SEER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT - Key Persons


Andrew Dominus - Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • General Counsel
Andrew Dominus is General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Seer Capital Management. He has a broad range of transactional and regulatory experience, having spent 12 years at KBC Financial Products (a broker/dealer with at its peak over 1000 employees and offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo) before joining Seer Capital. Mr. Dominus was General Counsel during the last three years of his tenure at KBC FP, responsible for all legal, regulatory and compliance aspects of KBC FP's business. He started his career at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, where his practice focused on securitizations and derivative products. He then worked at UBS supporting their equity derivatives and fixed income securities groups until he left to join DE Shaw & Co., where he supported its equity derivatives group. That group was part of the unit sold by DE Shaw & Co. to KBC Bank in 1999, which then became KBC Financial Products Group.

Andrew Peisch - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Head of Business Development
  • Managing Director
Andrew Peisch is a Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Seer Capital Management and a member of the Firm's Investment Committee. He was most recently Co-Head of Structured Finance Banking at Jefferies & Co. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of Structured Credit Products Banking and Origination for the Americas at Deutsche Bank. He was also previously head of Structured Finance at Merrill Lynch & Co., with postings in New York, London, and Hong Kong and worked in the Mortgage Finance Department at Credit Suisse First Boston before joining Merrill.

Chris Schoen

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager
  • Principal
Chris Schoen is a Principal and Portfolio Manager of Seer Capital Management responsible for all RMBS investments and is a member of the Firm's Investment Committee. He most recently co-headed the Mortgage Trading Group at Credit Suisse with specific responsibilities for Sub-Prime, Second Lien, HELOC, Reverse, and Scratch and Dent Mortgages, as well as oversight of the Loan Financing Group. The Mortgage Trading Group was responsible for the purchase of loans (bidding, due diligence, and settlement) and the disposition of loans through either securitization or whole loan sale. Additionally, Mr. Schoen was responsible for capital markets for SPS (the Credit Suisse non-performing loan servicer) and Lime (a Credit Suisse-owned mortgage originator). Prior to Credit Suisse/DLJ Mr. Schoen worked at Smith Barney, PaineWebber, Prudential Securities, and Deloitte and Touche in similar capacities, including the securitization of tax liens, sub-prime and non-prime auto loans, credit card and lease receivables. Mr. Schoen holds a B.S. from Hampden-Sydney College.

Karen Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Head of Market Strategy and Research

Philip Weingord - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Founder
  • Managing Principal
Philip Weingord is the Managing Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Seer Capital Management, which he founded in 2008. Mr. Weingord has overall management responsibility for Seer Capital, including all investment decisions, strategic planning, and business development for the firm.

Richard d'Albert - Chief Risk Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Principal and Co - Chief Investment Officer
  • Principal, Co - Chief Investment Officer
Richard d'Albert is a Principal, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Chief Risk Officer at Seer Capital Management and co-heads the Firm's Investment Committee. He has had an extensive career working with a broad variety of credit and securitized products. Before joining Seer, Mr. d'Albert was Global Head of Structured Credit at Deutsche Bank, which included the Securitized Products Group, the CLO/CDO Group, ABS Correlation Trading and Longevity Derivatives. Prior to that, Mr. d'Albert was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank's Securitized Products Group, which included Credit and Conduit Products, Special Situations, Principal Trading, and ABS Trading. From 2002 through 2004 he headed the Securitized Products Group for the Americas. He was a member of the Global Credit Trading Management Committee at Deutsche Bank from 2004. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2000, he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and a senior member of the Securitized Products Group. He is a former member of the Management Committee and an Advisory Board member of the American Securitization Forum. Mr. d'Albert holds a B.A. from Williams College.

Richard Kim - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
Richard Kim is the Chief Operating Officer of Seer Capital Management and is a member of the Firm's Investment Committee. Prior to joining Seer Capital in 2008, he was Managing Director in Deutsche Bank's Credit Structuring Group. As part of the Credit Structuring Group, his responsibilities encompassed structuring and marketing distressed structured product investment funds, bank balance sheet CLOs and other asset classes. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in April 2000, Mr. Kim worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Asset Finance Group. Mr. Kim holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College.