Dermot Murphy is a Managing Director at Atalaya and serves as the firm’s Head of Asset Management. Prior to joining Atalaya, he was a Co-Founder and Partner of TTM Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on acquiring and lending against portfolios of financial and other assets, where he was responsible for Asset Management and Operations. Previously, Dermot worked at Highbridge/Zwirn Capital Management as a Vice President with oversight of all asset management functions for the Assets group where he managed credit reporting and credit administration and led the workout management for “problem” assets for the Assets Group. Prior to Highbridge/Zwirn Capital Management, he was at Hudson Castle Group (formerly IBEX Capital Markets), an independent structured finance advisory company specializing in the management of asset-backed lending vehicles where he was responsible for all aspects of conduit operations, treasury and credit administration for five asset backed commercial paper conduits with commitments in excess of $8 billion. Dermot holds a B.Comm in Accounting and an MBS, both from University College Dublin, Ireland, and is a CFA charterholder.