Jeffrey Zinn joined Vida Capital, a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners, as managing director of private credit. Zinn will be based in New York and report to David Gussmann, senior managing director of private credit. In this role, Zinn will be responsible for driving strategic business partnerships to support the company’s sourcing, direct lending, esoterics and private credit transactions.
“Jeff brings with him a compelling set of skills to our growing investment team of credit and risk experts. His deep experience and technical background across asset types and structures make him an ideal candidate to support the firm’s private credit strategy,” Gussmann said. “His network and credit-focused experience with institutional investors and consultants will help us continue to grow our platform.”
“Vida has built an impressive team with focused strategies that offer investors compelling investment products. I look forward to supporting the Vida team as we pursue our growth strategy,” Zinn said.
Zinn joins Vida with more than 27 years of experience across capital markets, structured products, specialty finance and fintech lending. Prior to joining Vida, Zinn spent nearly four years as the head of business development for the special assets fund at Flexpoint Ford, a private equity investment firm. Before that, he was head of capital markets and a member of the executive team at ApplePie Capital. He’s also held leadership positions at Jefferies and Bank of America.
