Keri Findley is the Founder and CEO of Tacora Capital, an investment manager specializing in asset-based lending opportunities in specialty finance and insurance. She founded Tacora in 2022, securing a $250 million investment from renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel. She takes pride in helping young entrepreneurs grow their startups by providing loans to youngish companies as part of the venture capital ecosystem. Keri has over two decades of experience in structured credit investing at leading firms. Prior to launching Tacora, she ran the structured credit portfolio for Third Point LLC, the multi-billion hedge fund founded and run by Dan Loeb, where she was the first woman and the youngest person to be made partner at the firm.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
EARLY CAREER
Keri joined Third Point LLC in 2009 to start and build its structured credit business. She was the first woman and the youngest person to be made partner at Third Point.
She was an analyst at EOS Partners, an alternative investment firm, and D.B. Zwirn & Co., a special situations investment firm spun off from Highbridge Capital Management.
She began her career at Morgan Stanley.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
She has been featured in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWire, and TechCrunch.