UDaniel Zwirns

In 2015, Dan Zwirn founded Arena Investors, which manages about $4.5 billion in assets with a global team of over 180 employees.¹ Together with affiliate Ceres Life Insurance, Arena forms part of Westaim Corporation (TSXV: WED), an integrated asset management and life insurance provider with equity capital to support up to $10 billion in assets. Arena provides creative solutions for those seeking capital across all corporate, real estate, and structured finance investment areas, at all levels of the capital structure, and in all developed markets, alongside operational capabilities to manage and improve the businesses and assets in which it invests.
 
Before Arena, Dan led or founded several specialty finance firms, including Applied Data Finance (a consumer finance company), North Mill Capital (an asset-based lender), North Mill Equipment (an equipment lessor), and Lantern Endowment Partners (an investment fund). Earlier, with Highbridge Capital Management, he co-founded D.B. Zwirn & Co., growing the special situations firm into a $6 billion global enterprise, and established the Special Opportunities Group at MSD Capital, the private investment firm of Michael Dell.
 
Dan serves as a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution, an executive board member of the University of Pennsylvania Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology and on the board of overseers for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. He previously served on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation, the board of trustees of Barnard College of Columbia University, and the board of trustees of the New York Public Theater.
 
Dan holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.