Kevin Smithies

Stone Harbor Investment Partners LLC (Stone Harbor) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Peter Wilby in 2006 and was acquired in 2022 by Virtus Partners, Inc., a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partner, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS), from SHIP Capital Partners LP. Stone Harbor provides portfolio management services to a wide variety of US and non-US institutional accounts. In addition, the firm is the investment adviser or sub-adviser to various pooled investment vehicles including US registered investment companies (open-end and closed-end funds), collective investment trusts, private funds and registered offshore funds such as Irish UCITS and Irish qualifying investor funds.

J. Crew Group, Inc. sells women, men, and children’s apparel, shoes, and accessories. The company operates retail and outlet stores, and catalog business. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.