David Lyon has 27 years’ industry experience and nine with Neuberger Berman where he is a managing director and head of capital solutions. He is a member of the capital solutions, strategic capital, and private debt investment committees. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman in 2014, he was the director of research at Ellis Lake Capital, an event-driven credit hedge fund based in New York. Before Ellis Lake, David was one of three professionals responsible for the day-to-day management of the Credit Opportunities Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of credit and equity investments at D. E. Shaw. There, he was also responsible for the private equity efforts in the Credit Opportunities Group and sat on several public and private company boards. Before that, he was a managing director at The Cypress Group, a $3.5 billion private equity fund, where he was a member of the investment committee. Prior to Cypress, he was one of five original professionals at Och-Ziff Capital Management and worked in the mergers & acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs. He earned a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
