Clayton DeGiacinto

Clayton DeGiacinto is the Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Axonic Capital. Prior to forming Axonic, Mr. DeGiacinto was the Head of Mortgage Trading for Tower Research Capital LLC. Mr. DeGiacinto was a Vice President in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities group at Goldman Sachs & Co. with responsibility for the hybrid and adjustable rate mortgage trading businesses in both primary and secondary markets. Mr. DeGiacinto’s duties at Goldman included the securitization and retention of levered credit risk and convexity risk backed by adjustable rate and negatively amortizing residential mortgages. He was also responsible for running the RMBS credit book for all prime, alt-A and negatively amortizing structures. Mr. DeGiacinto received his MBA in Finance and Statistics from the Wharton School of Business in 2002. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army in the 25th Infantry Division (Hawaii) from 1995 to 2000 after completing the U.S. Army Ranger School, Airborne School and Air Assault Course. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1995.