CFI Partners
Levoyd Robinson co-founded CFIP in 2005. He is responsible for firm-wide management and monitors overall portfolio construction and risk management. Prior to forming CFIP, Levoyd was a Managing Director at Citadel Investment Group, LLC, where he was the Head of Global Private Debt and was responsible for managing teams in the US and London that made mezzanine and special situations debt investments, including high-yield and distressed loans, asset-based and structured financings, and cash and synthetic CLOs and CDOs. He also was responsible for structuring, negotiating, and credit selection for $3.8 billion of cash and synthetic CDOs comprised of leveraged loans, investment grade, and high-yield credit default swaps. Further, he managed activist distressed positions and served on several ad hoc creditor committees. Prior to Citadel, Levoyd was a Senior Managing Director at PPM America in the Special Investment Group. He began his career at First Chicago Corporation, where he ultimately rose to become the Portfolio Manager of its proprietary distressed trading group. Levoyd obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Howard University and earned his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, Investment, and Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Levoyd is a CFA® charterholder. He is very civically engaged and serves on several nonprofit boards, further he is a member of the Federal Reserve’s Bank of Chicago’s Working Group on Financial Markets, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.