Peter Aberg

Partner & Co-Founder, Co-CIO - Credit

Peter Aberg co-founded Reverence Capital in June 2013 after spending 28 years at Goldman Sachs including 15 years as a Managing Director or Partner focused primarily on the bank, finance company and payments sectors. The vast majority of Mr. Aberg’s career was spent in the Securities Division, applying the asset-level cash flow analytics used in the asset-backed securities business to strategic advisory engagements and structured portfolio investments. He served as co-head of the Principal Finance Group and FICC Advisory Group in the Securities Division and as co-head of the Specialty Finance practice in the Financial Institutions Group in Investment Banking. He received a BA from Yale in 1981 and an MBA from Wharton in 1983. Mr. Aberg serves on the board of directors for CardWorks, Venerable Holdings (OpCo), Osaic (f/k/a Advisor Group), and Allspring Global Investments, and is an observer on the board of directors for EverBank (f/k/a TIAA Bank). He formerly served as an observer on the board of directors for Diamond Resorts and on the board of directors of Obra Capital (f/k/a Vida Capital).

Josh Swidler

Managing Director, Co-CIO - Credit

Josh Swidler joined Reverence Capital in 2024 and has over 30 years of finance, investing, and capital markets experience. Most recently, he was the Chief Investment Officer at Teamshares, a fintech investing platform, where he headed capital markets activities and facilitated the acquisition of over 80 businesses during his tenure. Prior to Teamshares, he spent 11 years at Elliott Associates. As a Senior Portfolio Manager in Elliott’s London office, he built and ran the European Structured Credit, Real Estate, and Non-Performing Loan businesses investing across CDS, bonds, loans, and direct investments in real estate and related platforms. In his later years at Elliott, he moved back to New York to lead the U.S. Private Financials business. A 14-year veteran of Lehman Brothers, he was a Managing Director in Structured Finance banking, in New York and then London, where he was the Head of Structured Products Origination focusing on various assets and platforms ranging from mortgages to student loans to credit cards. Mr. Swidler graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a degree in Social Studies.

steven herrup

Deputy CIO

Steven Herrup joined Reverence Capital in 2020 and has over 30 years of experience working in specialty finance. Prior to Reverence, he was at Varadero Capital since 2015. At Varadero, he was responsible for expanding the firm’s investments in non-securitized products. Prior to Varadero, Mr. Herrup spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group, where he was a Managing Director, Co-Global Head of Structured Investing and was a member of the Investment Committee within the Special Situations Group. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he ran Structured Capital Markets at Zurich Capital Markets. He began his career at Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust, where he held various positions in Treasury, Capital Markets and Trading from 1993 to 2001. Mr. Herrup received a B.S. in Finance, cum laude from Northeastern University in 1993.

Claudio Phillips

Head of Corporate Credit

Claudio Phillips joined Reverence Capital in 2022 and has over 39 years of trading / investing and asset management experience in the credit / debt markets. From 2011 to 2022, prior to joining Reverence, Claudio was the Managing Principal of MB Global Partners, a New York-based asset management firm investing in credit and special situations markets. Before joining MB Global Partners, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director at The Commonfund from 2006 to 2011, where he was the head of their dedicated distressed funds which accounted for approximately $920 million in assets under management. Mr. Phillips has held various leadership positions including as a Managing Director at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney where he was in charge of all non-European Global Performing Loan (including emerging markets) trading.

Claudio is currently on the Board of Directors of the New America Alliance. He has also been a past President of the Westchester Hispanic Coalition and an appointee to the Westchester County Hispanic Advisory Board. Mr. Phillips was named one of the Top Leaders in Finance by Latino Leaders Magazine in 2015. He graduated with an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.

Ying Wang

Principal, Head of Research

Ying Wang joined Reverence Capital in 2020 and has 13 years of experience in the financial markets. Prior to Reverence, she was a Managing Director and Head of Research at CircleUp, where she led the research and investing framework of CircleUp's Systematic Fund. Previously, she was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the Global Asset Allocation Group at AQR Capital Management from 2016 to 2018, where she managed systematic macro Equity and FX strategies in AQR's 3-Alpha funds with $28 billion in AUM. Prior to AQR, she was a Vice President and Senior Quantitative Researcher at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group and the Quantitative Investment Strategies Group for 6 years. She started her career at Bloomberg where she was a Financial Application Engineer in the R&D Group. Ms. Wang received a B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University in 2009.

Jeff Nabi

Senior Vice President

Jeffrey Nabi joined Reverence Capital in 2024 and has more than 30 years of capital markets experience. Prior to joining Reverence, Mr. Nabi served as Head of Capital Markets for Imperial Fund, where he helped launch the fund’s securitization program, producing 15 deals totalling $4.9 billion in non-qualified mortgage loans. He also supervised day-to-day capital markets as a key member of Imperial’s executive management team, with oversight of warehouse funding relationships and development of key alliances with funding partners, investment banks, and rating agencies. Prior to that, Mr. Nabi served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Capital Markets at education lender Funding U; Managing Director - Debt Capital Markets at Cantor Fitzgerald and held senior positions at bond insurers Assured Guaranty, Ambac and Financial Security Assurance, in addition to positions at Deloitte & Touche and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Nabi received a B.B.A in Accounting and Finance from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Beau Fenske

