ISI Team

Mark R. Fraker - Sales

Prior to co-founding ISI Capital, LLC in November 1999, Mark was the head of sales in the Emerging Markets Credit Group at Southport Securities, LLC from June 1998 and at Stires, O'Donnell & Co. from October 1995 where he also served as the head of emerging markets corporate bond research. Previously, Mark had been in sales and research in U.S. high-yield bonds from 1989 to 1994 including 4 years at CRT Capital Group. Before 1989, he worked in commercial banking with Bankers Trust Company and Chase Manhattan Bank which included a credit training program in 1982. Mark has B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Christopher S. Dechiario, CFA - Research

Prior to co-founding ISI Capital, LLC in November 1999, Chris was the head of research in the Emerging Markets Credit Group at Southport Securities, LLC from June 1998 and was an analyst at Stires, O'Donnell & Co. starting in August 1996. Chris started his career at Atlantic Capital, an affiliate of the Clarendon Group, from 1983 to 1988 where he became a senior analyst for a $2 billion high-yield bond portfolio. Chris has also worked on a variety of private equity transactions at the Beacon Group, Inc. in Boston. Chris has a B.S. from The Wharton School.

James E. Kjorlien - Sales

Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in August 2009, Jim was Portfolio Manager for Edison Capital in Stamford, CT. Prior to that, Jim was in high yield and distressed sales at CRT Capital Group from 1990 to 2004 and before that in fixed income sales at Dillon, Read, Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers. He has a B.A. from Trinity College and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at UVA.

William A. Featherston - Sales

Bill has over 35 years of sales and management experience in the fixed income markets, initially with larger capital firms--First Boston Corp, E F Hutton, and Swiss Bank Corp.--at which firms his focus was in the investment grade markets. Since moving to CRT Capital Group in 1992, he has been with several other smaller firms with a focus on high yield and distressed bonds in both the taxable and tax exempt space. He joined ISI Capital in August 2010.

John W. Kjorlien - Sales

Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in November 2010, John was a Managing Director-Capital Markets and Head of Private Placements at Aladdin Capital. Prior to that, John was at Citigroup for 16 years where he was most recently a Managing Director in Structured Corporate Finance and had headed the Private Placement business for 5 years before then. In the course of his career John also worked at Shearson Lehman Brothers, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. He has a BA from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Peter H. Kim - Research

Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in April 2007, Peter was an analyst in the Capital Markets Analyst program for the Lehman Brothers Convertibles Research team. Peter has a J.D. from Fordham University and a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University.