Kingsbarn Capital Management, a multi-disciplinary alternative asset manager focused on delivering niche products that help investors best navigate current market conditions, has appointed Jim Fowler as its Chief Investment Officer.
Kingsbarn Capital Management, a multi-disciplinary alternative asset manager focused on delivering niche products that help investors best navigate current market conditions, has appointed Jim Fowler as its Chief Investment Officer (CIO).
Fowler brings more than 20 years of experience in the private and public debt and equity capital markets. As CIO, he will manage two investment funds while also advising on other firm asset management activities.
Prior to joining Kingsbarn, Fowler held executive management positions at three publicly listed financial services companies. Prior to its sale to Citizens Financial Group in November 2021, Fowler was a 20-year senior partner at JMP Group, where he spent the first 10 years of his tenure as a senior equity research analyst and Co-Director of Equity Research covering mortgage finance and specialty finance companies.
During his second decade at JMP, he co-managed a financial services-focused equity hedge fund and managed a credit fund providing senior and junior debt to lower middle market companies. Concurrent with managing these funds, Fowler held executive positions at two JMP-sponsored publicly listed companies: Chairman of the Board of Directors of New York Mortgage Trust and Chief Investment Officer for Harvest Capital Credit. During his tenure at JMP, Fowler was included in the annual “Best on the Street” analyst survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal, ranking second as a stock picker in both the real estate and the diversified financial services categories.
Fowler is a Golden Gate University alumnus.
