Mr. Baffico is Managing Partner & CEO of Four Wood Capital Partners LLC, a yield-oriented investment management firm. Prior to founding Four Wood Capital Partners in 2011, he had been a senior leader in financial services for more twenty years across investment management and merchant banking, holding executive management positions at firms including Guggenheim Partners and BlackRock. At Guggenheim Investments (2010-2011), Mr. Baffico was Senior Managing Director & Head of US Retail, overseeing all aspects of the investment management and distribution businesses, responsible for more than $27 billion in assets under management and or supervision. Formerly, he spent more than a decade (1998-2010) at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he worked in various senior leadership capacities across sales, marketing, portfolio management, product development and capital markets.
Mr. Baffico is SEC Series 7 and FINRA Series 24 and 63 registered and has a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin.