Michael Camp
Co-founder
Mr. Camp has over 25 years of experience in the financial markets. Before establishing Northwest Criterion Asset Management, Mr. Camp was a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch. Before that, he was Head of Institutional Fixed Income Options Trading at PaineWebber, where he managed a team of traders, maintained a proprietary account and oversaw the development of software trading systems for options and proprietary trading. Mr. Camp has received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and master's degrees in mathematics and statistics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Columbia University. Mr. Camp has taught statistics and probability courses at Columbia University and Hunter College. He has been quoted in BusinessWeek.
eugene Kirkwood
fixed income portfolio manager
Gene Kirkwood has over 39 years of experience in fixed income markets, most recently as a senior portfolio manager at Western Asset Management. Gene was responsible for managing separately managed accounts that were invested in intermediate and core strategies. He served on the Western Asset Shadow Investment Committee and was a member of the Broad Market team. He has experience in Investment Grade securities, High Yield and Emerging Market Debt and Preferred stock. He has produced Investment Policy Statements and developed a risk model based on credit and interest rates. Prior to Western Asset, Gene was an institutional salesperson for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Printon Kane Group.