Nicholas
Zissis

Current Company:

BBAM Aircraft Leasing & Management

Title:

SVP, Head of Capital Markets

Education (SMU specific):

Cox - Finance Major & BA - Economics

Career Background:

After graduating SMU, I joined the Leverage Finance Group at Jefferies in NYC. I spent over one year at Jefferies before joining BBAM and moving to their Dublin, Ireland office. I've been with the company for seven years now and spent time in the Dublin and San Francisco offices before we opened the Dallas office in 2022. BBAM is an alternative asset manager that focuses on leasing commercial aircraft. We currently have ~$18b of aviation assets under management.

What am I doing – describe your current role and objectives:

I currently lead the Capital Markets group at BBAM which is responsible for raising both debt financing at the asset level as well as institutional equity capital for our private equity vehicles. The majority of the Capital Markets team is based in Dallas.

Connections trying to make:

Interested in connecting with SMU alumni in both my field of focus as well as adjacent industries.