Full Name
Harlan Cherniak
Job Title
Head of Infrastructure Debt and IG Debt - Americas
Company
Macquarie Asset Management
Speaker Bio
Harlan is Head of Infrastructure and Investment Grade Credit for the Americas.
Harlan has more than 20 years of institutional principal investing experience across the global infrastructure landscape. He joined Macquarie after serving as Chief Business Officer at The Forest Road Company, a leading specialty and incentive tax credit finance business. Harlan led several key strategic initiatives and was responsible for the development of Forest Road’s renewable energy and asset-based finance platform with a strategic and targeted focus on distributed generation.
Before that, he served as the Co-Head of the Americas Special Situations strategy at KKR Inc, responsible for helping build and lead the special situations strategy across North America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to KKR,
Harlan held several senior investment and portfolio management roles, with experience that included investment banking, private equity, and investment management.
He currently serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Board of Directors for the Youth Renewal Fund, the largest network of schools across the socioeconomic periphery in Israel, as well as on the Board of Advisors for the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harlan holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harlan has more than 20 years of institutional principal investing experience across the global infrastructure landscape. He joined Macquarie after serving as Chief Business Officer at The Forest Road Company, a leading specialty and incentive tax credit finance business. Harlan led several key strategic initiatives and was responsible for the development of Forest Road’s renewable energy and asset-based finance platform with a strategic and targeted focus on distributed generation.
Before that, he served as the Co-Head of the Americas Special Situations strategy at KKR Inc, responsible for helping build and lead the special situations strategy across North America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to KKR,
Harlan held several senior investment and portfolio management roles, with experience that included investment banking, private equity, and investment management.
He currently serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Board of Directors for the Youth Renewal Fund, the largest network of schools across the socioeconomic periphery in Israel, as well as on the Board of Advisors for the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harlan holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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