Key Takeaways
- • ICG appoints Adam Gross and Anne-Marie Peterson as Managing Directors within its North American Private Debt team, based in New York, expanding the global alternative asset manager's credit platform capabilities.
- • Adam Gross brings 14 years of institutional financing experience from Barclays, where he led Financial Sponsor Coverage for large-cap and middle-market private equity clients, with prior roles at Bear Stearns and Accenture.
- • Anne-Marie Peterson contributes over 20 years of investment experience, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Debt Advisory at Baird, with previous leveraged finance and sponsor-backed lending expertise at KeyBank, Credit Suisse, and Lehman Brothers.
- • The hires represent continued expansion of ICG's North American private debt business and follow recent additions across both the private debt and liquid credit sides of the business.
- • ICG, a $127 billion AUM global alternative asset manager operating from over 20 locations, is scaling its credit platform ahead of further planned senior additions.
Summary
ICG, the global alternative asset manager with $127 billion in assets under management, has strengthened its North American Private Debt team with the appointment of two senior Managing Directors to its New York office. Adam Gross and Anne-Marie Peterson join the firm as part of a broader build-out of ICG's global credit platform, signaling the firm's commitment to expanding its private debt capabilities in North America.
Adam Gross joins from Barclays, where he spent 14 years focused on institutional relationships and large-cap to middle-market private equity financing. Most recently, he held the title of Managing Director within Barclays' Financial Sponsor Coverage team, where he managed relationships with major private equity sponsors. His career also includes experience at Bear Stearns and Accenture, providing a deep institutional banking and advisory background relevant to sponsor-backed transactions.
Anne-Marie Peterson brings more than two decades of investment management and leveraged finance expertise. She joins ICG from Baird, where she served as Managing Director and Head of Debt Advisory, advising both sponsor-backed and corporate borrowers. Her earlier career includes significant roles in leveraged finance at KeyBank—where she focused on middle-market sponsors—as well as structured credit experience at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, positions that have exposed her to both investment-grade and sub-investment-grade credit cycles.
Brian Spenner, Head of North American Credit at ICG, emphasized that the new Managing Directors' "strong relationships and depth of experience will be hugely valuable as we continue to scale our North American private debt business." The appointments follow a series of recent senior hires across both the private debt and liquid credit divisions, with the firm signaling additional hiring planned in the near future. These moves position ICG to deepen its origination capacity and sponsor relationships in the North American middle-market and large-cap private debt landscape, where sponsor-backed leveraged finance remains a core growth driver for alternative credit managers.
Adam Gross joins from Barclays, where he spent 14 years focused on institutional relationships and large-cap to middle-market private equity financing. Most recently, he held the title of Managing Director within Barclays' Financial Sponsor Coverage team, where he managed relationships with major private equity sponsors. His career also includes experience at Bear Stearns and Accenture, providing a deep institutional banking and advisory background relevant to sponsor-backed transactions.
Anne-Marie Peterson brings more than two decades of investment management and leveraged finance expertise. She joins ICG from Baird, where she served as Managing Director and Head of Debt Advisory, advising both sponsor-backed and corporate borrowers. Her earlier career includes significant roles in leveraged finance at KeyBank—where she focused on middle-market sponsors—as well as structured credit experience at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, positions that have exposed her to both investment-grade and sub-investment-grade credit cycles.
Brian Spenner, Head of North American Credit at ICG, emphasized that the new Managing Directors' "strong relationships and depth of experience will be hugely valuable as we continue to scale our North American private debt business." The appointments follow a series of recent senior hires across both the private debt and liquid credit divisions, with the firm signaling additional hiring planned in the near future. These moves position ICG to deepen its origination capacity and sponsor relationships in the North American middle-market and large-cap private debt landscape, where sponsor-backed leveraged finance remains a core growth driver for alternative credit managers.
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