Roger Wittlin. San Francisco.
Mr. Wittlin joined Silver Lake in 2007 as a Managing Director to head up Silver Lake's Credit Investment business. He has significant experience in analyzing and managing fixed income investments and is focused on developing the firm’s debt investing strategy. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Wittlin was the lead portfolio manager and group head of Sutter Credit Strategies, an autonomous business unit within Wells Capital Management. Sutter's external assets grew from inception to $3.5 billion from 2002-2007 under Mr. Wittlin's management. Sutter’s investors included various state pension funds, endowments, foundations, and corporations. Mr. Wittlin joined Wells Fargo Bank in 2000 and managed both the bank's high yield team and co-managed its proprietary high yield portfolio before forming the Sutter Credit Strategies business to manage non-proprietary assets. Mr. Wittlin has over 24 years of capital markets experience beginning in 1982 as a member of Lehman Brothers fixed income department. Later, Mr. Wittlin was a vice president in fixed income with the Principal Investment Group at Goldman Sachs, which purchased and structured distressed and sub-performing assets. Mr. Wittlin was also a managing director at Deutsche Bank prior to joining Wells Fargo. Mr. Wittlin received his bachelors degree in journalism from Arizona State University and received masters degrees in both business administration and international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).