James K. Hunt, Chief Executive Officer & CIO
James K. Hunt is CEO and CIO at THL Credit Group. Mr. Hunt was most recently Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Bison Capital Asset Management, LLC. Mr. Hunt co-founded Bison Capital in 2001. He is the former President of SunAmerica Corporate Finance and Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Investments, Inc. (subsequently, AIG SunAmerica). At SunAmerica, Mr. Hunt was responsible for high yielding investments including private placements, acquisition financing, term loans and portfolio purchases, structured finance and corporate acquisitions. Mr. Hunt’s asset portfolio was in excess of $8 billion, with total investments of more than $19 billion during his tenure. Investments were partially made through five CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) exceeding $3.5 billion. He was President and CEO of the Anchor Pathway Funds and SunAmerica Series Trust with assets exceeding $26 billion. For SunAmerica, Mr. Hunt acquired First City Texas Leasing in 1991, Southeast Bank Leasing in 1993 and Imperial Premium Finance in 1994 and served as the senior officer managing these finance companies. Mr. Hunt joined SunAmerica in 1990 from the Davis Companies, a private equity investment firm, where he was responsible for acquisitions. Previously, he worked at Citicorp for over 14 years, where he held a variety of leveraged lending, credit and finance positions, culminating in the role of Senior Credit Officer and Vice President/ Area Head for the Far West U.S. leveraged lending group. At Citicorp, Mr. Hunt also had responsibilities for various workout transactions and the Western asset based lending group. During his tenure at Citicorp, Mr. Hunt served on assignments in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Jakarta and Los Angeles. Mr. Hunt serves on the Board of Directors of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS) and Primus Guaranty Ltd, LLC. (NYSE: PRS), Mr. Hunt is a former Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Financial Pacific Leasing, LLC, formerly Lead Trustee for Falcon Financial (Nasdaq: FLCN), a former member of the Board of Directors of CLS Worldwide Services, LLC, GTS Holdings, Inc., Metagenics, Inc, Helinet Aviation Services, LLC and Mobile Storage Group.
Mr. Hunt earned his B.B.A. in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Graduate School of Business.