Giacomo Picco

Head of Capital Solutions
Sound Point Capital

Mr. Picco joined Sound Point in 2014 and is currently Head of Capital Solutions and Portfolio Manager for the Strategic Capital Funds. Mr. Picco serves on the firm’s Strategic Capital Fund Investment Committee, Strategic Capital Fund Valuation Committee and firm Risk Committee. In his role, he focuses on sourcing and structuring specialty lending solutions to companies in need of liquidity or requiring complex financing structures. Prior to joining Sound Point, Mr. Picco was a Partner at KS Management Corp, an event-driven hedge fund. Prior to becoming a Partner, Mr. Picco served as Co-Head of Research. Prior to KS, Mr. Picco was an Associate at The Carlyle Group, where he worked on leveraged buyout transactions. Prior to Carlyle, he worked at Lazard Freres as a banker in their mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Picco serves on the Board of Directors of OmniMax Holdings, Inc. He was also appointed to be non-executive independent Chairman of Seismic Library Enterprises, LLC, by Morgan Stanley. He has chaired and served on compensation, audit and governance committees for a variety of boards for both public and private companies. Mr. Picco serves as a regular guest lecturer specializing in structured lending at Columbia Business School.

Mr. Picco earned a B.A. in History from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.