Derek Steven Pilecki

Mr. Derek S.
Pilecki, CFA, MBA, is a Managing Member & Portfolio Manager at Gator Capital Management LLC.
He founded the fimr in 2008.
He currently manages a long/short financials strategy, long-only financials strategy, and various other individual portfolios.
He has managed a private fund for over 11 years.
He launched one mutual fund and took over management of another mutual fund.
From 2002 through 2008, Mr. Pilecki was a member of the Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) Growth Equity Team (Co-Chair of the Investment Committee for the Growth Team and a Portfolio Manager).
Prior to GSAM, he was an Analyst at Clover Capital Management in Rochester, NY and Burridge Growth Partners in Chicago, IL.
He covered the Financials sector at both firms.
Before entering graduate school, he worked at Fannie Mae providing interest rate risk analysis for the company’s mortgage investment portfolio.
He holds an MBA with honors in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago and a BA in Economics from Duke University.
He is also a CFA charterholder.