Joyce DeLucca

Director at EssentialProperties

Ms. DeLucca has served as a director since 2018. Ms. DeLucca is a Managing Director at Hayfin Capital Management, LLC. Hayfin is a private investment firm focusing on direct lending, special opportunities, high yield credit, and securitized credit. Ms. DeLucca joined Hayfin in January 2018, when Hayfin acquired Kingsland Capital Management LLC. Kingsland was an investment manager specializing in collateralized loan obligations and leveraged credit that was founded by Ms. DeLucca in January 2005, where she served as Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer. Ms. DeLucca’s career spans 32 years in the debt capital markets, including management of high yield, leveraged loans, distressed and mezzanine assets. Prior to establishing Kingsland, Ms. DeLucca was a Managing Principal at Katonah Capital, an asset manager focusing on leveraged loans and high yield bonds, from 2000 to 2004. Previously, Ms. DeLucca was a Managing Director at Chase Manhattan Bank, where she co-founded Octagon Credit Investors, from 1995 until 1999. Ms. DeLucca was also a Portfolio Manager and Investment Advisor at Fisher Brothers from 1989 to 1995, where she focused on distressed and high yield investing. She began her career as a trader and analyst with Bernstein Macaulay’s high yield bond and mortgage-backed securities divisions, where she was employed from 1986 to 1989. Ms. DeLucca served on the Regulatory and Board Nominating Committees of the Loan Sales and Trading Association from 2006 to 2010. She received a B.S. in Finance from Ithaca College in 1986 and is a CFA charter holder.

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  • Director

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