Robert Kricheff is a senior vice president and portfolio manager at Shenkman Capital Management. Previously he was a managing director and head of the Americas high-yield sector strategy at Credit Suisse, where he spent more than 25 years in leveraged finance. He has performed credit analysis in a range of industries and worked on emerging market corporates, bonds, loans, preferred stocks and credit default swaps. He has also run strategy and overseen portfolio analytics. Kricheff is the author or co-author of "A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance-Credit Analysis for Bonds and Bank Debt," "The Role of Credit Default Swaps in Leveraged Finance Analysis," "How to Analyze and Use Leveraged Finance Bonds for Project Finance" and the upcoming "Data Analytics for the Corporate Debt Markets." He contributed to "High Yield Bonds: Market Structure, Valuation, and Portfolio Strategies." A graduate of New York University, he holds an M.Sc. in financial economics from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.