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Scott Best is a Managing Director of StoneCastle Securities LLC, where he is a partner managing the firm’s Private Credit Trading team. He brings decades of experience in structured and esoteric credit markets and plays a key role in the firm’s secondary trading activities.

Mr. Best spent much of his career at Lehman Brothers, where he founded the firm’s Esoteric Credit Trading business in the early 1990s. and built the desk to command the top market share in private placement and esoteric secondary trading in each of his 13 years running the business at Lehman Brothers trading private placements, credit tenant leases, project finance, infrastructure notes, and structured aircraft, rail and shipping securities. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2002.

Mr. Best joined StoneCastle in 2010, reuniting with former Lehman colleagues to start the firm’s corporate credit trading platform.

Mr. Best earned a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honors from Sheffield City Polytechnic and a Master of Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.