August 31, 2015
Company Name: GCA Savvian Corporation (TSE 1st Section: 2174) Representative Director: Akihiro Watanabe Contact Person: Masaya Kato, Leader, IR office Phone: +81‐3‐6212‐7100 (rep)
Reidan A. Cruz Joins GCA Savvian as a Managing Director
GCA Savvian Corporation is pleased to announce that Reidan A. Cruz has joined the firm as a Managing Director of the Private Funds Group at GCA Savvian Advisors, LLC. He will be based in the firm’s New York office. Reidan brings over 20 years of institutional capital markets experience focused on advising general partners, institutional investors and corporate issuers on capital raising strategies and investment opportunities.
Prior to GCA Savvian, Reidan was a Managing Director in the Investment Solutions division of The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager. Before joining Carlyle, Mr. Cruz was a Director of Investor Relations and Sales at KRG Capital, a middle market buyout firm. Previously, Reidan was a Partner at Probitas Partners, a global alternative investments placement agent and solutions provider where he worked for over a decade. Prior to Probitas, he spent eight years at Merrill Lynch in its Private Equity Fundraising Group. During his career, Reidan has been involved in numerous successful capital raising efforts for a diverse set of alternative investment strategies including private equity, credit, real assets, multi‐manager, and hedge funds. Reidan began his career at JP Morgan in its Emerging Markets Operations and Technology Group. He earned his BBA from Hofstra University and his MBA from Pace University.