Vice President, Head of Asset Management and Commercial Real Estate Underwriting

Beau Fenske joined Reverence Capital in 2020 and has over 28 years of underwriting, structuring, and loan management experience. Prior to Reverence, he spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs where he most recently served as Vice President and Head of Asset Management, creating and developing the infrastructure, processes, and reporting regimen to manage the growth and credit quality of a portfolio of over $10 billion of CRE, residential, and consumer loans and warehouse lines in support of the Securities and Investment Banking divisions. Prior to this role, he spent over 15 years originating, underwriting, structuring, and managing commercial real estate loans for the Investment Banking division’s CMBS conduit and balance sheet lending businesses. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Fenske spent several years in the business banking unit of Norwest Bank lending to small and middle-market companies. Mr. Fenske received a BBA in Finance from Baylor University and an MBA from Texas Christian University.

Alexander Rothbard

Senior Associate

Alexander Rothbard joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Rothbard worked at Castlelake L.P. as an Investment Professional focused on commercial and residential real estate debt investments. Mr. Rothbard began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Piper Sandler. Mr. Rothbard earned a B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Nicole Timmens

Senior Associate

Nicole Timmens joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, she was the Real Estate Lead at Teamshares, a fintech startup where she led real estate acquisitions and asset management of the real estate portfolio. Prior to Teamshares, she worked on the origination, underwriting, and closing of CMBS and floating rate loans in Bank of America’s Real Estate Structured Finance group.  Prior to Bank of America, she was at Fitch Ratings, spending time in both the RMBS and CMBS groups. Ms. Timmens received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.

James DeSorbo

Associate

James DeSorbo joined Reverence Capital in 2024. Prior to Reverence, Mr. DeSorbo worked at Citigroup as an Associate on the Non-Agency RMBS Research desk. He has prior experience at Citigroup as a trader in both Non-Agency RMBS and Short-Term Credit. Mr. DeSorbo graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University with a BBA in Applied Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics.

SUSAN YUN

Associate

Susan Yun joined Reverence Capital in 2024. Prior to Reverence, Ms. Yun worked at Nomura as a Global Markets Associate in the Securitized Products Group. Ms. Yun earned a BA in Political Science from Duke University.

Graham Stodolski

Analyst

Graham Stodolski joined Reverence in 2025. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Stodolski worked as a Product Manager at Teamshares and held roles in software engineering and artificial intelligence research. Mr. Stodolski graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Computer Science.

John Wright

Director of Capital Partnering

John Wright joined Reverence Capital in 2024 as a Director of Capital Partnering.  Prior to joining Reverence, Mr. Wright was a Principal and Co-Head of CA Capital Advisory at CA Ventures.  Prior to CA Ventures, Mr. Wright served as Senior Managing Director for Kayne Anderson for more than eleven years, in addition to holding leadership roles at Saybrook Capital, Taylor Investment Advisors, Zweig-Dimenna and Credit Suisse.  Mr. Wright brings more than twenty-five years of capital fundraising experience and a broad network of capital relationships.  Mr. Wright earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Kansas.  

Tony DiNota

Director of Capital Partnering, Credit

Tony DiNota joined Reverence Capital in 2022. Prior to Reverence, Mr. DiNota was a Managing Director of Business Development & Investor Relations at Varadero Capital since 2018. Mr. DiNota has prior experience as the Head of Business Development at Marinus Capital, Director of Capital Introductions at Citigroup in Global Markets Prime Finance, VP of Capital Introductions in Global Markets Financing & Services at Merrill Lynch, and Senior VP at HedgeOp Compliance. Mr. DiNota started his career as a civil and corporate attorney and earned a B.S. in Finance from Boston College and J.D. from New York Law School.

Matt Richards

Head of Investor Relations & Project Management - Credit and Real Estate

Matt Richards joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Richards was a Director at TPG Angelo Gordon and the firm’s Head of Market Intelligence across their credit and real estate strategies. Prior to TPG Angelo Gordon, Mr. Richards was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan in various roles across asset management, investment banking, and commercial banking. Mr. Richards started his career covering U.S. and Hong Kong institutional clients at PIMCO. Mr. Richards received a B.S. in Management & Finance from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Sarf Siddiqui

VP of Finance, Credit

Sarf Siddiqui joined Reverence Capital in 2022. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Siddiqui was a Senior Controller at Colbeck Capital Management, where he managed all aspects of day-to-day accounting for credit funds. Mr. Siddiqui has prior experience as an Assistant Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, where he was responsible for credit / lending, real estate, and NPL private equity portfolios. He started his career at Ernst & Young. Mr. Siddiqui received a B.B.A. in Accounting and Computer Information Systems from Baruch College, City University of New York. Mr. Siddiqui is a New York State licensed CPA.

Wendy Wang

Assistant Controller, Credit

Wendy Wang joined Reverence Capital in 2024. Prior to joining Reverence, Ms. Wang was a Director at Gen II Fund Services, LLC with over 9 years of experience in Private Equity Fund Administration, where she worked on and managed a client service team, building out operational processes for complex structures, and implementation of accounting controls. Ms. Wang received a B.B.A. in Accounting from Baruch College, City University of New York.