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Benjamin Forman is the Founder and Managing Partner of ParaFi Capital. Prior to founding ParaFi in 2018, he spent 10 years at leading alternative investment managers, including KKR and TPG. While at KKR, he served as a Director in the Credit business, investing across a variety of industry sectors and strategies, including distressed special situations, private credit, and opportunistic and liquid credit. Before KKR, he served as a Vice President with TPG's former credit business, Sixth Street Partners, as one of the first investment professionals to join the platform. Earlier in his career, he worked in private equity at Littlejohn & Company and investment banking at Rothschild & Co. He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
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