David T. Ellis, CFA is a senior portfolio manager/analyst of Global Investment Advisors (“GIA”). Mr. Ellis is the high yield sector specialist and is responsible for the management of Collateralized Debt Obligations. He is also the credit analyst covering the telecommunications, cable/media and healthcare sectors.
Prior to joining GIA in November 1999, Mr. Ellis was one of two portfolio managers responsible for over $2 billion in high yield assets at J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. (“JPMIM”). Mr. Ellis also successfully initiated an institutional bank loan investment effort that managed over $150 million in bank loan assets. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager at JPMIM, Mr. Ellis was the U.S. credit analyst and Global Credit Sector Head for Telecommunications and Cable/Media. He was responsible for analyzing U.S. companies and advising European and emerging market analysts on U.S. and foreign investments.
Prior to joining JPMIM in 1996, Mr. Ellis was a corporate banker in Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York’s (“MGT”) credit group. He was responsible for analyzing credits and marketing MGT’s credit products to high yield and investment grade clients on the West Coast. He focused on the Telecommunications, Technology, Forest Products, Retail and Utilities industries. Before joining the credit group in 1990, Mr. Ellis held various posts in MGT’s international division covering Benelux and UK companies in the U.S., and prior to that, covering MGT’s affiliate relationships in French Speaking Africa. David received his BA, cum laude from Amherst College in 1983 and spent a semester at Institute d’Etudes European in Paris in 1982.
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