Ricardo De Armas

Mr. De Armas joined Castlelake in 2016 and is part of the European Commercial Real Estate team, focused on originating, underwriting and managing investment opportunities. Mr. De Armas has also served in roles within Castlelake’s Workouts, Asset-Backed Direct Lending and Special Situations teams. Prior to joining Castlelake, Mr. De Armas held a senior investment role at an opportunistic family office, where he focused on deep value investments, restructuring and financial advisory. Prior to that, Mr. De Armas was a principal at a private investment firm, where he focused on special situations investments in emerging markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. De Armas was an associate with Citigroup in the Latin American investment banking group in New York, where he advised companies in a wide range of industry sectors on financial and strategic matters and a financial analyst and cost manager at Procter & Gamble in Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. De Armas received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Universidad Metropolitana in business administration. Mr. De Armas is a native Spanish speaker.