Meet the Team
Fixed Income
Marco della Giacoma
Portfolio Manager
Marco della Giacoma is part of the investment team of the Fixed Income and Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) Fund.
Marco joined Tenax in 2017 to manage the Tenax ILS Fund. He has since expanded his responsibilities to the broader liquid fixed income landscape. His main areas of expertise are insurance and the global fixed income markets. Prior to Tenax, Marco worked at Swiss Re in Zurich and London holding different positions and becoming ILS structurer for the European market.
Marco completed his MSc Finance at Durham Business School in 2011 and his MSc International Economics at the Rotterdam Erasmus University in 2010. He studied Economics at Bocconi University where he earned his BSc in 2009. He is also a judo black belt and sailing instructor
Silvia Clarkson
Portfolio Manager
Silviais part of the investment team of the Tenax Fixed Income team.
Silvia joined Tenax Capital in January 2021 as a credit portfolio manager. She began her career in 2007 as a buy-side credit analyst with Pioneer Investments in Dublin. In 2011 she joined Euromobiliare Asset Management in Milan, where she managed corporate bonds funds until 2016. Between 2016 and 2020 Silvia was part of the fund analyst team for the selection of funds across all asset class and strategies for internal mandates and the advisory business, initially for Euromobiliare Asset Management SGR and later for Euromobiliare Advisory SIM.
Silvia holds a master’s degree in Corporate Finance from Bocconi University in Milan and a postgraduate master degree in International Economics and Finance from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Silvia is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder since 2010 and a Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA) since 2020
Tomas Valtas
Fixed Income Analyst
Tomas is part of the Tenax Fixed Income investment team.
Prior to Tenax, Tomas has spent circa 7 years covering European High Yield as a credit analyst. He started his career at Debtwire research in London working as published credit research analyst for almost 2 years. Most recently, Tomas joined from Credit Rubric, a European High Yield data and research platform. Tomas was part of the founding team along with acting as credit analyst, primarily writing and publishing relative value reporting covering primary High Yield market.
He has BSc in Business Finance and Economics from University of East Anglia and is pursuing CFA designation