Inside Private Credit, Asset-Based, Secondaries & Specialty Lending

As president and chief investment officer, Tom Briney is responsible for the construction and oversight of multifamily credit funds on behalf of Origin Investments’ affiliate firm, Origin Credit Advisers LLC. He joined Origin Investments in 2011 as vice president of asset management and then as managing director of acquisitions, overseeing real estate portfolio assets. Prior to Origin, Tom underwrote and transacted commercial real estate investments at Equity Office Properties and was a commercial credit analyst at JPMorgan Chase. Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Connecticut. He has 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate sector.

Steve Kavulich is Head of Opportunistic Private Credit at Nomura Capital Management. Steve brings nearly two decades of experience opportunistically investing across the credit markets ranging from performing to distressed assets in private and public markets through direct, secondary and co-investment opportunities. Prior to Nomura, Steve was a senior member of the Direct Private Opportunities team at Blackrock where he sourced and underwrote private market investments. In addition, he served as Chair of the Investment Committee for Blackrock Alternative Advisor’s Co-Investment Business and led the team investing capital out of two drawdown funds and numerous SMAs across both income and opportunistic mandates. While at Blackrock, Steve served as a board observer and member of several Advisory Committees across different investments. Prior to joining Blackrock, Steve was an investment professional at Gates Capital Management, an event driven and special-situations hedge fund, and a desk analyst in the Global Loans and Special Situations Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Steve began his career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers. Steve earned a bachelor’s degree, Cum Laude, from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Andrew Weymann is a client portfolio manager, focused on US private credit. He is responsible for developing the firm’s US private credit offering and acting as a client-facing spokesperson for the investment teams. Prior to joining Man Group in July 2025, Andrew was Director of Business Development at Christofferson, Robb & Company, a hedge fund specialising in liquid financial credit and synthetic risk transfers (SRTs). Before that, he served as Vice President at Investcorp, where he led strategic investments in emerging asset management firms and supported their growth. Andrew began his career as a research analyst at Rock Creek Group, where he was responsible for underwriting the firm’s credit hedge fund investments. He holds a BS in Accounting from the Farmer School of Business at Miami University (Ohio).