Podcast: Why investors should increase allocations to private debt and which strategies are winning?
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CEO Zach Lewy tells PDI Editor Andy Thomson why a local approach offers unique advantages for private lenders in Europe
Private credit has grown tremendously in recent years with the top fundraisers collecting $1.3 trillion in capital over a five-year period, according to our latest PDI 100 rankings. Arrow Global’s CEO Zach Lewy tells PDI Editor Andy Thomson why he expects the asset class to continue to increase its market share, especially in Europe, where several factors contribute to a favourable climate for private lenders.
Zach Lewy
CEO, CIO, Fund Principal
Zach has more than 25 years of executive experience in investment management and asset servicing. He founded Arrow Global in 2005 and has since led the business as Group CEO and CIO, transforming it into a leading Pan-European investment manager specialising in private credit and real estate. Under Zach’s leadership, Arrow manages more than €110 billion of serviced assets across Western Europe and generates alpha across alternative asset classes, including opportunistic credit, real estate, and lending.
Zach has supervised over 3,000 deals at Arrow and plays a key role as lead Principal in Arrow’s fund manager. Prior to founding Arrow, he was an Officer of Sallie Mae, a Director at Vertex (the BPO division of United Utilities), and a Founder and Executive Director of 7C (a U.K. BPO company acquired by Vertex). He has also served as Chair of the U.K. Debt Buyers Association and the Chair of SCOR. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Zach graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics with Honours and a Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics with Honours.