort, Mr. Gordon was the controller of Anthracite Capital, Inc., a publicly-owned real estate investment trust managed by BlackRock.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 1998, Mr. Gordon was an attorney in the Structured Finance department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
From 1987 to 1990, he was Vice President in the Fixed Income Research department of The First Boston Corporation.
From 1983 to 1986, he was a senior accountant at Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
Mr. Gordon earned a B.S.
in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983, and an M.B.A.
degree, with honors, and a J.D.
degree from the University of Chicago in 1992 and 1994, respectively.
Former positions of Frank D. Gordon
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP provides legal advisory services. Its practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate finance, insurance, tax, labor and employment, political law, private equity, corporate, antitrust, white collar crime, international, regulatory, and legislation. The company was founded by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps in 1948 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/12/1997 |
| First Boston Corp. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/12/1989 |
| BLACKROCK CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORPORATION | Director of Finance/CFO | - |
| ANTHRACITE CAPITAL INC. | Comptroller/Controller/Auditor | - |
| BLACKROCK, INC. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Frank D. Gordon
| University of Pennsylvania | Undergraduate Degree |
| The University of Chicago | Masters Business Admin |
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| Listed companies | 1 |
|---|---|
| BLACKROCK, INC. | Finance |
| Private companies | 5 |
|---|---|
52nd Street Capital Advisors LLC
 52nd Street Capital Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance 52nd Street Capital Advisors LLC (52nd Street Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of BlackrRock, Inc. founded in 2005 by James R Maher and Michael B Lazar. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Finance |
Anthracite Capital, Inc.
 Anthracite Capital, Inc. Real Estate Investment TrustsFinance Anthracite Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company, which invests in commercial real estate assets on a global basis. Its primary activities are investing in high yielding commercial real estate debt and equity. The company focuses on acquiring pools of performing loans in the form of commercial mortgage-backed securities, issuing secured debt backed by CMBS and providing capital for the commercial real estate industry in the form of mezzanine loan financing and equity. Anthracite Capital was founded in November 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Finance |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP provides legal advisory services. Its practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate finance, insurance, tax, labor and employment, political law, private equity, corporate, antitrust, white collar crime, international, regulatory, and legislation. The company was founded by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps in 1948 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
| First Boston Corp. | Finance |
BlackRock Capital Investment Corp
 BlackRock Capital Investment Corp Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock Capital Investment Corp., engages in the traded fund, seeks investment opportunities in middle market companies located in the United States and Canada with revenues of $50 million to $1 billion. The fund targets companies operating in the field of consumer services, technology, distribution, commercial services, health services, retail trade, finance, and transportation. It provides financing in the form of equity, mezzanine and debt investments with an investment size ranging from USD 10 - 50 million. The company was founded on April 13, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Finance |
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