Jeff Johnston, Wells Fargo

Jeff Johnston, CFA, is the Head of Subscription Finance and is a Managing Director in the Asset-Backed Finance and Securitization group in Wells Fargo Securities. Mr. Johnston manages the Subscription Finance team which provides lending facilities to private equity style funds and is responsible for the origination, structuring and monitoring of these facilities for the institutional clients of Wells Fargo. Previously, Mr. Johnston ran the Origination group within Subscription Finance and is responsible for creating the team within ABF in 2010. Mr. Johnston was previously an Officer and portfolio manager for Structured Asset Investors, LLC and Structured Credit Partners, LLC, a wholly owned registered investment advisor of Wells Fargo when he was responsible for the portfolio and workout of legacy structured products for the bank, including cash and synthetic ABS and CRE CDO’s, total return swaps and RMBS positions. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Johnston worked at Bank of America for seven years largely in their Global Structured Products group working on securitizations and financings for a variety of different asset classes. Mr. Johnston is a CFA charterholder and received a BA from the University of South Florida in Physics, and is currently the Chairman of the Fund Finance Association, a global industry association for constituents in the fund finance space.