Jeff Jacob

Jeff Jacob is a Senior Managing Director at Marathon, Co-Head of Marathon’s Corporate Credit business, and a Member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Jacob serves as Portfolio Manager for Marathon’s distressed and special situations portfolios. He joined Marathon after eight years with Archview, a credit manager founded in 2009, where he served as CIO and co-Managing Partner since its inception. Prior to founding Archview, he was a founding member and Head of Citigroup’s Global Special Situations Group, a principal investment group managing $3.7 billion in assets in North America, Latin America, and Europe from 2004 to 2008. He was previously Head of Citigroup’s Distressed Debt Trading Group from 1999 to 2004. While at Citigroup, he served on the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodity Management Committee and the Fixed Income Diversity Committee.  Prior to joining Citigroup, he spent seven years at Merrill Lynch where he was Head of Distressed Trading and ran the Southeast Asia Distressed Trading business from Merrill Lynch’s offices in Hong Kong. He holds an M.S. in Finance and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Wisconsin.