Primary Job Title President & Chief Investment Officer, Clarion Structured Credit Primary Organization 
Clarion Capital Partners
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Robert Klein is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Clarion Structured Credit at Clarion Capital Partners. Mr. Klein has 27 years of experience in investment banking, portfolio management and structured finance. Mr. Klein joins from Prospect Capital Management, where he was the lead portfolio manager for the firm’s CLO investments,
building CLO AUM at two registered vehicles that grew to $1.5 billion in investments. Prior to founding the CLO business at Prospect, Mr. Klein worked at American Capital, Ltd. where he was a Managing Director and led the New York private equity and financial sponsor lending teams, leading numerous debt and equity investments. Prior to American Capital, Mr. Klein worked at American Securities and American Industrial Partners, both active middle-market private equity firms. Mr. Klein began his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions groups of First Boston and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Klein holds a JD with Distinction from Stanford Law School and a BA summa cum laude from Yale College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Klein has been admitted to the California bar (inactive status). He serves on the Board of Trustees of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester and on the Committee for Ancient and Byzantine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a past Professional Fellow of the New York University Center for Law and Business.
